Are there any successful tech non-profits?

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I'm curious if there are any technology based non-profits that are cater to direct consumers where their primary business is a website/web business. The biggest one I can think of is Wikipedia; they are successful and have a very popular set of websites. Mozilla is another successful non-profit, but its primary business is not a website but a web application (Firefox). I'm not sure if Patreon is a non-profit or community benefit corporation. Do you know any others?

softwaredoug · Accepted Answer

The Internet Archive http://archive.orgSignal - http://signal.org

sarthakjshetty · Answer

Arguably one of the most profitable non-profits of all time: Stanford Research Institute, with a revune of $540 million (2014 figure)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International

dmlittle · Answer

Lichess - https://lichess.org/

mtmail · Answer

If wikipedia counts, then openstreetmap is similar.

tiffanyh · Answer

Ghost (~$5M annual revenue).https://ghost.org/about/

sonofacorner · Answer

Not sure if Our World in Data (https://ourworldindata.org/) qualifies to the type of non-profit you're asking about.But they've built an amazing resource to learn more about the world.

scripta · Answer

https://free.law/Among its other achievements, the Freelaw Project was instrumental in the push for recent bi-partisan legislation, signed by Pres. Biden, in the realm of ethics reform for the judicial branch.

MacsHeadroom · Answer

Here's a list of 600+ of the largest tech non-profits https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofits/Some of my favorites which haven't been mentioned yet:f-droid.orgcalyxinstitute.orgtorproject.org

20after4 · Answer

I'm not sure Mozilla counts as they are a for-profit corp owned by a non-profit. But AFAIK the majority of their activity falls under the for-profit corporation.

pirate787 · Answer

This isn't totally consumer but its successful techhttps://skytruth.org/

guywithahat · Answer

Patreon is for-profit as far as I can tell, givesendgo.com is a nonprofit though

Are there any successful tech non-profits?

The Internet Archive http://archive.org
Signal - http://signal.org

Arguably one of the most profitable non-profits of all time: Stanford Research Institute, with a revune of $540 million (2014 figure)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International

Lichess - https://lichess.org/

If wikipedia counts, then openstreetmap is similar.

Ghost (~$5M annual revenue).
https://ghost.org/about/

Not sure if Our World in Data (https://ourworldindata.org/) qualifies to the type of non-profit you're asking about.
But they've built an amazing resource to learn more about the world.

https://free.law/
Among its other achievements, the Freelaw Project was instrumental in the push for recent bi-partisan legislation, signed by Pres. Biden, in the realm of ethics reform for the judicial branch.

Here's a list of 600+ of the largest tech non-profits https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofits/
Some of my favorites which haven't been mentioned yet:
f-droid.org
calyxinstitute.org
torproject.org

I'm not sure Mozilla counts as they are a for-profit corp owned by a non-profit. But AFAIK the majority of their activity falls under the for-profit corporation.

This isn't totally consumer but its successful tech
https://skytruth.org/

Patreon is for-profit as far as I can tell, givesendgo.com is a nonprofit though