OC Foundation is proud to be the financial and legal home of Kola Nut Collaborative and 482 more groups

OC Foundation offers nonprofit status + fundraising + money management software to aligned groups.

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Discover 483 Collectives making an impact in mutual aid, civil tech, arts & culture, climate and more.

The Process

Infographic showing the steps: Apply, then meet us, then set up your page, then raise funds!

We do the paperwork so that you can focus on your mission.

We are part of an international network of 600 nonprofits, LLCs, and co-ops around the world that use the same, open source software to create efficiencies with money.

OC Foundation is a nonprofit with a tech platform that enables over 300 groups to raise and spend over $13 million dollars a year in full transparency.

If your group wants to:

View your entire budget in one secure place
Share your budget with your community
Apply for a grant
Offer tax write-offs when people donate
Create mini-grants for your community
Offer virtual debit cards to your team
Reimburse volunteers
Use an open-source and community-led platform

We've got you covered!

Share your budget

Everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Clarity and accountability without any spreadsheets or extra work!

Receive Contributions

Accept payments by credit card, bank transfer, and Paypal. Define custom tiers and set goals to motivate your supporters to give.

Manage Expenses

Contributors and vendors can easily submit receipts and invoices. You approve or reject them, and once paid your balance updates automatically.

Engage your community

Post Updates to engage supporters and share your progress and the impact of their funding. Use Conversations as a community discussion forum.

Celebrate your supporters

Leaderboard of your top funders, plus highlight how your whole community contributes in different ways.

Get monthly reports

A summary of your group’s activities, progress on your budget goals, new contributors, and expense details, with all transaction data and receipts/invoices attached.

And much more!

Virtual Cards – Free Courses – Grants – Collective Admins – Processing Payments 2x a Week – Community Forums – Tech Owned by Us – Transparency – Exit to Community – Solidarity Economies – Radical Admin –

Is OC Foundation right for you?

Services	Hosted by OC Foundation (OCF)	Create a NonProfit	Use our tech Platform without a Fiscal Host like OCF	Hosted by Another Fiscal Sponsor	Use Another Crowdfunding Platform
Access to non profit status	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	?
No required minimum balance	✔️	✔️	✔️	?	✔️
No monthly or annual fee	✔️	✔️	✔️	?	✔️
Crowdfunding tools like Tiers and Goals	✔️	❌	✔️	?	✔️
Transparent finances	✔️	❌	✔️	❌	❌
Powerful money management features	✔️	❌	✔️	❌	?
Automated recurring donations	✔️	❌	✔️	?	?
Share your ideas for the platform directly with computer engineers	✔️	❌	✔️	❌	❌
No need to open a group bank account.	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	❌
Legal and tax compliance handled for you	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	?
Hands-on support from a team of professionals	✔️	❌	❌	?	?
Twice-a-week expense payouts	✔️	?	?	❌	?
Join a real community with learning opportunities and peer support.	✔️	❌	❌	?	❌
Streamlined employment and benefits options	✔️	❌	❌	?	❌
Community-controlled technology worth $7M	✔️	❌	❌	❌	?
Cost	8% of donations (6% if you raise over $500k)	$10,000 for legal, compliance, and IRS fees	FREE (if you already have an organization)	7-14% of donations	5-15% of donations

We ask for 8% of the money raised to pay our team and build technology you ask for.

$1000 raised

$920 for the Collective

$80 OCF services

$40 Staff

$40 Tech

Fees

* See more details on fees. They drop to 6% after $500k raised and 4% after $1m (for checks and bank transfers). Credit card contribution fees break down as 5% for OCF and 3% for the payment processor. OCF's own budget is transparent so you can see what fee revenue goes toward!

Collective work + transparent finances = ♥️

Click on a collective to see their budget and learn more about their impact.

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Community events

Join our Community Forum on first Fridays of the month to meet the team and other Collectives in a space of mutual support.

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Resources for Events

Events are part of our emergent Solidarity School, where Collectives meet one another, build trust, share skills, and learn from special guests. Events include: monthly Community Forums and Welcome Party, and a quarterly Solidarity Economy 101. We also host an ongoing Offers & Needs Market. Have something to offer to or request from the community? Share it here and visit the #oanm-collaboration channel in Slack to connect. What learning or sharing would support your Collective? Hop on Slack or join an upcoming Community Forum to let us know.

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OC Foundation Board of Directors

Pia Mancini

Founding Director

Spain

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Andrew Trask

Board Member

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Kaitlin Thaney

Board Member

New York, U.S.A.

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Angie Kim

Board Member

California, U.S.A.

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Hafidha Acuay

Board Member

New York, U.S.A.

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Collective Representative

Coming Soon!

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OC Foundation Operations and Community

Alanna Irving

Executive Director

Wellington, New Zealand

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Nathan Hewitt

Program Staff

New York, U.S.A.

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Kayla Epstein

Support Staff

California, U.S.A.

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Ember Buck

Support Staff

Wellington, New Zealand

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Mike Strode

Program Manager

Chicago, U.S.A.

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Caroline Woolard

Director of Research and Partnerships

Berlin, Germany

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Alina Manko

Operations & Support

Wellington, New Zealand

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Sadé Swift

Communications Organizer

New York, U.S.A.

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Leila M. Trutanich

Legal Council

California, U.S.A.

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Nia Hunter

Artist-Organizer Fellow

Baltimore, U.S.A.

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Niki Franco

Artist-Organizer Fellow

Miami, U.S.A.

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Ebony Gustave

Artist-Organizer Fellow

New York, U.S.A.

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Robin Bean Crane

Artist-Organizer Fellow

California, U.S.A.

Platform Engineering and Design

François Hodierne

Engineering

Berlin, Germany

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Benjamin Piouffle

Engineering

France

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Memo Esparza

Design

Mexico

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Benjamin Nickols

Product

United Kingdom

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Sudharaka Palamakumbura

Engineering

Vancouver, Canada

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Amina Kazi

Design

India

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Shannon Wray

Marketing

New Zealand

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Leonardo Kewitz

Engineering

Brazil

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Oluwaseun Omoyajowo

Engineering

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Join our team!

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James Vaughan

Senior Software Engineer

NY, U.S.A.

OC Foundation Network Affiliations

New Economy Coalition

Solidarity Economy

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Social Impact Commons

Social Impact Commons

Philadelphia, U.S.A.

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National Network of Fiscal Sponsors

Fiscal Sponsorship

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Values

Open Collective Foundation is creating legal, financial, and technical commons for the Solidarity Economy movement.

We have a unique role to play as steward of a legal, financial, and technical commons—a piece of shared infrastructure—that is resonating deeply with the Solidarity Economy movement. We can build bridges between 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsorship, the open source community (where we have deep roots), mutual aid groups (100+ are hosted by OCF today), and the movement at large.

Solidarity is our guiding principle at Open Collective Foundation. We practice what we preach. Here are some ways that transparency (“Open”) and shared work (“Collective”) are embodied and by us, the people you will meet at OCF:

We set our salaries together and account for responsibility level, as well as debt, disability, disadvantage, and dependents, and more – more about that, here.
We practice distributed leadership.
We set our own schedules, to balance care for ourselves and our communities with our accountability and service to collectives.
We have a fund for learning and coaching to support individual growth.
We use a stewardship model where each person on the team supports one other person in their growth.
We use a teal organizational model that aims to balance autonomy and collaboration.
See below and our Docs for more.

VALUES

Trust & Transparency

Funders, partners, and Collectives feel safe giving us money to manage.
We protect our reputation as a shared resource relied on by all our stakeholders.
Our operational processes and execution reliably live up to expectations.
We meet needs around liability, risk, professional advice, and compliance.
We leverage our structures, brand, and track record to unlock funding opportunities.
While we’re open to experimentation, we remain stable in a changing world.
Transparency is a big way we build trust, including transparency of our Collectives and of our own operations and governance.
We trust Collective leaders and give them as much autonomy as possible over their budgets, while ensuring they follow best practice and regulations.
We act as a bridge between the tech and nonprofit worlds, bringing together grassroots organizers and institutional funders.
Our platform delivers transparency automatically, in order to drastically increase the real transparency of Collectives and funding.
We provide engagement and reporting tools that help Collectives build trust with their funders, community, and stakeholders.
We trust Collectives to autonomously make their own decisions about their money (while ensuring activities meet compliance regulations and maintain trust with their supporters).
We trust funders to give directly to the Collectives they want to support.

Collectivism

We believe in creating positive impact through creating commons and partnerships.
Our voice represents all the Collectives under our umbrella, and we use it wisely.
We support practices and tools that help our Collectives work effectively as collectives (not bottlenecking on a single individual).
We serve our Collectives both as discrete projects and as a community.
We choose cooperation above competition, and collaboration above individualism.
Our structure, legal status, and brand are common resources that we lend to Collectives wherever possible to increase their impact and open doors.
We believe society at large should also be an equitable collective, and we work to close its many gaps and inequalities.
For society to function as a collective, we must be dedicated to removing barriers to civic and economic participation, and we see our mission of positive impact through the lens of systemic equity and social justice.

Service

We are here to serve the nonprofit missions of our Collectives and funders; our mission is to amplify their missions.
We are operationally efficient and our processes enable progress, not slow it down.
We use technology to empower Collectives, strive to continually improve it, deeply understand it: tech-driven positive impact requires tech-driven fiscal sponsorship.
We provide comprehensive financial management all on one platform, enabling efficient service.
We focus on human connection; our business is numbers but people are not just numbers to us.
We show and admit our own humanity, including imperfections, to authentically serve our mission.
We put as much power and autonomy as possible in the hands of Collectives, funders, and their communities, to enable them to serve themselves using our tools, while ensuring best practice.

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