OC Foundation is proud to be the financial and legal home of Kola Nut Collaborative and 413 more groups

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

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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!

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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

* We say 8% because Open Collective Foundation takes 5% for crowdfunding done on the site and third-party payment processors (like Stripe and Paypal) charge separate fees that average 3% on each transaction made using their service. Learn more here. We take 4-8% for bank transfers and checks: 8% for up to 500k raised; 6% for up to 1 million raised; 4% for over a million raised.

Collective work + transparent finances = ♥️

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

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.

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. Upcoming events include: the monthly Community Forum, a (new!) monthly Welcome Party, a (new!) Fundraising 101, a (new!) Grantwriting 101, and a quarterly Solidarity Economy 101.

What type of learning would support your Collective? Please hop in #ocf-solidarity-school-alumni and #community-support on Slack or join an upcoming Community Forum to share on the type of learning you would like. Mike Strode and Caroline Woolard are also available to talk through your ideas.

Our July Community Forum will feature The Missing Piece: Creating Healing Listening Spaces sharing more about Emotional CPR (eCPR), a community education program that teaches people how to support another person experiencing an emotional crisis.

Do you have something that you want to offer or request from the OC Foundation community? Share more about the Offer or Need on this Airtable form and then visit the #oanm-collaboration channel in Slack to connect with the Offers & Needs others have shared.

We are a group of committed people you can reach out to.

OC Foundation Board of Directors

Pia Mancini

Founding Director

Spain

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Andrew Trask

Board Member

California, U.S.A.

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Kaitlin Thaney

Board Member

California, 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

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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, New Zealand

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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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