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Yes, a few. Signal (daily use), LetsEncrypt & Certbot (EFF). It's not enough.
One day I decided I'd spend $x every January (when I do all my other donations) on open source stuff I depend on, and roughly in the proportions I depend on them. It quickly became impossible - I can't just fund Debian (which I use a lot of in VMs), I'd need to think of all their dependencies, same with NGINX, Node etc etc. The mind boggles.
I need something like a Spotify subscription for open source to assuage my guilt of the great value I extract for my personal use of open source.
I would love to see something like this, where I can contribute to an open source project while also contributing to all their dependencies. Maybe such a thing exists and I just haven't heard of it yet.