OC Foundation is proud to be the financial and legal home of Kola Nut Collaborative and 172 more groups

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

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Discover 173 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!

Free Courses – Grants – Collective Admins – Processing Payments – 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	✔️	❌	❌	?	?
Regular expenses payouts.	✔️	?	?	?	?
Join a real community with learning opportunities and peer support	✔️	❌	❌	?	❌
Streamlined employment and benefits options	✔️	❌	❌	?	❌
Community-controlled technology worth $9M	✔️	❌	❌	❌	?
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.

Upcoming events

Past events

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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.

From our blog: RSS Link

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

OC Foundation Board of Directors

Hafidha Acuay

Board Member

New York, U.S.A.

LinkedIn
Bart Westdijk

Board member

U.S.A.

Website

OC Foundation Operations and Community

Mike Strode

Program Manager

Chicago, U.S.A.

LinkedIn
Ember Buck

Support Staff

Wellington, New Zealand

LinkedIn
Leila M. Trutanich

Legal Council

California, U.S.A.

Website
Salwa R

Support Staff

New York, U.S.A.

OC Foundation Network Affiliations

New Economy Coalition

Solidarity Economy

U.S.A.

Website
National Network of Fiscal Sponsors

Fiscal Sponsorship

U.S.A.

Website

Values

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 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, dependents, and more - Blog Post 1 and 2.
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.
See our docs for more!

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.

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OC Foundation is proud to be the financial and legal home of Kola Nut Collaborative and 172 more groups

The Process

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

And much more!

Is OC Foundation right for you?

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

Fees

Collective work + transparent finances = ♥️

Community events

Upcoming events

Past events

Resources for Events

From our blog: RSS Link

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

OC Foundation Board of Directors

OC Foundation Operations and Community

OC Foundation Network Affiliations

Values

V﻿alues

Resources and documentation

Get in Touch!

Sign up for our newsletter

Connect with us on:

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