I noticed that transfer companies usually charge fixed amount for each transaction, so donating $1 can easily incur 30%+ fee.
So I would like to find a rule of thumb to minimize the fees yet cover all projects I like

Any tips?

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Wikipedia is a very profitable company. They don’t need as many donations as the make it seem.

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Do you have a source to back this? Not to say I don’t believe you but I am legitimately curious

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If you’re german, i can link you a german video which explains it quite well

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Could you still link it? There might be germans interested

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Their higher-ups all earn exorbitant salaries

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries

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Wow that’s obscene, especially the steep rise over the years. I’ll stop donating to them.

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I generally do one-time donations to the foss apps I use, based on how much i use them and functionality. Somewhere between 5 and 20 bucks. For services like wikipedia, i just sort of “feel it out”

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