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Ask HN: Are there any successful tech non-profits?

20 points by samemail88 ↗ HN
I'm curious if there are any technology based non-profits that are cater to direct consumers where their primary business is a website/web business. The biggest one I can think of is Wikipedia; they are successful and have a very popular set of websites. Mozilla is another successful non-profit, but its primary business is not a website but a web application (Firefox). I'm not sure if Patreon is a non-profit or community benefit corporation. Do you know any others?

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scripta
https://free.law/

Among its other achievements, the Freelaw Project was instrumental in the push for recent bi-partisan legislation, signed by Pres. Biden, in the realm of ethics reform for the judicial branch.

samemail88
I’ve never heard of them but they seem like a good non-profit. I was more interested if there were more non-profits that had websites/web service consumers used. Their website more company landing site (but they are non profit).
lupire
> Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software and data to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

> RECAP is our tool to put federal court documents in your hands

> CourtListener is our archive of legal opinions, filings, judges, and judicial financial records

20after4
I'm not sure Mozilla counts as they are a for-profit corp owned by a non-profit. But AFAIK the majority of their activity falls under the for-profit corporation.
sonofacorner
Not sure if Our World in Data (https://ourworldindata.org/) qualifies to the type of non-profit you're asking about.

But they've built an amazing resource to learn more about the world.

guywithahat
Patreon is for-profit as far as I can tell, givesendgo.com is a nonprofit though