I am regularly in a position to control how funds for tech projects are spent. For example, choosing cloud infrastructure and such. I want to direct as much funding as possible to FOSS or FOSS friendly projects. The amount of money that I have control over in the company is way more than I could ever donate.

For example, I want to fund Linux kernel development, Postgres, language maintainers, etc.

I can't convince companies to donate outright, but I could get them to buy a license or choose a different cloud provider or database provider.

I'm looking for ways to get money to people making a difference through legitimate channels that I can use to push internally.

EDIT:

Summary of my favorite options so far,

• https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/redhat/byos
• https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html