Support the mission
Donations fund the project, not the code. The code stays open, always.
Nizen shows no ads, sells no data, and charges nobody to be found. That is a design choice, not a phase we grow out of. It keeps the dataset honest and the incentives clean: the project answers to its community, not to advertisers.
That also means it runs on donations.
What your gift funds
Your support pays for the unglamorous things that keep an open dataset alive: server and database hosting, map and geocoding costs, the tools that let volunteers verify records, and the slow, patient work of keeping data fresh. It does not fund salaries, ads, or growth hacks. It keeps the lights on for a map everyone owns and nobody rents.
What it does not do
Donations fund the project, not the code. The code is open source under a permissive license and always will be. The dataset is separately licensed as open data. Giving money does not buy influence over either. Nobody owns Nizen.
How to give
We are setting up the donation channel now. For the moment, the fastest way to reach us is through the project’s open-source home. If you would like to support Nizen, or fund it as an organisation or temple community, message us there and we will point you to the right place.