donate

Your support helps us cover the essential costs of making this vision real.

We use OpenCollective as our primary donation platform. You can directly make a donation here:

Right now, donations will go toward:

• Setting up our physical space, including strong storage shelving, workbenches and desks, and essential shop infrastructure. Stocking the space with hand tools, electronics supplies, and basic equipment for collaborative projects.
• Creating safe conditions for members and visitors, including first aid resources, fire safety gear, and well-organized work areas.
• Covering early operational expenses—utilities, insurance, and similar requirements.
• Helping us host open houses, workshops, and other events to connect with the larger community.

Please keep in mind the following:

• Your contribution is a voluntary and irrevocable gift to help build dma.space and get it up and running. It is not an investment, loan, or purchase, and it is given without expectation of any goods, services, membership privileges or other compensation in return.
• dma.space is not yet a 501(c)(3) non-profit. This means your donation is not tax-deductible today. Though we are actively working on our application and your contribution may be deductible at some point in the future, we cannot guarantee it.
• We are putting all our effort into making the space a reality, however, in the unlikely event we aren’t able to launch by December 31st, 2026, we will do our best to refund all remaining funds. Your refund will be calculated proportionally based on your share of total donations, after any documented expenses up to that point are deducted.

Note

If you are making a large donation, please consider donating using ACH direct debit via Stripe or bank transfer instead of via card during payment.

Our payment processor, Stripe, charges us 2.9% + 30¢ per credit card transaction, and only 0.5% for ACH direct debit. On a $500 donation, this translates to ~$15 lost to fees for payment via card, as opposed to $2.50 for payment via ACH direct debit.

If your bank offers you low/no fees on outgoing transfers, consider using a manual bank transfer, as that will incur no fees to us.

Note

We do not use OpenCollective as our main form of bookkeeping. For complete transactions, please see to.dma.space/ledger.