Ask HN: Donate to Open source software, How? How much?

The usual advice is to donate to project one uses the most, but this doesn't really works for me as the projects i use the most already have strong corporate backing : visual studio code,gcc,clang,chrome,ubuntu (although...),java/jdk.

What i am looking for is a curated list of projects sorted by a mix of financial needs,impact of the project and competence of the people working on it.

How do peps on HN chose how to donate ?