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At least for Pop, the main funding stream is System76 computers, not Pop itself. It makes me a little nervous about the prospects if other companies start to move in more aggressively to the Linux consumer computer market. Personally, I just bought a Framework laptop that I might install Pop on, but none of that money is going to maintain Pop. I like Pop, so I don't feel too great about that.
You could either donate to help Pop's development or use its more community oriented upstream distro Debian.
Donating is a good idea, but it doesn't necessarily fix things as a systemic issue.