Sorry for being sceptical about this:

1. Afaik NielDK has a decent job, and wages in Denmark are not that bad.
I can have sympathy for guys like CepiPerez, who's stuff got stolen and lost his job. People like him and Coderus actually create new software and therefore additional value to make a device differ from others.

2. I don't understand the need for "development devices, software and hardware"
As NielDK mainly compiles/packages other persons (command line) software, that could be done on a simple PC with free SDK/emulator software.

3. And a bit more unrelated: the constant goodbye's, whether it is for bootloaders, batteries or council issues. He urgently insisted on removing his TMO account, only to create a new account within weeks.

But in the end: of course everybody is free to donate money to whomever he wants.