In this study, we apply the theory of collective action to crowdfundedjournalism and examine donors’ motivations to contribute using data froma pioneering crowdfunded journalism website, Spot.Us. Extending priorcrowdfunding research based on qualitative interviews or inferences from donor behaviors we draw on direct responses from crowdfunders using a survey and correlate donors’ responses to their actual donation behaviors as observed from the server of Spot.Us’s website.