I have a lot of free time and am willing to contribute.
But the responses I largely got from reaching out to several projects pushed me away again.
If you make someone who wants to help you for free feel like they’re ringing your doorbell begging for money, then don’t be surprised when your project dies with you.

My “favorite” was one of the lead devs of Slackware, who deployed an edit I had proposed to one of his pages in the Slackware wiki “in the hope of avoiding conversations like this in the future”.