@kims I would not be surprised if you *were* 1% of the monthly MA contributions, to be honest. A large proportion of donations are pretty much "passing around the same buck" between whoever has more room to spare money at the moment. This is something recipients have frequently identified as a thing that's happening, even if no exact numbers are available.

Regarding the donation log: Ko-Fi does indeed show an (anonymized) donation log, and I believe that in some subset of cases, it can show amounts (though I'm not sure what the exact settings are here). I've seen similar things on various other fundraising platforms, usually with an option for the donor whether they want to be anonymous or not. But it varies from platform to platform; they don't all reveal this.

On why more people don't accept Ko-Fi or PayPal: there's a variety of reasons, though two particularly common ones are account blocks (PayPal has a tendency of overblocking) and being forced to publicize one's deadname (for trans folks). Since Ko-Fi just uses PayPal directly behind the scenes, it's subject to the same issues.

(I'm wondering if it wouldn't be useful to do a formal survey of these things at some point. Although it would require proper care to make sure it doesn't put anyone at risk.)