The EFF received quite a few bitcoins early on, which it redistributed.<p>On the one hand, they'd be worth quite a bit today.
On the other, without ways of getting more people interested in bitcoin, they might have just stayed an interesting experiment and be worth nothing.<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/thank-you-bitcoin-community" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/thank-you-bitcoin-comm...</a>