I don’t have money to donate but I can be a committer working on simple tasks. Of course, you does not need to pay for my “donate” works.
In my opinion, we need a good leader with the best vision in android porting area, he know needed resources, tasks, stages, … so that we will have a good plan to move forward. (It’s simple beginning for us: taylorpeer.com/hello-world-cpp-android-ndk/)
I think $1000 is not big enough to pay for a group/party, it’s better to be rewards for this planning work. Since we know exactly works need to be done, we can schedule tasks for volunteer dev (like me) to work on them. 