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Wikipedia gets a lot of funding from billionaires and corporations. It's not going to be easy for most instances to be funded entirely by user donations long term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Wikimedia_Endowment
edit: removed "most"
I have contributed money repeatedly to Wikipedia and will continue to do so (I have no interest in editing). I'm not rich.
If you want to really measure the support for Wikipedia, you have to include the editing. That's hard to measure in dollars but I'm sure it dwarfs the 'billionaire' contributions.