Hi there, SNLI_admin.

Welcome to the QuickBooks Community. Let me discuss how projects work in QuickBooks Online. I'll ensure you can send feedback so your suggestion is forwarded to the Product Development Team. 

Creating projects in QBO helps you record your income or expenses and allocating each project to a specific donor is needed so you can manage your data accurately. With this, there isn't currently a way to make the donor field optional or exclude it.

For now, I suggest going to the Gear icon in QuickBooks Online. From there, you're able to choose Feedback to submit a request about having the option to remove the donor field when creating a project. Any recommendations are sent to our engineer for consideration in future updates.

Lastly, you may refer to this article to see various details on how to make sure what you're seeing in your projects are up to date: Track income, costs, and profitability by project.

Don't hesitate to click the Reply button below if you have an extra concern about a project in QuickBooks. I'm always here to help, SNLI_admin. Have a great day!