Issue 180 · October 2026
No 2025 Form 990 exists, so every public source stops at 2024. FPF's own audited statements go further, and they show an operating deficit 17.5 times the reported bottom line, a treasury moved wholesale into securities, a $15.6M board-designated reserve the Form 990 cannot show, and $2,307,257 of crypto.
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Ushahidi Inc reported $532,372 of total revenue in 2024 against $1,905,295 of expenses. A January 2026 amended return restated 2023 revenue from $318,982 to $851,385 and disclosed $317,804 of officer pay the original return reported as zero. Read from the filed IRS XML.
A composite founder diary at 83K MRR. Delaware's 2025 amendment narrowed what a stockholder can demand under Section 220, but subsection (d) still lets a director reach other corporate records, with the burden of proof on the company.
Network Time Foundation reported $339,941 of revenue in 2025 and net assets of minus $579,872. The filed Form 990, Schedule L and the foundation's own accounts, read line by line.
The Plone Foundation took $67,747 in 2025 and spent $75,027. Its balance sheet says $3,209,298, but 93.48% of that is one line called Software Code, valued in 2009 on the Plone 3.3 code base. A line-by-line read of the filed Form 990, reconciled to the cent against the Foundation's own ledger.
A composite founder diary at 82K MRR. When a payment order names one person and numbers another, the receiving bank may pay on the number and need not check the name. The escape the statute gives a non bank originator is deleted by a signature, and the right to chase the stranger follows the loss.
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