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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.
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation filed $250,051 of revenue for 2025 with zero employees and 143 volunteers. Advertising was 70.48% of spending. The $2.9M figure doing the rounds is wrong by 11.60x.
The OWASP Foundation reported $4,340,593 of revenue in FY2024, up 35.40%, turning a $244,324 deficit into a $735,916 surplus. Its own board-approved budgets then plan deficits of $72,294.81 for FY2025 and $247,834.11 for FY2026. Reading the return against the audit, the budgets and Schedule A shows seven published answers spanning a factor of 1,248.
OASIS Open reported $4,632,683 of revenue in FY2024, up 40.40%, swinging a $616,017 deficit into a $415,595 surplus. Its own combined statements put FY2025 at $4,058,470, a year the IRS has no return for. Reading them against the filed 990 shows most of the money is not OASIS's.
Common Crawl reported $1,467,641 of revenue in FY2024. Because it files as a private foundation, its donor list is public, and it names Anthropic and OpenAI at $250,000 each in both FY2023 and FY2024, matching the founder's family foundation to the dollar.
The Bytecode Alliance Foundation reported $288,126 of revenue in FY2024, down 48.63% from its $560,835 peak. All of it is membership dues, it has zero employees, and 77.90% of its spending is one line called Consultants. A four-year read of the filed returns.
The body behind OCP earns three quarters of its money from conferences, not members. Its 2024 Form 990 shows $18,947,048 of revenue, a record $4,056,054 surplus, a switch from cash to accrual accounting with a $735,275 section 481(a) adjustment, and audited statements that turn 2023's surplus into a $907,254 deficit.
The body behind Vulkan, OpenGL and glTF publishes no accounts and commissions no audit. Its Form 990 shows a $612,855 loss for 2024, member dues down 13.55 percent, events spending doubled, zero employees, and five contractors taking 38 percent of the budget.
The body that decides how the world stores text publishes no accounts and commissions no audit. Its Form 990 is the only public record, and it shows dues on both sides of the revenue statement, a loss that raised the balance sheet, and two contractors nobody has named.
The NetBSD Foundation filed $51,146 of revenue and a $14,928 deficit for 2024, and published $80,607.21 of income and a record $314,748.48 balance for 2025. It also publishes twenty-two years of its own accounts, which lets you check them against the tax return. They differ by exactly one line.
