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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.
ZSF's 2025 return shows $921,832 of revenue, one employee on $159,790 and $583,111 going out to contractors. Reconciled against the foundation's own published books, which agree to the cent on everything except depreciation.
The Apache Software Foundation took $2,220,257 in the year to 30 April 2025 and spent $2,334,727, its first loss in the recent series. Its own board had budgeted $3,000,000 of income and a $239,250 surplus. Read from three filed Form 990 returns and ASF's published budgets.
Rust Foundation revenue was $5,274,907 in 2025 against $4,810,306 of expenses. All five Form 990 filings, from the filed XML, including the year page one does not have. Membership dues actually fell, and Part VII reported the Executive Director at $0 for three straight years.
FSF reported revenue of $1,362,457 for the year ended September 30, 2025 against $1,431,359 of expenses. Its audited statements report $1,511,523 and a surplus. Five Form 990 filings cover three years, two of them amended.
The PSF reported revenue of $4,086,997 for 2024 against expenses of $5,765,854. Its own annual report shows $4,293,000 and puts the money in opposite buckets. Unrestricted reserves are down 46.7% in two years, the public support percentage moved 26 points on one vanished line, and Sub-Saharan Africa has overtaken Europe as its largest grant region.
Signal Foundation revenue was $29,413,537 in 2024 against $38,019,696 of expenses, and year-end net assets fell to minus $4,724,975. The Foundation also earned $6,386,666 of licensing fees, owes Brian Acton $33,810,810 against a $105,000,400 note none of which has been repaid, and paid $227,425 of federal income tax in 2023.
Calyx Institute's 2025 revenue is $7,198,949. But $2,482,692 of it is membership dues, matched by $2,516,681 of member benefits on the expense side. Strip the membership programme out and the operating surplus has fallen 78.66% in two years.
OSRF reported $2,596,521 of revenue for 2024 against $1,943,778 in 2023. But net assets grew $1,563,676 on a $566,754 surplus, and tracing the difference leads to a wholly owned taxable subsidiary with almost no public existence.
OSI filed $1,093,077 for 2024 and has self-published $667,000 for 2025, a year the IRS does not have. Its accounts and its tax return disagree, and the gap reconciles exactly.
