Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by BRAVE NEW SOFTWARE PROJECT INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $4,031,614
- Total expenses
- $4,300,945
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,694,316
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $1,337,298
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,550,544
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,244,241
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $306,303
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,687,683
- Management and general expenses
- $584,960
- Fundraising expenses
- $28,302
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,687,683
Program services were 85.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$2,487,788
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$206,528
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2a · Program service revenue: Program Income
total $709,367 · related or exempt $709,367
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2b · Program service revenue: Subscription income
total $627,931 · related or exempt $627,931
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $272,555 · program services $272,555
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,333,667 · program services $1,032,030 · management and general $279,856 · fundraising $21,781
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $212,821 · program services $172,062 · management and general $37,046 · fundraising $3,713
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $112,844 · program services $88,783 · management and general $22,363 · fundraising $1,698
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $37,915 · management and general $37,915
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11g · Fees: other
total $641,961 · program services $620,488 · management and general $21,185 · fundraising $288
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14 · Information technology
total $206,113 · program services $185,319 · management and general $20,767 · fundraising $27
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16 · Occupancy
total $15,039 · management and general $15,039
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17 · Travel
total $916 · management and general $207 · fundraising $709
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23 · Insurance
total $3,091 · management and general $3,091
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24a · Other expenses: Server Costs
total $1,280,525 · program services $1,280,525
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24b · Other expenses: Supplies
total $8,819 · program services $324 · management and general $8,455 · fundraising $40
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24c · Other expenses: Professional fees
total $76,096 · program services $33,242 · management and general $42,854
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24d · Other expenses: Dues and fees
total $98,583 · program services $2,355 · management and general $96,182 · fundraising $46
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $364,606 · end of year $1,261,536
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $195,692
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $580,680 · end of year $44,478
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $48,838
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$38,827
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$38,827
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $63,522
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $164,352 · end of year $165,824
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $268,822 · end of year $627,616
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25 · Other liabilities
end of year $450,801
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $575,634 · end of year $306,303
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Brave New Software is dedicated to keeping the Internet open and decentralized. We build open source software tools that helps users access an uncensored internet, and create a more open and protected information infrastructure for us all.
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Developing and supporting censorship circumvention software.
Expenses $3,687,683
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
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A F
President and Exec Director
- Total calculated
- $304,667
- From this org
- $274,725
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $29,942
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $274,725
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $29,942
- Filer's total
- $304,667
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S W
Dir of Infrastructure and Svc
- Total calculated
- $192,742
- From this org
- $162,800
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $29,942
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $162,800
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $29,942
- Filer's total
- $192,742
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D F
Dir of Product Design
- Total calculated
- $177,947
- From this org
- $152,625
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $25,322
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $152,625
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $25,322
- Filer's total
- $177,947
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R W
Dir of Grants
- Total calculated
- $157,448
- From this org
- $137,363
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $20,085
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $137,363
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $20,085
- Filer's total
- $157,448
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P D
Sr Software Engineer
- Total calculated
- $152,995
- From this org
- $132,275
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $20,720
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $132,275
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $20,720
- Filer's total
- $152,995
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M K
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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A H
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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S M
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 30 March 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202610989349300426
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