Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by APPROPEDIA FOUNDATION 2084.

Totals

Total revenue: $188,634
Total expenses: $168,335
Contributions and grants received: $188,634
Grants paid: $0
Program service revenue: $0
Investment income: $0
Other revenue: $0
Total assets, end of year: $139,955
Total liabilities, end of year: $3,796
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $136,159
Program services expenses (Part IX): $167,056
Management and general expenses: $1,279
Fundraising expenses: $0
Program service expenses (Part III): $167,056

Program services were 99.2% 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.

1a · Federated campaigns

$0
1b · Membership dues

$0
1c · Fundraising events

$0
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$0
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$188,634
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$0
2f · All other program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
3 · Investment income

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
5 · Royalties

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6a · Gross rents

real property $0 · personal property $0
6b · Less rental expenses

real property $0 · personal property $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $0 · personal property $0
6d · Net rental income or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $0 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $0 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $0 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$0
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$0
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$0
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
9a · Gaming: gross income

$0
9b · Gaming: direct expenses

$0
9c · Net income from gaming

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
10a · Gross sales of inventory

$0
10b · Cost of goods sold

$0
10c · Net income from sales of inventory

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11e · Other revenue, total

$0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

11a · Fees: management

total $425 · program services $425
13 · Office expenses

total $630 · management and general $630
14 · Information technology

total $7,806 · program services $7,806
16 · Occupancy

total $0 · program services $0
17 · Travel

total $3,347 · program services $2,813 · management and general $534
23 · Insurance

total $115 · management and general $115
24e · All other expenses

total $156,012 · program services $156,012

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $110,684 · end of year $99,246
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $35,921 · end of year $40,709
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $30,745 · end of year $3,796
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $13,013 · end of year -$18,813
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $102,847 · end of year $154,972

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Appropedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that enables access to documentation for international development and sustainability. Our main activities are maintaining and promoting Appropedia, an extensive open source solutions catalogue, and providing capacity building for individuals and organizations to produce and share open source, accessible, editable, and reproducible practical knowledge such as thematic knowledge, technical documentation and educational resources to solve pressing global issues.

In 2024, the Appropedia Foundation recorded 1.1 million page views from 192 countries as the platform grew to 16,000 pages with 730 new pages on appropriate technology, permaculture, and medical skills. Work during the year included a MediaWiki upgrade, new API features, the start of progressive web app development, and documentation support for organizations such as Intuitive Foundation, UNDP, Catholic Relief Services, and the Global Ecovillage Network. The foundation also improved its financial systems.

Expenses $167,056 · Revenue $188,634

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Lonny Grafman

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Curt Beckmann

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Andrew Lamb

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Chris Watkins

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Emilio Velis

Executive Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

40

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2024
Filed: 31 October 2025
IRS schema version: 2024v5.0
Source object: 202503049349302175

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