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← APPROPEDIA FOUNDATION 2084

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by APPROPEDIA FOUNDATION 2084.

Totals

Total revenue
$505,018
Total expenses
$316,991
Contributions and grants received
$505,018
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$342,611
Total liabilities, end of year
$52,944
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$289,667
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$307,370
Management and general expenses
$7,071
Fundraising expenses
$2,550
Program service expenses (Part III)
$307,370

Program services were 97.0% 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

    $12,366

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $492,652

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

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

    $12,336

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $191,448 · program services $188,448 · management and general $3,000

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $2,550 · fundraising $2,550

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $3,592 · program services $3,485 · management and general $107

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $29,171 · program services $29,171

  • 17 · Travel

    total $21,188 · program services $17,224 · management and general $3,964

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $69,042 · program services $69,042

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $10,640 · end of year $160,686

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $121,000 · end of year $181,925

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $30,000 · end of year $52,944

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $19,829 · end of year $56,511

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $81,811 · end of year $233,156

Mission and programs · 2022

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.

  • Achievements in 2022 include: * Appropedia reached over 1.2M users from 231 countries. The platform rolled out features for accesibility including offline access, and improved its content generation tools. * Provided support to finalists of the Global Surgical Training Challenge, a USD 5M competition aimed at enable surgical training and access to simulators for low and middle-income countries. This competition was funded by Intuitive Foundation and supported by MIT Solve, Nesta Challenges, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Appropedia Foundation.

    Expenses $49,560 · Revenue $49,560

  • * Facilitated capacity building to document and communicate open souce innovations, in collaboration with multiple global programs, such as Open Hardware Makers, Critical Making, and Open Climate. * Carried out a fundraising campaign to produce the book To Catch the Sun and translate to several languages. The book provides experiences and context for projects based off Appropedia content to build and deploy low-cost photovoltaic solutions. The campaign raised over USD 20,000 on Kickstarter through 440 supporters.

    Expenses $31,908 · Revenue $31,908

  • * Appropedia Foundation is a member of the Internet of Producton Alliance (IoPA), a group focused on developing documentation standards and distributed manufacturing capabilities. In 2022, the Foundation established a fiscal sponsorship ageeement to administer funds provided by the Sloan Foundation to support the global operations of the IoPA.

    Expenses $225,902 · Revenue $225,902

As filed on the 2022 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
2022
Filed
3 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202343199349301464

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