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BRAVE NEW SOFTWARE PROJECT INC

EIN 27-3272909 BOULDER, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2025
$4,031,614
Expenses 2025
$4,300,945

Program services were 85.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R630
Classification
2000
Street
4845 PEARL EAST CIR STE 118

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 118). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

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.

  • Developing and supporting censorship circumvention software.

    Expenses $3,687,683

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • M K

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • A H

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,031,614
    Expenses
    $4,300,945
    Contributions
    $2,694,316
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,636,401
    Expenses
    $5,135,681
    Contributions
    $2,825,045
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,882,400
    Expenses
    $9,661,397
    Contributions
    $4,821,321
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,079,617
    Expenses
    $6,178,442
    Contributions
    $4,899,532
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,441,873
    Expenses
    $3,978,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,053,378

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,862,467
    Expenses
    $3,172,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,594,158

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,758,529
    Expenses
    $1,028,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $899,968

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,532,441
    Expenses
    $1,468,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $178,145

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $891,733
    Expenses
    $1,508,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $450,196

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,401,052
    Expenses
    $1,892,472
    Assets (EOY)
    $801,835

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,299,284
    Expenses
    $1,214,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $161,839

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $956,788
    Expenses
    $965,832
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,064

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.