Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Oct 2007.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
97 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
5 people listed on the 990.
Emilio Velis’s $15K as Mr is at the 7th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2168 $100K–1M human services nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Shares practical knowledge and solutions for global development and sustainability.
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* 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…
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…
* 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.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2022 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY22 | End FY22 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $11K | $161K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $132K | $343K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $30K | $53K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $102K | $290K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management feesLn 11a | $191K | $188K | $3K | |
| Professional fundraising feesLn 11e | $3K | $3K | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $4K | $3K | $107 | |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $29K | $29K | ||
| TravelLn 17 | $21K | $17K | $4K | |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $69K | $69K | ||
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $317K | $307K | $7K | $3K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $363K | $363K | −$686 | $135K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $189K | $168K | $20K | $136K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $231K | $404K | −$174K | $116K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 Viewing | $505K | $317K | $188K | $290K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $148K | $46K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2020 | $53K | $50K | $3K | $12K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2022 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $505,018 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 5 of 5 board members independent, 3 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $505,018 across 7 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $316,991 across 6 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $342,611 assets, 9 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $289,667 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2022 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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