· Public charity
Software Freedom Conservancy Inc
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) promotes, improves, develops, facilitates & defends Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) & the right to software repair.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | $16,963 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $53k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $47k to organizations and $6k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: A grant to Stichting Godot, a Dutch non-profit organization that supports the Godot Project, a FOSS game engine, to specifically support the use, development and improvement of Free and Open Source Software. · A copyleft enforcement grant to an individual to undertake a legal action in Germany where he successfully sought the complete, corresponding source for the LGPL'd components on the router he purchased. A full explanation of the results of the grant are here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/
How this is measured
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 5 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Software Freedom Conservancy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Software Freedom Conservancy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Python Software Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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