Washington · Nonprofit
Bevy Foundation
Bevy Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,938 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,938). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Bevy Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to promote, protect, and advance the free and open source Bevy Engine and related open source projects. We coordinate and promote its continued maintenance and development, educate and train members of the general public in its usage, and conduct research and development to advance the state of the art of creating real-time applications and simulations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Developing Open Source Application Development and Simulation Technology: In 2024 the Bevy Foundation produced three Bevy open source Bevy releases (Bevy 0.13, Bevy 0.14, and Bevy 0.15), which we released as free and open source software under the dual Apache 2.0 / MIT software license. These releases added rendering features (ex: virtual geometry, voxel global illumination, lightmaps, volumetric fog, depth of field), Entity Component System features (ex: required components, hooks, observers), animation features (animation graphs, blending), user interface features (box shadows, better text rendering, rounded UI corners, camera-driven UI), and many others. These releases were produced by hundreds of volunteers over the course of 2,882 "pull requests". Alice Cecile, the Bevy Foundation Staff Engineer we hired this year, spent approximately 70% of her time serving as a project manager (reviewing and merging pull requests) and developer (building new features and designs). Paying Alice was the foundation's one expense for this program service, so we have reported this program service's expenses as $27,143, computed as: $38,776 (The total cost of paying Alice's salary, including…
$27,143 spent70% of program spendingWriting Educational Material and Training Members of the Public: The foundation produced release notes for the three Bevy releases this year, which described in detail the most important features that were added: Bevy 0.13: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-13/ Bevy 0.14: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-14/ Bevy 0.15: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-15/ The foundation also doubled the number of lines of Bevy API (application programming interface) documentation, from 32,007 lines of documentation to 63,575 lines. This documentation was produced by hundreds of volunteers via some of the 2,882 pull requests submitted (not every pull request contributed API documentation). Again, like the previous program service selection, paying Alice was our one expense this year. She spent an estimated 15% of her time on this program service. Using the same calculation as the previous section, this resulted in an estimated expense of $5,816 to the foundation. Again, in terms of "number of persons benefited", Bevy does not employ any user tracking, so we will once again provide an (over) estimate of the 834,415 downloads that occurred between "yearly snapshots" (see previous program service…
$5,816 spent15% of program spendingEducating and Running Flourishing Bevy Communities: The foundation moderated and ran our Github community, Discord community, and social media presences. The foundation board members serve as moderators in these communities. In 2024 there were 684,511 messages in the Bevy Discord and 2138 issues in the bevy repository. Again, like the previous program service selection, paying Alice was our one expense this year. She spent an estimated 15% of her time on this program service. Using the same calculation as the previous section, this resulted in an estimated expense of $5,816 to the foundation. Calculating "number of persons benefited" is challenging here, but our Discord has approximately 20,000 members, who benefit from our help channels, development discussions, and personal interactions.
$5,816 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,775.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Bevy Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Bevy Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Bevy Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 660 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Washington
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Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bevy Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bevy Foundation?
- Bevy Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,938 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,938). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bevy Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,938 in grants to Bevy Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bevy Foundation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bevy Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing