Apache Software Foundation

Analysis

Apache Software Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilmington, DE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover science and technology, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending April 2023, Apache Software Foundation reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.0m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income fell from $2.6m to $2.3m (-10%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Apache Software Foundation sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within DE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum ($2.3m), Morikami Inc ($2.3m) and Marwen Foundation ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $4.0m. It reported 4 employees.