NixOS Foundation Financial Report 2024

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While I wasn’t part of the NixOS Foundation board in 2024, I’ve been working hard to catch up with financial tasks. Beside doing recurring accounting maintenance, monthly VAT reports and yearly tax submissions, I’ve now caught up to everything to be able to make a public yearly report of the year 2024. I hope to be able to close the year 2025 soon as well, followed by its public yearly report, stay tuned! Compared to the previous financial report, I’ll try to keep this one simple and straight to the point. Comparisons to the previous year are included where it’s doable and makes sense. I’ll omit balances for the ongoing NGI and STF grants for brevity and because it’s not particularly interesting until we have their final result. My sources are our internal accounting software and OpenCollective.

Summary

2024 was dominated by a ~€56k AWS bill, which stopped growing larger with the advent of the increased AWS sponsorship. The S3 Cache Long Term crowd-sourcing campaign raised about €10k, none of which was spent so far. NixCon 2024 turned into a small loss, as ticket sales (there were no sponsorships that year) were not able to balance out all the costs. General-purpose donations decreased by ~6.9%. About €10k from the documentation team crowdfunding campaign was spent. A new expense comes from the significant administrative assistance that was received.

Details

  • Expenses: -€119776.67 (last year: -€57199.84)
    • Infrastructure: -€65986.66
      • AWS (Storage/Cache): -€56140.88 (last year: -€20627.22)
      • Hetzner (Servers): -€8135.25 (last year: -€8081.08)
      • Hardware depreciation (Macs): -€1001.00
      • Netlify (Deployments): -€312.07
      • Gandi (Domains): -€211.46
      • rsync.net (Backups): -€186.00
    • VAT[1]: -€12876.52
    • Administrative assistant (389h): -€10999.92 (last year: -€1081.15)
    • Documentation team: -€10223.50 (last year: -€8912.51)
    • NixCon 2024: -€8416.49 (last year: +€18604.13)
      • Revenue: +€78290.87
      • Expenses: -€86707.36
    • Event funding: -€7876.88 (last year: -€7569.26)
    • Services: -€2542.53
      • Notion (Documents): -€982.57
      • Bitwarden (Passwords): -€587.37
      • Citibox (Post box): -€326.70
      • SendInBlue (Newsletter): -€248.00
      • E-boekhouden (Accounting): -€138.00
      • DocHub (Signatures): -€134.62
      • ImprovMX (Mail): -€83.74
      • Docusign (Signatures): -€41.53
    • Banking fees: -€437.64
    • Tax consultant: -€405.35
    • Misc: -€11.18
  • Revenue: +€63914.47 (last year: +€75627.55)
    • General-purpose donations: +€51995.03 (last year: +€55825.57)
      • OpenCollective donations: +€42754.61 (last year: +€47956.96)
      • Other donations: +€9240.42 (last year: +€7868.61)
    • Ear-marked donations: +€11913.24 (last year: +€19801.98)
    • Interest: +€6.20

Total income: -€55862.20

Historical end-of-year balance (equity):

  • 2024: €193130.32 (-€55862.20)
  • 2023: €248992.54 (+€87167.64)[2]
  • 2022: €161824.90 (+€37017.71)
  • 2021: €124807.19 (+€73885.64)
  • 2020: €50921.55

Crowdfunding campaigns yearly summary

Conclusion

This is the first time the NixOS Foundation has made a loss over the year, but the main drain has been resolved and we had enough reserves for it to not be a problem. As most of us board members were only appointed in 2025, we hope you can excuse the delayed yearly report. Going forward we are aiming to publish yearly reports in the beginning of the subsequent year, and get that started with the report for 2025 soon.

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NixOS Foundation board (@infinisil, @ra33it0, @lassulus, @ron, @ryantrinkle) :heart:

  1. Because we don’t generate any revenue from most services we pay for, we cannot pass the respective VAT onto paying consumers, and as such are deemed an end-user for those services and have to pay their VAT. With a better accounting system we might be able to divide this more clearly into the respective services, but our current one makes this really hard, so we’re listing this as a separate item. ↩︎

  2. The profit for 2023 is higher than indicated in the previous financial report because the documentation team donations were previously not treated as a win/loss account ↩︎

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