← Back to News page 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser September 02, 2025 Previous YearZig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources. Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig project.Don’t take my word for it - let’s look at some numbers.2024 Expenditures Expense Name 2024 Cost Description Contractors $306,362.09 Direct compensation to contributors working on Zig at a rate of $60/hour. Employees $154,263.32 ZSF has one employee which is yours truly, Andrew Kelley, serving the role of Lead Software Engineer. In 2024, I also volunteered my time as President of Zig Software Foundation, volunteered as Accounting Clerk, and volunteered as Development Director. In the future, it would be nice to have dedicated staff for these roles so that I could focus more on being Lead Software Engineer. Accounting $18,463.62 This is entirely paying our accountant, Strada Financial Group, to keep the American legal system happy and keep our organization tax-exempt. I suspected we were being overcharged, and in 2025 switched to a different accountant. CI & Website $14,986.73 Zig has great cross-compiling abilities in part due to investing in testing infrastructure for different systems. Some of these costs were one-time costs to purchase machines that sit in our homes and offices while others are market-rate Hetzner bare metal machines that we run GitHub Actions on. Taxes $13,089.07 Although ZSF is a tax-exempt organization, employees are still required to pay income tax. Travel $6,955.61 In a 2024 meeting, the board decided that the previous year's travel budget successfully helped grow Zig adoption, and retained the same budget of $15,000. In 2024, ZSF spent $6,956 of those allocated funds, increasing Zig's presence in Italy and Germany. Sponsorships $5,846.24 The Zig project is mostly comprised of in-house code, howev...
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