Bevy Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991019220
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3098245732
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,940
- Expenses
- $38,797
- Assets
- $35,143
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Carter Anderson (President)
People named in this filing
- Michael Carter Anderson (President)
- Alice Cecile (Secretary / Staff Engineer)
- Francois Mockers (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build a world class free and open source game engine.
What it reported doing in 2024
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 taxes and fees) x 0.7 (estimated amount of time she spent on this program) = $27,143. In terms of "number of persons benefited", Bevy does not employ any user tracking in our software, so finding an exact number is hard. One metric we have is how many crates.io downloads the Bevy software package has. We take a snapshot of this number once a year in August. Our last snapshot in August of 2024 had 834,415 downloads since the previous snapshot (note that users can download Bevy more than once, so this is NOT a direct count of people).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.4%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 47.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 52.4% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.