Bevy Foundation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
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.
- Income
- $73,940
- Spending
- $38,797
- Reserves
- 10.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
- Highest pay
- $29,856, secretary / staff engineer
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $27,143 spent. 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).
- $5,816 spent. Writing 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 section)
- $5,816 spent. Educating 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.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since July 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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