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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
1(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.
Expense Name2024 CostDescriptionContractors$306,362.09Direct compensation to contributors working on Zig at a rate of $60/hour.Employees$154,263.32ZSF has one employee which is yours truly, Andrew Kelley, serving the role of Lead Software Engineer. Our contractors graciously bill infrequently when possible to help reduce this cost.Total Expenses$520,748.91 Even with a 13% bigger budget, we still managed to spend 92% of our money in 2024 paying contributors for their time. This category contains a number of individuals.ZML$33,000.00 ZML offers high performance inference on any model for any hardware.Mitchell Kember$21,027.00A generous individual.Individuals$19,312.52This category contains many people who donated via paper checks or other miscellaneous ways.Russel Simmons$16,384.00A generous individual.Blacksmith$14,000.00 Blacksmith is a dead simple, drop-in replacement that costs 75% less than GitHub runners.Total Income$670,672.59However, with our current level of recurring income, we will not be able to renew everyone’s contracts, nor offer new contracts to Zig core team members.
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