Annual Report 2025
Introduction
The 2025 fiscal year marks the first full operational year of the OpenCommit Foundation. This annual report provides a high-level overview of the year’s activities, our financial statements, plans for the upcoming year, and a brief transparency report.
Key Milestones
- Q1 - Bank account application submitted
- Q1 - Development of the opencommit.nl foundation website
- Q1 - Setup of development machines
- Q1 - ANBI (Public Benefit Organization) status application submitted
- Q2 - Participation in various hackathons
- Q2 - Implementation of K8S, Ceph, ArgoCD, CNPG, Forgejo, etc.
- Q3 - ANBI status granted
- Q3 - Continued development of the foundation website
- Q3 - Finalization of the development environment
- Q4 - Migration of the development environment to production
- Q4 - Secured sponsorship from Soverin for email services
- Q4 - Preparation for go-live in Q1 2026
Finances
Each year, we share high-level information regarding the current financial state of the foundation.
Balance Sheet 2025
| Assets | Liabilities | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank | 1,535.01 | VAT: Payable | 0.– |
| VAT: Reclaimable | 31.52 | Accounts Payable | 0.– |
| Equity: Donations | 1,566.53 |
Note: Our domain names are recorded on the balance sheet as intangible fixed assets with no assigned book value and have been omitted here for clarity.
Income & Expenses 2025
| Item | Income | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Donations | 3,405.90 | |
| Sponsors | 216.– | |
| Merchandise | 0.– | |
| 0.– | ||
| Hosting | 279.01 | |
| 216.– | ||
| Domains | 0.– | |
| Hardware | 0.– | |
| Bank Fees | 87.89 | |
| Administrative Costs | 229.99 | |
| Legal Fees | 1,092.22 | |
| Marketing Expenses | 149.87 | |
| Mollie (one-time) | 0.39 | |
| Sub-totals | 3,621.90 | 2,055.37 |
| BALANCE | 1,566.53 |
All amounts are in Euros.
Notable Donors & Sponsors
The original founder of the OpenGit Foundation, Martijn van der Kleijn, sponsored all costs related to domain names for 2024 & 2025.
Soverin provided in-kind sponsorship by covering all email services for both the organization and the platform. This has been reflected in the accounting.
Budget for 2026
A provisional budget for 2026 is presented below and will be updated in Q1 2026 where necessary. These figures represent known and estimated values as of this date. Values may change during the year, for instance, if donations exceed expectations.
Amounts in Euros.
| Item | Income | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Donations 1) | 3,600.– | |
| Sponsors | 216.– | |
| Merchandise | 0.– | |
| Balance from 2025 | 1,566.53 | |
| Hosting | 3,600.– | |
| Email 2) | 216.– | |
| Domains | 100.– | |
| Hardware | 0.– | |
| Bank Fees | 90.– | |
| Administrative Costs | 250.– | |
| General Expenses | 100.– | |
| Marketing Costs | 150.– | |
| Sub-totals | 5,382.53 | 4,506.– |
| BALANCE | 876.53 |
1) The majority of these donations are guaranteed by the board members.
2) Email sponsorship provided in-kind by Soverin.
Plans for 2026
High-level objectives for 2026 include, but are not limited to:
- Updating both the five-year policy plan (2025-2030) and the 2026 annual policy plan;
- Attending FOSDEM 2026;
- Establishing closer cooperation with the Forgejo & Codeberg organizations;
- Attracting more sponsorships and donors;
- Investigating whether a commercial branch can provide financial support to the foundation;
- Achieving at least a break-even financial result;
- Reaching a target of 250 users and 2,500 repositories;
- Presenting at least four times at relevant forums.
Transparency Report 2024
| Item | # |
|---|---|
| Requests from Dutch authorities | 0 |
| Requests for user information 1) | 0 |
| Requests for data traffic | 0 |
| Mailbox inspections | 0 |
| DMCA requests | 0 |
| 451 - Unavailable for legal reasons | 0 |
1) User information includes: email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, aliases, bank accounts, etc., to the extent that we possess such information.