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Filing year 2023

SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY INC

Brooklyn, New York·EIN 41-2203632·NTEE U41 · Science & Technology·3
Total revenue
$2.5M
Total assets
$5.3M
Total expenses
$4.5M
Reported officers
10
Mission

Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) promotes, improves, develops, facilitates & defends Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) & the right to software repair. SFC advocates for the public's software rights & freedoms. SFC provides a home & infrastructure to FOSS initiatives. SFC helps volunteers focus on improving FOSS for the public. Projects include: creation of FOSS for general public, copyleft licensing advocacy, & internships for contributors subject to systemic bias who are underrepresented in FOSS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 4 reported individuals · Filing year 2023

President and Executive Director
$233k
$262k
Base
$171k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$54k
Treasurer, Director, and Policy Fellow
officer (unspecified)
$170k
$191k
General Counsel
highest compensated employee
$155k
$174k
Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion
highest compensated employee
$144k
$161k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 6 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Science & Technology

Up 5%
from 2022

From $222k in 2022 to $233k in 2023.

$222k
2022
$233k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 1% in real terms$259k to $262k

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

SOFTWARE FREEDOM CONSERVANCY INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$4.2M
$3.7M
2022
$2.5M
$4.5M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Science & Technology executives earn

Comparable science & technology organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $111,215.

25th percentile
$35k
Median
$111,215
75th percentile
$231k
90th percentile
$443k

These are science & technology sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 255 organizations across 255 filings (2022 – 2023).

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