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Appropedia Foundation
990EZ • Fiscal year 2020 • EIN 20-8982657
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Net Margin
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Balance Sheet
Assets
Flat$12,033
Flat from 2020
Net Assets
Flat$12,033
Flat from 2020
Liabilities
-
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Revenue And Expenses
Revenue
Flat$53,152
Flat from 2020
Expenses
Flat$50,010
Flat from 2020
Net Income
Flat$3,142
Flat from 2020
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Filing Snapshot
- Filing Period
- Jan 1, 2020 to Dec 31, 2020
- Signed
- Aug 30, 2021
- Return Version
- 2020v4.0
- Gross Receipts
- $53,152
Mission and Program Overview
Mission
The Appropedia Foundation unites a diverse group of people around a powerful calling: enabling a sustainable and accessible process of knowledge creation and dissemination for everyone. We share knowledge, technologies and skills with the potential to produce effects in terms of health, climate change, and international development, among others. Through combined abilities and interests, we join efforts to solve global issues. Since 2005 Appropedia Foundation has developed Appropedia, one of the broadest assets for sustainability knowledge on the planet. Communities from nonprofits, academia, and committed individuals have relied on Appropedia to generate technological capacities related to appropriate tecnology: low cost and viable solutions that anybody can reproduce and use according to their needs. Appropedia can aid sustainable development since it improves cooperatively arranging data, project models, best practices and how to's. For example, university courses in numberious nati
Program Services
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Expanded the Foundation's value proposition and fundraising strategy for 2020-2021, site improvements to Appropedia.org, project documentation support for university courses. Worked with the Global Surgical Training Challenge and partner organizations (Intuitive Foundation, MIT Solve, Nesta Challenges; designed tools and documentation guidelines to create low-cost surgical training modules on Appropedia. Provided community support and communication materials for the competition. | $26,875 | - |
| Updated and improved the Appropedia.org website and reached over 1,000,000 users. | $24,000 | - |
Compensation and Service Providers
Employees
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emilio Velis | Executive Director | FT | $14,900 | - | $14,900 |
| Lonny Grafman | Board Member | - | $0 | - | - |
| Curt Beckmann | Board Member | - | $0 | - | - |
| Andrew Lamb | Board Member | - | $0 | - | - |
| Chris Watkins | Board Member | - | $0 | - | - |
Filing and Contact Details
Filer
- Filer Name
- Appropedia Foundation
- EIN
- 20-8982657
- Phone
- 7078456454
- Address
- PO Box 1083, Arcata, CA 95518
Signing Officer
- Name
- Emilio Velis
- Title
- Executive Director
- Signed
- 2021-08-30
- Discuss with paid preparer
- Yes
Preparer
- Firm
- Tax Office SF
- Address
- 513 Valencia St Ste 4, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Preparer
- Aaron Phillips
- Phone
- 4158641828
Supplemental Narrative
Additional Explanations
Other Expenses.1003
“Information Technology $3088”
Other Expenses.1
“Misc. Expenses $163”
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Displayed year
2020 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
- Assets
- $12,033
- Liabilities
- -
- Net assets
- $12,033
- Revenue
- $53,152
- Expenses
- $50,010
- Net income
- $3,142