Financial situation of The Matrix.org Foundation · Issue #571 · matrix-org/matrix-spec

And I'm happy to share more details.

Process wise: we finally have a Governing Board and a Finance & Fundraising Committee, and I shared rough figures with them last night. I'm gunna work through things with the Committee when we meet in early March, and then share more. I'm really sorry it's taken so long.

And in terms of numbers, out of the $1.2M annual costs we mention there, here's the rough breakdown:

$360K/yr – Trust & Safety
$250K/yr – Other folks, covering program management, legal, compliance, finance, IT, security, dev
$240K/yr – Server and SRE
$170K/yr – My salary, covering fundraising, open governance, community relations, biz ops, and people mgmt
$150K/yr – Matrix Conf + other events
$30K/yr – Assorted expenses like travel, lodging, productivity infra

And much more info in the link

Maybe my search skills are bad, but I didn't find anything on the matrix.org page. However, there seem to be filings on the UK government's website. I can't read legalese and accounts, but from what I'm seeing, the numbers don't add up in 2023 (page 8) with the last comment about 1.2M/year annual costs.

Am I missing something? What's going on?

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