Annual General Meetings/2020/Treasurer’s report
Treasurer’s report for the December 2020 AGM
Unless specified, figures are preliminary, in GBP, and rounded. The comma is used as a thousands separator.
Detailed reports:
- Official Financial Statement 2019 (PDF as submitted to HMRC - contains income and balance sheet)
- Profit and Loss 2020 (preliminary, year to date, for 2020-12-12)
- Balance Sheet 2020 (preliminary, year to date, for 2020-12-12)
Key figures
Asset balance (Bank, debts, equipment and depreciation) at the beginning of the period (last AGM): 550,000 Of which bank balance at the beginning of the period: 490,000
Asset balance at the end of the period: 646,000 Of which bank balance at the end of the period: 524,000
Corporate income is a significant part of our income, through memberships, SotM sponsorships and donations to support staffing. Individual memberships are up slightly at 15,600 (2019: 14,500); donations are up significantly at 37,000 (2019: 20,500)
Net profit is up significantly at 87,000 (2019: 17,000), mostly because we had very little costs for SotM.
Significant events
New bank
Our change of bank was the treasurer’s most significant event in 2020. Barclays decided to terminate their relationship with us, and we moved our assets to Triodos Bank. We are also using TransferWise for our day-to-day banking.
Since Triodos doesn’t offer Euro accounts, we lost some of our savings to the currency exchange. On the other hand, Triodos offers a savings account, which is slowly accumulating interest.
New budget
The treasurer is working on setting up a new budget process that will make it easier to reconciliate actual spending with the budget - which we’ve never done before.
The budget process represents a significant workload for the treasurer, and doing a budget right after getting elected treasurer is impossible. The new board will approve a budget for the first half of 2021, and the next budgets will start and end in the summer.
Fundraising for core software and infrastructure stability and sustainability
This year, the Board resolved to support two roles for priority needs: a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Lead Developer / Maintainter for iD. With an estimated budget of approximately 225000 GBP, we set out to raise earmarked donations from companies, chapters and organisations.
We are pleased to report that this goal was reached, and greatly appreciate the generosity and support to keep OpenStreetMap running smoothly. The total pledged is approximately 285,000 GBP. These funds have all been committed, and are in various stages of administrative process, and we expect completion early in 2021.
Here is a summary of committed donations, in currency of the donation.
| Organization | Amount |
|---|---|
| Apple | $50K (for SSRE) |
| Amazon | $100K |
| Mapbox | $40K |
| ESRI | $40K |
| $100K | |
| TomTom | $20K |
| HOT | $10K |
| OSM US | $7,500 |
| Geofabrik | €2500 (corp membership upgrade) |
| Fossgis | €2500 |
| Kaart | $5000 |
For future years, we are looking at developing an overall plan for long-term support for OSMF infrastructure, and expect to seek multi-year commitments to support OSM core infrastructure with stability and predictability.