the February 2024 Beehaw Financial Update

obligatory preface: we're 100%-user funded and everything you donate to us specifically goes to the website, or any outside labor we pay to do something for us. you can donate here.

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overall expenses for January: $212.04

$139.16 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

• $112.00 for hosting the site itself
• $22.40 for backups
• $4.76 for site snapshots

$28.80 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)

• $24.00 for hosting Hive
• $4.80 for backups
• $0.00 for snapshots

~$39.16 for email functionality, which can be further subdivided into

• $35/mo for Mailgun (handles outbound emails, so approval/denial/notifications emails; also lets us not get marked as spam)
• ~$4.16/mo ($50/yr, already paid in full) for Fastmail (handles all inbound emails)

$4.92 for BackBlaze, (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean)

• we internally flagged this because we don't have an explanation for why this is so low this month--but, as far as we can tell it lines up with what it "should" be, so...

overall contributions in the past month: $696.59

• we received a single $193.32 one-time donation, while the remaining $503.27 was monthly

total end of year balance: $6,781.73

expense runway, assuming no further donations

• assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about two years and seven months of runway

finance history

	October	November	December	January	February
Contributions	$691.85	$596.28	$660.43	$562.79	$696.59
Expenses	$230.81	$231.54	$229.09	$230.68	$212.04
Difference	+$461.04	+$364.74	+$431.34	+$332.11	+$484.55
Balance	$5,198.47	$5,470.13	$5,926.29	$6,290.06	$6,781.73