Legal & fiscal steward
Magogi Foundation
The nonprofit that holds the legal and fiscal responsibilities, so the community can build without carrying them individually.
Recognition pending Washington nonprofit corporation — federal 501(c)(3) recognition pending
Magogi Foundation is a Washington nonprofit corporation. The incorporation date and unified business identifier are on the certificate. Federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending, and the application has not yet been filed. The Foundation holds the legal and fiscal responsibilities; it does not decide the engineering.
On file
The facts, as the documents state them.
Two documents stand behind this record: a state certificate and a federal identification notice. Neither is published here — the facts on them are, with the document named.
- Legal form
- Washington nonprofit corporation attestedWashington Certificate of Incorporationcheckable at source: Washington Secretary of State corporate search, by UBI Washington Certificate of Incorporation, issued by the Washington Secretary of State. The instrument itself is not published; the facts on it are.
- Incorporated
- 11 May 2026 The date the certificate records.
- Unified business identifier
- UBI 606 216 195 The identifier the state assigned — the key a stranger can look the corporation up by.
- Employer identification number
- EIN 42-4297206 attestedIRS employer-identification-number confirmation notice (CP575E) Assigned 6 August 2026 (IRS employer-identification-number confirmation notice (CP575E)). The Foundation has been assigned a federal employer identification number. It is an identifier, not a tax status.
- Federal 501(c)(3) recognition
- Pending Federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending, and the application has not yet been filed.
- Deductibility of gifts
- Not deductible today Donations are not tax-deductible today, and this site will not say otherwise before the determination letter exists.
The scanned instruments are held by the Foundation and are not served from this site. The corporation can be looked up by its unified business identifier in the Washington Secretary of State's corporate search.
Why stewardship matters
Shared responsibilities can't live on one person's laptop.
Foundational software needs continuity. Signing keys, infrastructure, trademarks, funds and decision records have to outlast any single contributor — and be held accountably.
The Foundation holds the legal and fiscal responsibilities; it does not decide the engineering.
Magogi Foundation is incorporated as a Washington nonprofit. Federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending and the application has not yet been filed, so gifts are not deductible today.
What the Foundation holds
Each responsibility, with the state it is actually in.
| Held | What it means | Why it matters | State today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funds | Donations, grants and sponsorship | Shared work needs shared resources | Nonprofit; recognition pending; no public drive running |
| Infrastructure | Build, package and logging services the fleet runs on | The community's work depends on it staying up | Operated by the Foundation |
| Trademarks | The Magogi name and marks | Protects people from a fake “official” build | Filing planned; nothing registered yet |
| Signing keys | The keys that make a release official | Proves an artifact really came from this project | Held by the Foundation; no public key list yet, so an outsider cannot verify a signature |
| Continuity | Custody of records and responsibilities over time | The work has to outlive any one contributor | Ongoing |
| Decision records | Decisions and their evidence, kept | Stewardship can be inspected rather than asserted | Ongoing |
- A trademark filing is planned; nothing is registered yet.
- Signing keys are held by the Foundation. Nothing published yet lets an outsider verify a signature, so this page claims no more than custody.
- The Foundation runs its own build, package and logging infrastructure.
Tax status
Federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending, and the application has not yet been filed. Donations are not tax-deductible today, and this site will not say otherwise before the determination letter exists. An employer identification number is an identifier the IRS assigns; it is not tax-exempt status, and this site does not treat it as one.
attestedIRS employer-identification-number confirmation notice (CP575E)
How funds are used
Funds go to grants and contractor payments for open-source work, to community operations, and to the shared infrastructure the fleet runs on. Administrative overhead is kept minimal, and restricted donations are tracked separately. No public donation drive is running today — the support that is open is described on the support page.
Governance
The Foundation is governed by its nonprofit board. Beyond that, the engineering runs on an evidence-gated discipline: significant changes walk the same path, and the path has gates that are able to fail. Claims are checked by tools wherever a tool can check them. The honest-state record of what exists today lives on the status page.
Contact
Funding and partnerships: info@magogi.org. Legal and licensing: legal@magogi.org. Or read how support works.