Hello,
I am currently working on preparing the budget for 2026 and would like to share the individual steps here with you.
In the end, there will be a spreadsheet, that - in redacted form, to ensure confidentiality of several items - will be made public.
I’ve prepared the general overview and just had a call with the accountant, who confirmed the numbers. They are obviously based on the preliminary closing ledgers and might slightly change before the final approval of the closing ledgers.
Numbers as of January 1
Calculation for 2026
Sum of available funds: 3.831.709,41 €
Funds not to be used/already bound
Capital stock: 50.000,00 €
Free reserves incl. those built from 2025 incl. capital investment: 1.458.980,87 €
Credit card/VAT/claims: 102.997,57 €
Available for 2026: 2.219.730,97 €
Note: The “available” line is not the amount of money we can spend additionally in 2026. It is the total amount of money we must spend in 2026, as if there were no ongoing projects or recurring expenses (“all at zero”). What we can spend reduced by the existing commitments in terms of projects and recurring costs. In theory we could spend also the free reserves, but we do not have to.
For the details on our budgeting process, I’ve written a howto about that in the past.
I will follow-up with the next steps in this thread later on.
Florian