From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03182138359 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E5A3E0843; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ed1-f53.google.com (mail-ed1-f53.google.com [209.85.208.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B897E0841 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 21:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ed1-f53.google.com with SMTP id n2so22066140edr.5 for ; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:44:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=w454T8QvNuXETaPaSX/qFsHgkKpX++y76mxgrHRf6mQ=; b=bTPaWl1Rui4pdE1tmaYqfAZ5UuB3ER+8G579IguvvUKS8hiJZo9fCcI2ArVpKUdz5Z lDxlEAPTWyLUiomGx9mg7RstqpTxGwPMm9wzpldv/6MIN4cI3wz2H0+pIVyboIQlZOKq dtwksG75uQpuQH3wjGcxYyuGngxFi16XGFzwT3cIl+SUsXeJBV8O4kk5fTJj47YWgn8T YI1Cy6a+Su+4/TK4blNCZI4eFqrdTXRa743xBaXyMs714dvIUKSiSYp72PhEM0pviv+5 zZVOyOUYTn4EMTAvNvVqj9TeBox3OCm8i1fk1d/kcE9SyVYUflVt4p4GpxyCJugMX2N7 +9iw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530LnqQPajV5kINjUv+rCL6fONmGQNY7MhEmtsmh9O2pP9ORJKOE Yw7jPx92rHqMI+W9fWycX3ZupB3Df7T2zus16Wg8ww== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJy+12G1HT9sCZQNdSQgDmZ/ZsjH35sLU5kx5Yrq6ILwQuXYBEAT/CiDlrGNZFBWaY03H+9DWwNsz8DHzDH/HxI= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:2065:: with SMTP id bd5mr43083855edb.67.1593899042317; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200704193316.ae2d3f0fd3908036301c10c5@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20200704193316.ae2d3f0fd3908036301c10c5@gentoo.org> From: Rich Freeman Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 17:43:50 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Council candidates: Future of the Foundation To: gentoo-project Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: e1ec879e-414d-4a5b-88f2-5e96ce6ef458 X-Archives-Hash: 2ca2f61e544b570a68001beabb5a2c36 On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:33 PM Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > This is one more aspect to this: some companies double donations > for 501c3 organizations. A friend of mine works in a large > corporation with HQ is the US and told me that his employer doubles > any donations made to 501c3, so he made no donation for Gentoo, > because that will mean loosing money for community which otherwise > can be doubled. So it is likely that 501c3 will increase incoming > donations. That is a really good point and I'll expand on this. Some organizations will only donate money to 501c3 organizations. Basically they're letting the IRS do the due diligence around whether the organization is actually charitable. They can potentially also receive tax benefits this way. If you want to receive grants/donations from other 501c3 organizations you will be far more likely to get them if you are yourself a 501c3 organization. These transactions receive far less scrutiny than transfers from 501c3s to other types of corporations. -- Rich