Thank you for making a donation Wally! And thank you Derek for managing
the SourceForge Tip Jar!
https://gnucash.org/donate.phtml - the GnuCash donation page lists 2
ways to donate: the SF Tip Jar & the Argenta Bank account in Belguim run
by Geert Janssens.
In the USA, cash contributions/donations to what are called 501c3
nonprofit organizations (after the Internal Revenue Code section -
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/exemption-requirements-501c3-organizations)
are tax deductible (within limitations) for those US taxpayers that
itemize their tax deductions
(https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/can-i-deduct-my-charitable-contributions)
instead of taking the standard deduction
(https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/how-much-is-my-standard-deduction &
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/deductions-for-individuals-what-they-mean-and-the-difference-between-standard-and-itemized-deductions).
I have found few projects in the open source world take advantage of
this legal mechanism to both increase donations from Americans and
financially benefit their supporters. FreeCAD
(https://wiki.freecad.org/donate), Open Tax Solver
(https://please-fund-me.com/cgi-bin/render_fund_page.cgi?fund=67), even
bigger open source projects like the Linux Mint OS
(https://linuxmint.com/donors.php) and Libre Office
(https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/) do not seem to take advantage of
this tax saving tool for charitable organizations with American
donors/funders/supporters.
There is also a tool called fiscal sponsorship
(https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/running-nonprofit/administration-and-financial-management/fiscal-sponsorship-nonprofits)
that allows one organization to accept and distribute tax deductible
donations to its member organizations/projects. The Software Freedom
Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/) provides this service
(https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/) to many open source
projects (https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/), but in my
attempted interactions with SFC and in speaking with others in the North
Bay Linux Users Group (NBLUG - https://nblug.org/), I have gotten my
impression reinforced that SFC is not very responsive to its member
projects. SFC also refers to another nonprofit fiscal sponsor on its
website (https://sfconservancy.org/projects/apply/), Software in the
Public Interest (SPI - https://www.spi-inc.org/), but there may be
others. Oddly, as I am writing this out and learning more, I see that
Libre Office is listed as one of the SPI's fiscally sponsored projects
(https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/ >
https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/libreoffice/), but Libre Office's
donation page only specifies the tax deductibility of donations for
Germans under the "Click here for information about tax deductions"
section. Oh my, OK, there is a line about donations to Libre Office
through SPI being tax deductible to Americans under a different section,
"Click here for bank transfers (eg SEPA), and additional information for
US residents" - that is not a helpful section/topic design!
I better stop typing and thinking about this subject before I start
pulling out any more of what limited hair I have left on my head.
Hopefully, my points about fiscal sponsorship have been made and if
anyone else is interested, we can discuss the nuances further...
Brad
On 5/3/23 14:29, Wally Hackenslacker via gnucash-user wrote:
Done! Paypal transaction ID: 3U743030XD777840W
I know it's not much but I hope it's useful to the project.
Thank you Derek.
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El miércoles, 3 de mayo de 2023 a las 3:17 PM, Derek
Atkins<derek_at_ihtfp.com_3ecm6...@duck.com> escribió:
It is still working; I am the manager of the target paypal account, and I
report periodically to the core devs and act on their (our?) consensus on
disbursement.
Thank you in advance for your donation/contribution.
-derek
On Wed, May 3, 2023 2:57 pm, Wally Hackenslacker via gnucash-user wrote:
Hello all.
I wanted to ask what is the status of the SourceForge tip jar for GnuCash.
I'm looking to make a donation and the method that works for me is making
a Paypal donation through the tip jar but I wanted to make sure that it's
still working, if it is trustworthy and that the money will reach the devs
of the project.
Thanks.
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