From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 11:29:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5650637B409 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from smtp.bmi.net (dsl-154.bmi.net [207.173.60.230]) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA26176; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:29:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:29:35 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Linh Pham Cc: "brian j . peterson" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the state of the FreeBSD Foundation? Message-ID: <20010613112935.I6020@johncoop> References: <20010613111847.B1329@malkavian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:13:14 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Lines: 35 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001.06.13 11:13 Linh Pham wrote: > On 2001-06-13, brian j. peterson scribbled: > > # the main reason i ask is that i would like to donate money to help the > # FreeBSD project, and, based on what i have read, i could get a tax- > # deduction out of the deal if i could donate to the FreeBSD Foundation. > # unfortunately, i can find no information about HOW to make a donation. > > Information about donations to the FreeBSD Project can be found here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib-how.html > > According to section 20.2.5.1, it seems like you cannot do a tax > write-off just because you donated money to FreeBSD (since they aren't a > 501(c)(3) chartiable organization). > > Instead, you should think about donating money to FreeBSD to help > further the project and allow the group to allocate more resources to > improve the software and anything within the FreeBSD project as much as > possible. > > You can send money to the address provided in the URL above or through > FreeBSDMall.com > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found > As noted in the previous thread, the handbook page is out of date. I believe someone in the know commented that that the FreeBSD Foundation IS IRC 501(c)(3) qualified--a charitable organization. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message