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Donate via check. Write "Restricted funds - see attachment" on a check. On the attachment list check details and a restriction such as "Direct expenses for <bl
by notyourday 6y ago
Donate via check.
Write "Restricted funds - see attachment" on a check. On the attachment list check details and a restriction such as "Direct expenses for <blahblahblah> only." If you just do not want it to go to G&A fluff fund the execs use to live a large life, just exclude G&A: "<blah blah blah> purposes only. No G&A"
Regulations for non-profits aren't a joke. If they took your restricted funds, you bet they are going to follow the restrictions.
Non-profits may hate it but at the end it is money. So they take it. If they decline to cash the check, no skin off your back.
Source: lived in a non-profit land as a tech consultant. Heard constant bitching about big donors being smart and always restricting funds above a few hundred dollars. Execs of every non-profit that pretends it cannot deal with restrictions are taking the donor for suckers and are fleecing them.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago"G&A"?
- notyourday 6y agoGeneral and Administrative. For example, a catered lunch from a fancy restaurant that will have friends of the execs attend as a part of some presentation would be charged into G&A line.
- steveklabnik 6y agoOkay, but how does that money get from MoFo to MoCo? If MoFo made Firefox, this would make sense. But they don’t.
- notyourday 6y ago> Okay, but how does that money get from MoFo to MoCo? It is their problem, not my. They want money. It is restricted. Money is fungible. If they figure out how to use the money that is restricted then they need to spend less unrestricted money.
- steveklabnik 6y agoOkay, so, this is not actually practically possible today. Thanks for elaborating though! I didn't know about this feature of donations.