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10% of their income is likely the majority of their profits, which are probably in the neighborhood of 10-15%.
by mywittyname 5y ago
10% of their income is likely the majority of their profits, which are probably in the neighborhood of 10-15%.
- mytailorisrich 5y agoA charity does not make any profit. The point being that, approximately, for every £10 that they get through donations or any other source, £9 goes to costs and £1 to actual charitable activities. Personally I would not donate to such a charity.
- SirSourdough 5y agoHow does the fact that RPi produces a physical product factor into this? If I contribute money to a charity that distributes that money directly to people in need, then I expect a high portion of that money to go to charity, but I don’t know that that is a fair expectation when most people “donate” to RPi by buying a low margin physical product. It’s not a pure charitable contribution to buy a Pi. But maybe I don’t understand how the costs are broken out between the foundation and RPi Trading.
- gchadwick 5y ago> for every £10 that they get through donations or any other source, £9 goes to costs From the accounts I linked they received a bit over £3.5m in donations that year (they're listed in two different places one around £400k the other around £3.1m I don't know why they're accounted differently), spending £7.8m on charitable activities that same year. So in a sense they're managing to double their donations via their profitable trading to generate money for charitable activity spending.