[Osmf-talk] Anonymous Donations

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2016-11-04 13:55 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm <frederik at osmfoundation.org>:

> We're pretty sure that anonymously taking a donation of £50 or £100 or
> even £500 is acceptable. But what if someone wanted to give us, say,
> £50,000 anonymously? Or even more?
>
> Is it ok for us to take anonymous donations of any size? Or should there
> be an upper limit or some other conditions attached to donations?
>


I think truly anonymous donations would be OK (from out point of view), as
in "nobody knows who threw this suitcase full of cash through the open
window". But this is unlikely to happen (and would likely open other legal
questions like taxes, illegal activities etc.). For transparency reasons it
should not be possible to donate large sums of money without being
mentioned, for transparency reasons, as frequent large donations will make
us dependent from the donor and at least the membership should be aware of
it.

A sane threshold could be 1 or 2% of our annual budget.

Cheers,
Martin
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