[mik3y]

Propublica has a nonprofit explorer (similar to Guidestar, but free) and tax filing viewer here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

According to their FY2021 990 filing, they had $442k of "other" expenses.

It seems like they're required to disclose what those expenses are on the Schedule O form if they exceed 10% of all expenses, which they do, but I don't see the expenses enumerated there. (edit: oops, now I see)

I am, err, not a tax professional so I stopped here..

[monitron]

Out of their $443,020 expenses in 2021, the biggest line item expense was $187,262 for "CONSULTANTS." Their next biggest was $169,383 of merchant processing fees. It will be interesting to see their Form 990 for 2022, which is presumably the "last year" Ben Fry is talking about..

[didibus]

Damn, that's what? Do I need an MBA to understand why they'd need to spend on consultants and merchant processing fees?

[rudedogg]

The merchant fees are probably just credit card or crypto fees from then accepting donations.

[itomato]

gas

[nameisnttaken]

developers, especially developers that work with a large contributor base on open-source projects, often get paid by non-profits under a consultant label

[mik3y]

Ah, right you are! I completely missed that.

[monitron]

It’s easy to miss, the 990 is a maze! I just happened to get lucky – my work had me doing a project on 990 data recently.