On 2023-08-29 21:14:43 Stuart Henderson <stu.lists () spacehopper ! org> wrote:
>On 2023-08-29, Katherine Mcmillan <kmcmi046@uottawa.ca> wrote:
>> To clarify, I'm looking for something with a similar structure at the US PostgreSQL
>> Association (which is a registered 501(c)(3) public charitable entity), but for BSD
>> or OpenBSD.
>I'm pretty sure there is nothing for OpenBSD like this.
Perhaps SPI (Software in the Public Interest) provides this capability
(if I understand correctly). I discovered this when I tried to donate
to Libreoffice, which is headquartered in Germany.
From SPI's wikipedia page:
Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization domiciled in New York State formed to help
other organizations create and distribute free open-source software
and open-source hardware. Anyone is eligible to apply for membership,
and contributing membership is available to those who participate in
the free software community.
Their web page is:
www.spi-inc.org
As nearly as I can tell, SPI handles all the paperwork and
interactions with the IRS, and allows people in the U.S. to donate to
a 501(c)3. This gives the donor a tax benefit. Donors who are used
to donating through a Donor Advised Fund are restricted by the DAF to
501(c)3 recipients. So OpenBSD might possibly attract some new donors.
Katherine Mcmillan mentioned PostgreSQL. I see on
https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/
that PostgreSQL is one of the projects that already use SPI for its
donations.
The downside is that SPI charges 5% for this service. It looks to me
like Paypal and the credit cards charge about half that, but they
don't provide 501(c)3 status.
I have no connection with SPI, other than donating through them, and I
don't know for sure how easy it would be for OpenBSD to interact with
them. And I am not advocating for them, just mentioning their
existence on the off chance that people were not familiar with them.
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