[Foundation-l] Where we are headed

Tue Jun 6 23:14:35 UTC 2006

On 6/6/06, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > One
> > use of interest to us is that if a company has a charitable giving
> > program in which employees can have an amount withheld from their
> > paychecks to the charity of their choice, the company would need the
> > charity's EIN. I'm not aware of any serious problem for a nonprofit
> > publishing this number (the American Red Cross publishes theirs on their
> > website). In fact, I've suggested putting ours out there in order to
> > make it easier for companies to add us to gift-matching programs, but
> > I'm not aware that this has been done yet.
>
> Our EIN has been on the foundation wiki for some time now:
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Deductibility_of_donations
>
> Of course, that whole set of pages needs to be re-done so finding things like that are easy.
>
Not to mention that the number is wrong.

The EIN for Wikimedia is 20-0049703 (according to the Florida Division
of Corporations [1], the 990-EZ filed by Wikimedia [2], and the
501(c)(3) letter [3]).  The page you gave says the EIN is 20-0049733.

[1] http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?a1=DETFIL&n1=N03000005323
[2] http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2004/200/049/2004-200049703-01b74bb2-Z.pdf
[3] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/aa/501%28c%29%283%29_Letter.png

Anthony