Thinking of attending National Night Out?

[giza]

 
Did you know that Matt A. Peskin, the organization's founder, pockets one-third of their annual budget for his personal salary? Yep, it's right here in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He gets paid $255,000 per year.

There's also some venting about it over on Philly Future and the Save Ardmore Coalition website.

Comments

[simbab.livejournal.com]

It must be nice to be able to set your own salary.

[giza.livejournal.com]

He'd make a fine congressman.

Expect that he's making MORE than them. o.O

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Ah.. Charity begins at home.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I read Anthrocon's Form 990s like a hawk. ;-)

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

if you reap the green, who sows it? >:}~

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

I reaps what I sows! (http://greenreaper.livejournal.com/40361.html)

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

SHODAN commands you to do silverscalenaga's finances when there is money to spread around, insect.

(reference to shodan speech. hopefully i didn't piss you off or give you the wrong impression. playful was intent.)

[taral.livejournal.com]

AC's 990s are available for perusal? :)

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

But of course. Exempt organizations are required to provide the last three years' 990s on request (http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=96430,00.html), and must even send you copies within 30 days for a nominal charge.

I don't normally get them through this method, because you can get them online a few months later via GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org/) or Foundation Center (http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/990finder/), but it's worth bearing in mind if you want to know and the filing date has just passed (it takes the IRS a while to get the originals scanned). Note that non-profits can file 3-month extensions to delay filing, so you should be specific about what year you're getting, otherwise you might get the previous one.

Summaries of the information in the reports are integrated into WikiFur's yearly convention listings - for example, Anthrocon 2005 (http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Anthrocon_2005#Financials).

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Mutual funds: "We are Many, and you . . . are one. How can you hope to prevail against us?"

[taral.livejournal.com]

Nifty. Of course, the 2006 returns aren't available yet -- I know we (FACT, a local nonprofit of which I am treasurer) haven't filed ours yet. But the '04 and '05 returns are quite enlightening.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Indeed. The 2006 ones will be interesting because they should give a good accounting of the costs for the convention center. Kage said that it ended up in the black . . . which I guess I could see, given the profits in the previous years.

Judging by previous years' filing dates, they're probably available direct from the source - but eh, I can wait a bit until they get 'em up. :-)