Dear Kassia, Thank you very much. I am currently struggling to square the figures in the reports on Meta with the figures provided in the Form 990.
For example, the Form 990 for the 2020-2021 financial year lists grantmaking activities for various regions on pages 30–31 (with the same figures then repeated on pages 32–35, split into grants for organisations and individuals). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e4/Wikimedia_Foundation_2020_Form_990.pdf#page=30 The grantmaking amounts listed there sum to $3,475,062, don't they? (That is the total at the bottom of page 31.) Could you tell us where we can find that same figure on Meta-Wiki? Or, if we can't find it, what is the difference in the reporting methods used on Meta-Wiki vs. the Form 990? Best, Andreas On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 6:23 PM Kassia Echavarri-Queen < kechavarriqu...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Lodewijk, > > Thank you for the question. We have published on meta the Funding > Distribution report > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Reports/Funding_Report_2021-2022>for > grants allocation for the past fiscal year as well as the prior two years. > There are further regional learnings being shared on diff, here is the post > from the ESEAP region > <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/11/03/our-future-success-lies-in-the-investments-that-we-make-today/>. > We will also soon be publishing both a regional learning sessions on > grantee self reported programming and impact report, as well as, a report > on the feedback from applicants and committee members from the second round > of funding from the first year of implementation of the new funds programs > and regional committees. > > Thank you, > Kassia > > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 9:29 AM effe iets anders <effeietsand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Over the past year I've had the pleasure to serve on one of WIkimedia's >> regional funding committees >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Committees>. Together, these >> committees get to allocate several millions of grant funding on behalf of >> our movement. >> >> As I tried to have conversations about that, I noticed that the actual >> amounts that each committee is allowed to allocate in their region, is not >> published. I asked about this, and the response I get is that this is >> "internal information" and it might make things cluttered (I don't know if >> this is because the question got stuck in bureaucracy or because there is >> an actual concern for clutter - I do have to admit that the grants pages >> can be terribly confusing, but don't see how these numbers would change >> that). >> >> I believe that it is important for transparency reasons, if not >> essential, that we all know how much money in grants we are spending and >> will be spending over the years in the various regions. Is there a stronger >> reason to keep this information confidential/secret? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Lodewijk >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/4KE2SITV6PBDUIZIUZNQ4BOBEJFJGXKY/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VBJ72RNANCYZ4IORUDTIIWHNUGPJ4DUR/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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