[Board] [EXTERNAL] Re: Project sponsoring

[Michael Smith]

Ok. I'll reach out to Alan. 

Michael Smith
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers

> On Feb 21, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
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>> On 2016-02-21 2:30 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>> Daniel,
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>> It was my understanding that this was prohibited as a 501c3 as we would be able to receive pre tax funds and using tax exempt funds was the issue. As a 501c4, this is all post tax money so it shouldn't matter. The IRS concern was companies spinning off software development to foundations and funding them with tax exempt money.
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> I hope I'm wrong, but that was not my understanding. I'd suggest you talk to either Alan or our attorney or another tax specialist to confirm that your reasoning is valid before you proceed to re-establish the project sponsorship program.
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> Please note that I just added to the wiki page two more documents from our attorney that discuss this in more details. Those were shared with the board at the time but that was already a few years ago, an they were not linked to the wiki page until just now:
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> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/board/irs_docs/OSGeo-IRS-attorney-advice-and-suggestions-20121029.pdf 
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> and
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> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5072628/0/OSGeo-IRS%20advice%20and%20suggestions-2.pdf
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