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…
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 <
kechavarriqueen(a)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 <effeietsanders(a)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
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