Anthere wrote:
Dunno what are SSN's and EIN...
SSN = Social Security Number Used as an identifying number for US citizens (and legal residents) in a lot of settings, especially financial. Knowledge of someone's number has great potential to allow identity theft, so should not be published under any circumstances. EIN = Employer Identification Number Assigned mostly to corporations for tax purposes. Not used for as many other things as an SSN, so there's a lot less potential for misuse. 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.
--Michael Snow
Michael Snow wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Dunno what are SSN's and EIN...
SSN = Social Security Number Used as an identifying number for US citizens (and legal residents) in a lot of settings, especially financial. Knowledge of someone's number has great potential to allow identity theft, so should not be published under any circumstances. EIN = Employer Identification Number Assigned mostly to corporations for tax purposes. Not used for as many other things as an SSN, so there's a lot less potential for misuse. 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.
--Michael Snow
Okay. Yes, we received such propositions from employees (donations to a charity from their paychecks). afaik, that number is not published. That might be a choice. An alternative is that such programs must be made available by the employer himself, who can contact us beforehand (through OTRS...) and make the number available for the employees.
Michael ? opinion ?
ant
On 6/4/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Okay. Yes, we received such propositions from employees (donations to a charity from their paychecks). afaik, that number is not published. That might be a choice. An alternative is that such programs must be made available by the employer himself, who can contact us beforehand (through OTRS...) and make the number available for the employees.
Michael ? opinion ?
This number is public knowledge, available to any of us through a simple Web search, and has already been mentioned on this list.
Austin
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@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.
-- mav
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On 6/6/06, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@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... [3] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/aa/501%28c%29%283%29_Lett...
Anthony
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