Daniel Mayer wrote:

--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:

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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.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'm glad to know that this did get done after all. I agree about reworking the site as well. One of the Communications committee's plans, which I need to do more work on, is trying to develop a better idea of what should actually be on the Foundation website as opposed to being on Meta.

--Michael Snow