On Thu, August 28, 2008 00:43, Thomas Dalton wrote:
That seems pretty clear to me. You have no control over what the WMF does with the money, so it giving money to them would not count as charitable. You can spend the money on things for the WMF (new servers, for instance, which I believe the German chapter has done), but you can't just hand over the cash.
If a Charity (any Charity) makes a grant to "something else" be that a person, an organisation, whatever, in line with its Objects then the Charity has carried out its task of using the money correctly. There is no requirement to have particular things done with that cash post-donation (though it would be normal for a report on how the money was used to be made available to a funder).
The way you seem to be suggesting things would seem to encompass the initial receiving Charity having control over the cash it receives and gives out until .. well, when? forever, it seems.
The Deutschland chapter has specific issues with using money outside of the country under German law, which do not apply here to the same extent.
Alison