[Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

[Anthony]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Gregory Varnum
<gregory.varnum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically a charity in the USA can spend up to 20% of its expenses on "direct lobbying" of related issues.

20% of the first $500,000, 15% of the next $500,000, 10% of the next
$500,000, and 5% of the rest, with a cap of $1 million.

The limit for "grassroots lobbying", such as the blackout, is 25% of that.

And this is all only if they make an election under 501(h).

>> Basically that means they can say "this is good and that's good" - but they can't actually endorse a party or individual.

This is grassroots lobbying, not direct lobbying.

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