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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by IshKebab on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:10PM (#37180619)
They definitely could spend all their money. If it becomes national news that your Wikipedia donations aren't really spent on Wikipedia then people might stop donating.

They spend $145m/year and raise about $155m/year, so they're basically spending everything they get.

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by readthenotes1 on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:14PM (#37180669)
Hm. If I had $10m surplus a year I wouldn't call it "basically spending everything".

Even if you ignore the fact that size matters, 93% isn't basically everything either.

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by IshKebab on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:05PM (#37182092)
If your revenue is based on $155m in donations then yes it is basically everything. You think that can't go down by $10m in a year?
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