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That's the average, sure, but since Amazon allows each customer to pick a charity, I imagine some charities got a lot more, and some a lot less.

According to my account page, I've generated $100.71 for the charity I selected, and, overall, they've received $273.64 as a part of the program. So I guess the charity I selected wasn't all that popular. But I expect other, more mainstream charities, were.

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The FSF has received almost 35k. That's not bad imo.

Amazon (via Smile) and Microsoft (via employee donations) are probably the two biggest funding sources for the FSF.

Their patrons page says otherwise: https://www.fsf.org/patrons

“Patron pages for past fiscal years” section

These are ones that they want to name.

It would be politically inconvenient for the FSF to accept that they get donations in kind from Amazon or Microsoft, given the FSF's regular attacks on the two companies.

We give to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who according to the app have received $315k up to Nov 2022.

Sad to see this program go.

SPLC, like most non-profits, is a scam https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-mo...

I can't decide which is funnier, the fact that you think a fifteen-year-old experience is relevant now, or the fact they had to update the story multiple times because the author kept getting facts wrong. Not exactly a slam dunk on backing up the "most non-profits are a scam" claim.

Huh? The article is less than three years old; nothing but the first and last few paragraphs focus on the author's 15-year-old experience; and the couple of corrections at the end were fairly trivial, especially for such a long article.

The SPLC is one of the non-profits that is most responsible for this general assumption. The only one that might be more of a household name as a bad non-profit is Komen.

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