2019 financial filings for the ARDC, Inc. have been published by
the Californian Register of Charities:
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http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Download.aspx?saveas=Amateur+Radio+D…
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http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Download.aspx?saveas=Amateur+Radio+D…
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https://www.ampr.org/about/legal/ (links)
TL;DR summary:
1. Sale price of $26/IP (to Amazon) minus 0.5% brokage commission [1]
2. $109 million raised, $545 thousand paid to Nationwide as broker
3. Funds now classified as Board-designated Endowment
4. Majority raised now invested in government bonds
Trustees for 2019 are listed as:
Brian Kantor - Former president
Bdale Garbee - Treasurer
Phil Karn - New president
John Gilmore - Secretary
KC Claffy is listed as a non-officer director---possibly for
CAIDA conflict-of-interest handling(?)
Erin Kenneally is no longer listed (nor referenced at all).
(Suspect that a clear answer may not be easier to find).
During Financial Year 2019, two grants were disbursed:
1. $10k - TAPR student scholarships
2. $110k - ARISS (International Space Station HAM)
Variations of the wording use in different places (paraphrased):
* "[support of] Amateur Radio Digital Communications"
* "[support of] Amateur Radio _and_ Digitial Communcations".
The latter is much wider than the former.
Hopefully the trustees can make their own announcement in due
course; but this should pre-answer the quick questions that people
may have, [2]
Before laying into the Trustees, this is pretty positive---cash was
raised, and has been sensibly invested. The way the sale was handled
was sub-optimal---picking the most dense/actively used part (HamNET)
to sell...; but hopefully lessons from that have been learnt.
Plus John Gilmore's long statement this week about the MoU with
CAIDA/UCSD, will hopefully allow Amprnet's most significant R&D/
experimentation/academic contribution over the last 20 years to be
finally be acknowleged openly,
-Paul
[1] To put things into perspective; had estimated was $24/IP, minus 1%
brokage commission---so the amount realised by the Trustees was
significantly higher; probably related to the size of the block sold,
and clean nature of the IPs.
[2] E&OE---refer to the actual documents for exact numbers + wording!
Do not rely on this TL;DR---spend your own time, and do your own
reading!