Fundraising

From the Wikimedia Foundation

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Tax-deductibility of donations - Other donation methods

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization with the goal of providing free knowledge to every person in the world. Meeting this goal through the maintenance, development and distribution of free content, Wikimedia relies on public donations to run its wiki-based projects.

Wikimedia provides computing and network resources to create and distribute many reference works including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource and the Wikimedia Commons. The content of these projects is provided to the public free of charge.

How your donation will help

All of our sites are free from advertisements. Visitors are not charged to edit, read or use our content. We rely entirely on donations to fund our projects. Our unprecedented growth in traffic and content requires regular hardware updates to prevent outages without sacrificing functionality. Other outgoings include bandwidth costs, rackspace within a colocation center, purchase of Wikimedia's domain names, sponsorship of specific software development tasks, and, occasionally, travel expenses.

See Budget/2005 for our latest budget, which details where the money will go, and meta:Wikimedia servers/hardware orders for details of the hardware we ordered after our last fundraising drive.

The Wikimedia Foundation also requires funding to continue its pioneering role in exploring the field of collaborative content creation. In addition, we are pursuing grants to fund the packaging and distribution of Wikimedia content to places that do not have access to the Internet. Every donation can make a big difference. If you have any questions regarding donations or the Wikimedia Foundation, please contact us.

Donation methods

Donations are tax-deductible in the United States.
Donations may or may not be tax-deductible elsewhere. See deductibility of donations.

Online

Donate securely online with PayPal or MoneyBookers using the short forms linked below.

Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, eCheck

PayPal

One-time donations do not require a PayPal account

U.S. Dollars:
Once - Monthly - Yearly

Euros:
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Pounds Sterling:
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Canadian Dollars:
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Australian Dollars:
Once - Monthly - Yearly

Yen:
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MoneyBookers

Account name: donation@wikipedia.org
27 currencies accepted:
Euro, British Pound, Bulgarian Lev, U.S. Dollar, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Czech Koruna, Danish Krone, Estonian Koruna, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Israeli Shekel, Japanese Yen, Latvia Lat, Malaysian Ringgit, New Taiwan Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Norwegian Krone, Polish Zloty, Romanian New Leu, Singapore Dollar, Slovakian Koruna, Slovenian Tollar, South-African Rand, South-Korean won, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc and Thailand Baht. In most cases, the fees for MoneyBookers are lower than those for PayPal.

Postal mail

You can donate via regular mail to Wikimedia's mailbox at the following address:

Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

200 2nd Ave. South #358

St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313

Please make the check payable to 'Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.'

If you donate outside the U.S., please use an international money order or a check payable on a U.S. bank, to avoid collection costs. Sending a foreign check (or any other draft drawn on a bank outside the U.S.) may involve processing fees exceeding $50.

International money orders payable in the U.S. are available in post offices in many countries, and will ensure your complete donation goes to Wikimedia.

Please do not send currency through the mail.

Money transfer

The Wikimedia Foundation has a Dexia bank account in Belgium that accepts money transfers.

Account holder: Wikimedia Foundation

Bank: Dexia bank - Pachecolaan 44 - 1000 Brussel - Belgium

IBAN: BE43 0689 9999 9501

BIC (swift code): GKCCBEBB

For Belgium and countries not using the IBAN-system:

Belgian bank account number: 068-9999995-01

Disclaimer: Please note that neither this page nor any link on any Wikimedia site pointing to this page should be considered a solicitation to make a donation.