I.A.P.P.P.

Gifts and Contributions to the IAPPP

I.A.P.P.P., Inc.
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In June 1980, I.A.P.P.P. was founded in Fairborn, Ohio by Douglas S. Hall and Russell M. Genet.

In 1984 I.A.P.P.P. was incorporated in the state of Tennessee.

Shortly thereafter, I.A.P.P.P.,Inc. was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS as a not-for-profit organization.

The current President of I.A.P.P.P., Inc. is Douglas S. Hall. The FEIN number assigned was 58-1581573.

Steps taken by I.A.P.P.P. to minimize expenses.
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The 501(c)(3) tax exempt status probably has led to more monetary gifts and contributions, especially relatively large ones, than otherwise would have been the case.

The 501(c)(3) tax exempt status has made it possible for I.A.P.P.P. to mail the Communications to U.S. members at the USPS special discounted rate postage rate applicable to not-for-profit organizations.

The 501(c)(3) tax exempt status has also made it possible for I.A.P.P.P. to avoid paying state sales tax. This is especially helpful for big ticket items like our printing costs. At this point in time, sales tax in the state of Tennessee is 9.75 percent!

In recent years a generous grant from the NSF. has underwritten the $5,000 cash award given to the winner of the Richard D. Lines Special Award given by I.A.P.P.P. at each year's International Science and Engineering Fair.

None of the editors, co-editors, assistant editors, etc. of the Communications has ever received a penny of salary. The same is true for the officers of I.A.P.P.P., inc. as an incorporated entity.

The costs of hosting the new IAPPP.org web site on Jeff Hopkins' server are absorbed completely by Jeff. This represents quite a generous gift.

The Only Regular Source of Income - Subscriptions
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The annual subscription rate has increased only once since I.A.P.P.P. began in June 1980 - from the original of $15.00 per year to the $25.00 per year that is still in effect.

We have hesitated to raise the rate because, frankly, we are a bit embarrassed by the lag in publishing and mailing out of the Communications. Otherwise, something like $50.00 per year would seem to be called for.

Expenses - Regular and Extraordinary
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1. Editor-in-Chief Terry D. Oswalt must pay students at FIT for help with editing and preparing each issue of the Communications. He has no full-time editorial assistant nor secretarial help that can be dedicated to the task.

2. Printing of the Communications has become more expensive as we have switched to a digital printing service that provides superior reproduction quality, but charges for it.

3. Postage costs certainly have increased since June 1980. We are mailing out issues of the Communications to U.S. members at the not-for-profit rate, which saves us a bundle but is a major hassle. Mailing outside the U.S. (including Canada) is much, much more expensive, even though we do minimize postage costs by using an international mailing consolidation service.

4. We still do not charge more to non-US members, even though the postage costs are much more. That is the price we pay for being a truly international organization. That has always been part of the I.A.P.P.P. philosophy.

5. A number of subscriptions are provided free of charge to some number of members: life members, a few honorary members, several individuals or organizations or observatories in countries that find it impossible to come up with U.S. dollars, and some editors who are sent the Communications as an editorial courtesy.

6. I.A.P.P.P. still provides a subsidy to hosts of I.A.P.P.P. Symposia who incur an actual shortfall in the net expense of executing their Symposium.

7. Despite the generous grant from the NSF, I.A.P.P.P. must cough up the $200.00 fee to Science Service, the outfit that puts on the ISEF each year. Moreover, if someone from I.A.P.P.P. officiates as a judge and officially bestows the Lines Award, that judge expects reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses.

Please Make a Gift or Contribution to I.A.P.P.P.
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As you can gather from reading the above, I.A.P.P.P. definitely needs additional money over and above the money it receives from subscriptions, its sole source of regular income.

Contributions to I.A.P.P.P. (over and above the annual subscription costs and the cost of ordering back issues of the Communications) can be considered tax deductible.

Write a check payable to "I.A.P.P.P.", indicate that it is meant to be a gift, and mail it to co-editor Douglas S. Hall

In years past, such gifts and contributions were acknowledged by listing donor names in issues of the Communications, on the "Supporting Members" feature page.

Our plan now is to continue this listing of donor names in the new IAPPP.org web site, at the bottom of this "Gifts and Contributions to IAPPP" web page.

If you have recently made a contribution to I.A.P.P.P. and we have failed to acknowledge your contribution, please inform co-editor Douglas S. Hall. We will correct this oversight and thank you again.