Donations

Donating Money

The Community Software Lab is a non-profit corporation based in the state of Massachusetts. We are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Your donation is tax deductible. Send your snailmail address to help@thecsl.org and we will send you a hard copy letter and receipt at the end of the year itemizing your donnations.

PayPal handles our credit card processing. Your credit card is secure because it is handled by a secure server at PayPal

You do not need an account at PayPal.

After you click the donate button, the link for non-paypal credit card processing is not always obvious, but it is there.

Checks may be mailed to:

Community Software Lab
P.O. Box 1418
Lowell, MA 01854

Financial Records

All our finanices are on the web. You may be particularly interested in our checkbook registry, our budget and the pie chart of income sources.

We are particularly proud of the percentage of donnations by "alumni", people who in volunteered or worked with us for less than $15,000 per year and then donated cash after their time with us.

We want our work to be completely transparent, so if you have questions about our finances, please send an email to help@thecsl.org

Donor privacy policy

Donations shall be considered anonymous by default. To the extent practical, knowledge of donor's identities will be restricted to those staff, volunteer and board members, who need such knowledge to do their jobs. We will publicly recognize those donors who wish recognition. Approved BOD 2006-05-22

Audits

With a budget of $15,000 per year, our finances are unaudited.

IRS form 990, return of organizations exempt from income tax

We have been a group since 2002, but became a tax exempt organization in August of 2006. We have not yet filled a 990.