Tax issues. I can’t find the original thread now, but its been repeatedly stated that it causes legal issues if SI get to much of its funding from a small number of sources.\
It would probably need to be much larger fractions for those sorts of issues to be relevant. In general, the IRS doesn’t mind donations coming from a few large donors when they aren’t too closely connected and there are other donors as well.
But surely there are ways around this? The first idea that comes to mind for me, couldn’t they create an offshoot organization that’s not officially part of SI but still collaborates closely? If not, there has to be some other way around it.
edited to add: Of course there may be good reasons not to do the first idea I suggested above, I’m just saying that someone who wants to spend millions on SIAI-related funding probably wouldn’t have trouble doing so for purely legal reasons.
Tax issues. I can’t find the original thread now, but its been repeatedly stated that it causes legal issues if SI get to much of its funding from a small number of sources.\
It would probably need to be much larger fractions for those sorts of issues to be relevant. In general, the IRS doesn’t mind donations coming from a few large donors when they aren’t too closely connected and there are other donors as well.
But surely there are ways around this? The first idea that comes to mind for me, couldn’t they create an offshoot organization that’s not officially part of SI but still collaborates closely? If not, there has to be some other way around it.
edited to add: Of course there may be good reasons not to do the first idea I suggested above, I’m just saying that someone who wants to spend millions on SIAI-related funding probably wouldn’t have trouble doing so for purely legal reasons.