Hey everyone!
It’s hard to believe that we’re four months into this already, yet here we are - still saving citizens, smashing Skuls, and arresting lots of well-dressed fire-breathing cosplayers atop a meteor.
It’s time to talk finances again. In case you aren’t aware, our donation window has moved from the first Saturday of the month to the last Saturday of the month in order to align better with our billing schedule.
In October and going forward we will have some additional charges; we have engaged both a games industry specialist attorney and non-profit specialist attorney to provide us with legal advice and handle some legalese. We will not be posting the invoices for their services in order to protect their identities, but we will be including their service fees in our donation windows after this month.
Finally, we wanted to go ahead and let you all know that we are looking into alternate hosting for better stability and support. While this is still likely a few months out, we wanted to go ahead and let the community know as this may significantly change our monthly operating costs compared to previous months which have been mostly static.
Now, here are the breakdowns for the past and upcoming month.
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July Breakdown
Last month we accepted $4,897.06 in donations - $1,773.13 over our target (this happens when donations are processing or pending at the time that the system closes). The $1,773.13 will be going towards September’s upkeep, reducing the amount that we need to take in.
Here's what the funds from the July donation window went towards:
$4,717.40 to OVH for our servers
$96.00 to Google for our G-Suite account
$10.00 to Atlassion for Jira Cloud (10-user)
(New) $30.00 to 1&1 IONOS for domain / email service.
Here is a screenshot of our payments / expenses since the last donation window:
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September Breakdown
After adding a 1&1 IONOS charge of $30.00 in July, our monthly expenses have settled in at $4,853.40. We do not have any planned additional expenses for September and our $1,250.00 contingency fund is still full. As we are currently $1,743.13 over from the July’s donations, this amount will be subtracted from our donation target for the month of September. All of this brings our September donation target to $3,110.27.
Here is an updated list of our recurring (monthly) expenses:
$4,717.40 to OVH for our servers
$96.00 to Google for our G-Suite account
$10.00 to Atlassion for Jira Cloud (10-user)
(New) $30.00 to 1&1 IONOS for domain / email service.
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The donation system will be open as of the time of this post until our monthly target of $3,110.27 has been met, at which point the system will automatically close.
The donation goal for September has been hit and donations are now closed. Thank you!
Thank you all for your continued support! We know things have been a little slow lately, but rest assured that we’re still working on things :).