Old Bookkeeping Records

I started the openagenda project in early 2005, with about $180,000 available to give away. Most of that money came from my Mom, in gifts made to me between 1996 and 2003.

For the purposes of the new openagenda project, it's enough just to know what the total amount available is. Probably nobody cares too much about the historical accounting details: when the money came in, or what the investment gains were over the years, or what charitable donations I made with the money prior to 2005. But I needed to keep track of all that for myself anyway, and in the spirit of transparency I thought I'd go ahead and include some quick summary tables here.

Summary of annual cash flows and fund balances

Year	Incoming		Outgoing		Net assets at year end
	gifts	investment gain (loss)	donations	expenses
1996	$ 5,015	$ 70	($ 25)	($ 253)	$ 4,808
1997	$ 10,000	$ 1,269			$ 16,076
1998	$ 30,000	$ 9,475	($ 20)	($ 83)	$ 55,448
1999	$ 30,000	$ 73,576	($ 1,481)	($ 3)	$ 157,541
2000	$ 30,400	($ 19,841)	($ 560)		$ 167,539
2001	$ 25,000	($ 33,109)	($ 12,310)	($ 55)	$ 147,066
2002	$ 20,000	($ 23,868)	($ 5,349)	($ 543)	$ 137,306
2003	$ 5,000	$ 29,050	($ 2,885)		$ 168,471
2004	$ 1,466	$ 21,541	($ 2,530)	($ 463)	$ 188,485
2005		$ 19,253	($ 1,000)	($ 10)	$ 206,728
total	$ 156,881	$ 77,416	($ 26,160)	($ 1,409)	$ 206,728

Summary of donations

Year	Amount	Donated to
1996	$ 20	Planned Parenthood (Menlo Park, California)
	$ 5	American Heart Association
1997	-
1998	$ 20	Magic (Palo Alto, California)
1999	$ 500	Northwest Environment Watch
	$ 500	Dancing Rabbit
	$ 400	medical supplies sent to Cuba
	$ 40	Hanarchy Productions
	$ 41	homeless people
2000	$ 60	Californians for Justice
	$ 500	donation of car
2001	$ 500	Global Fund for Women, Inc.
	$ 500	Child Family Health International
	$ 250	Verite Inc.
	$ 250	Share Foundation
	$ 250	Public Radio International
	$ 250	National Public Radio
	$ 60	Californians for Justice
	$ 40	Tides Foundation, for the Challenging White Supremacy project
	$ 10,000	St. Louis Community Foundation, for the Optimum Impact project
	$ 10	homeless people
	$ 100	Dancing Rabbit
	$ 100	Alaska AIDS vaccine ride
2002	$ 5,000	Beneficent Inc. (Benetech)
	$ 131	meals for students at BUILD
	$ 42	homeless people
	$ 76	Voluntary Gas Tax
	$ 100	Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
2003	$ 2,650	Open Source Applications Foundation
	$ 235	Voluntary Gas Tax
2004	$ 2,000	John Kerry for President
	$ 500	Adelante Foundation
	$ 30	Voluntary Gas Tax
2005	$ 1,000	Creative Commons
total	$ 26,160

Summary of expenses

Year	Amount	Expense
1996	$ 190	photocopies — Gumption Memo and Social Contract proposal
	$ 14	postage
	$ 48	books
1997	-
1998	$ 65	photocopies — Gumption Memo
	$ 18	books — Tax Shift
1999	$ 3	photocopies
2000	-
2001	$ 55	photocopies — Gumption Memo
2002	$ 250	Global Philanthropy Forum
	$ 175	books and journal articles
	$ 38	domain name registration — gastax.org
	$ 80	administration for Voluntary Gas Tax project
2003	-
2004	$ 63	domain name registrations — openagenda.org, openchart, opengraph, openrecord, openalmanac
	$ 400	administration for Voluntary Gas Tax project
2005	$ 10	domain name registrations
total	$ 1,409