Public reports

The purpose of this portal is to provide easy, open access to public documents concerning the financial status and governance of the Creative Commons organization.

Financial Documents

Tax returns and audit information

2011

• IRS Form 990 - http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/043/043585301/043585301_201112_990.pdf

2010

• IRS Form 990 - http://ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit.pdf

2009

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2009.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2009.pdf

2008

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2008.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2008.pdf

2007

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2007.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2007.pdf

2006

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2006.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2006.pdf

2005

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2005.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2005.pdf

2004

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2004.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2004.pdf

2003

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2003.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2003.pdf

2002

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2002.pdf
• Independent audit - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit2002.pdf

2001

• IRS Form 990 - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/990-2001.pdf

IRS Tax exempt status

• Form 1023 tax-exempt non-profit application and supplements - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/1023.pdf
• IRS tax-exempt determination letter - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/irsexempt.pdf

Governance documents

• Incorporation document and charter - http://ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/articles.pdf
• Organization bylaws - http://ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/bylaws.pdf
• Board of Directors meeting summaries - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Board_Reports
  • 2010 - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliate_Reporting/2010
  • 2012 - TBD
• Affiliate Network policies - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliates
• Copyright and trademark policies - http://creativecommons.org/policies
• Privacy policy - http://creativecommons.org/privacy
• Website terms of use - http://creativecommons.org/terms
• Technical Advisory Board charter - http://ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/tab.pdf
• Audit Committee Charter - http://www.ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/auditcharter.pdf
• Science Advisory Board charge - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/d/d7/SCIENCEADVISORYBOARDCHARGE.pdf
• Legal Advisory Board charter/charge?
• Board of Directors nomination process?
• Executive board charter/charge?
• License versioning process - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_Versions
• http://teamspace.creativecommons.org/OutsideMemberships

Annual reports

Organization-wide report

• 2012 - forthcoming

Affiliate Network reports

• 2010 - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliate_Reporting/2010

Funding sources

• Funding sources and large donors - check with Sara C and Cathy - full 990s contain donors over certain level, but we should ask them or have a process setup to get their permission to post this if we are to include the full 990 (DC doesn't retain that section on the ibiblio website)
  • some configuration of https://creativecommons.net/supporters/
  • some configuration of “how your donation is used” graphic from https://creativecommons.net/donate/
  • dashboard - https://creativecommons.net/figures/

other stuff

• Conflict of interest, Codes of Conduct, other policy documents (DC says probably not)
  • seems relevant though - http://ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/conduct.pdf
• Non-audited balance and profit/loss (DC says we don't have this because we're audited every year)
• Annual budgets (DC says probably no as might contain salaries and Board would have to approve the posting of these); this would be taken care of by the annual report anyway, minus staff salaries
• Board minutes - DC says probably not
  • see what the WMF does - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2012-10-26
  • http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
• http://teamspace.creativecommons.org/OutsideMemberships
• http://teamspace.creativecommons.org/Board_Reporting
• http://teamspace.creativecommons.org/Finance
• publish grant proposals?
• announcement of big grants. some but, communication could be better probably
  • http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27097
  • http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/8175
  • http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/7945
  • http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/8322
  • http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/26078
  • http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/7183
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies
• should we include board of directors agendas for their meetings like Wikimedia does?
• interesting to see what policies WMF has on their public sites - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies
• http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions