I have been able to recover an old copy of the 2002 E.R.P.S. budget.
Each project had proposed a budget and as they spent funds the amounts were taken off the budget to show what remained. I did some tidying up of spellings and formats and I swapped the Gizmocopter and POGO budgets (I no longer have the actual proposals but POGO showed a budget of $2,000 and didn’t spend a dime while Gizmo showed a budget of $800 and spent over $2,000).
I’d like to get a similar system setup for 2010, and get an idea of what projects we want to back and how much we need to raise.
I also have the Donations list from 2002. We had just shy of $30k donated that year in cash and items. The big item was John’s Test Stand work (cables and A/D box) and Adrian’s contribution for POGO. Outside of those two, we had about $4000 in donations, which is much more normal for the time period.
| Project | Amount | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Donation | $935.16 | $935.16 |
| Gizmocopter | $472.56 | $472.56 |
| KISS | $1,561.71 | $1,561.71 |
| Membership | $725.00 | $725.00 |
| Overhead | $105.00 | $725.00 |
| POGO | $9,000.00 | |
| Spike | $67.75 | $67.75 |
| Test Stand | $17,069.00 | |
| Voluntary Exec Dues | $60.00 | $60.00 |
| Totals | $29,996.18 | $3,927.18 |
Between Space Access and the World Science Fiction Convention is San Jose that year, we sold 25 annual memberships, and 1 person paid membership for 4 years! Definitely our best year for paid membership.