ORIGINAL: BigJ12
No,if they said they spent $100,000.00(or whatever)on grants last year I'm sure they did. What we (general public) don't know though is how much money was generated from entry fees compared to how much was spent on grants and the like.
Don't you think that if some of your money from the entry fee went towards conservation they would advertise that fact??.........it would be a major catalyst to get people to pony up if they thought they were helping the greater good and not just buying ink and paper. I buy a duck stamp every year if I plan on hunting waterfowl or not........because I know my money is going to a good cause. I see no evidence of the $25 going to anything other then book related costs.
The point I was making is as long as they arespending money on grants thenthey can say that even the entry fee is part of that too. Like I said money flows into a company from many differend sources (depending on the company of course) so to try and single out one source and say none of that is spent on grants or any other conservation project just isn't possible.
If the books cost X then the only way you can say entry fees go towards conservation is if the entry fees are > X.
Well, it's how abuisness works, or most of them. While I don't claim to know how the P&Y club runs theirs, I know how I run mine and that's to say that all money no matter how it's earned goes into a general fund to be allocated as needed to run my company. I think because it's the norm I would like to see evidence to the contrary.
I don't know what business you run but if it is not a non profit organization that has to justify charitable contributions to the IRS then I wouldn't say your norm equals their norm.
It make no sense to have separate accounts for separate earnings, not only is it not needed because you already know where the money is comming from it makes for an accounting departments nightmare. They would have to balance and maintain separate ledgers for all the separate types of income generated. I have never heard of that not under one company name at least.
I keep all the money from my clinic in one account. At the end of the year I have to show how much came from many different sources. It's fairly simple........our girls know where to put the receipts based on where it came from and my accountant totals them up at the end of the year. Not a nightmare at all........in fact we got new software last year that makes it even easier on the girls.
I don't believe for one second that the entry fees paid only cover the cost to enter them. No, you know as well as I they are making money as any business should do.
But everyone has been saying they are a NPO........How can this be??
The P&Y clubdoes give money for grants, and otherconservation causes it only makes good business sense to do so, afterall it's bow hunters who are paying to have their deer entered. If they (P&Y club) didn't then pretty soon hunters would wise up and that would be the end of the P&Y club.
I don't think even 1/10 would care............as long as they got their name in the book.
So when it's all said and done, are people paying to have their name entered in a book? Sure......But they get the satisfaction of having their name listed with others who have achieved similar huntinggoals and at the same time helped their sport grow and stay strong, no matter how great or slight their actual monetarycontribution might be.
I don't see that the two are linked in any way...........and thinking most (not all) guys put their name in that book for some more honorable reason then to just see their name in print is naive. IMO