A-T Points POLL

What is your A-T Priority Points rank? Votes not displayed publicly.

  • 1-500

    Votes: 18 23.7%

  • 501-1,000

    Votes: 11 14.5%

  • 1,001-2,500

    Votes: 8 10.5%

  • 2,501-5,000

    Votes: 14 18.4%

  • 5,001-10,000

    Votes: 10 13.2%

  • 10,001+

    Votes: 5 6.6%

  • I've never given to the A-T Fund.

    Votes: 10 13.2%
  • Total voters
    76
ThisIsAtlanta said:
IRS has accepted check copies and bank statements for my other charitable donations, not sure why GTAA would be different.
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It depends on the amount of the claimed contribution/deduction.
IRS Publication 1771 said:
A donor cannot claim a tax deduction for any single contribution of $250 or more unless the donor obtains a contemporaneous, written acknowledgment of the contribution from the recipient organization.
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EDIT: Though obviously you're never going to get audited *because* of this, unless the size of the contribution was huge relative to your income. But if you got audited for some other reason, they'll expect those acknowledgments to justify the deductions.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
IRS has accepted check copies and bank statements for my other charitable donations, not sure why GTAA would be different.
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Why would you bother with that if you could just give the GTAA your real name and address to get the signed letter as proof, instead?
 
18in32 said:
It depends on the amount of the claimed contribution/deduction.

EDIT: Though obviously you're never going to get audited *because* of this, unless the size of the contribution was huge relative to your income. But if you got audited for some other reason, they'll expect those acknowledgments to justify the deductions.
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I think I'm fine then. I do multiple contributions yearly, which all fall below that threshold.
 
gtphd said:
Why would you bother with that if you could just give the GTAA your real name and address to get the signed letter as proof, instead?
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Bother with what? I already have to give my bank statements every time I do my taxes anyways, and I have them on file going back over a decade besides that. I've given GTAA my real name and address several times since I purchased my current house before JT was starting for us. I've certainly never given them the wrong name. Most of the time I do know my own name, the end of some tailgates excepted. If that's not enough for them to get it right, I have no interest in worsening my relationship with them by banging my head against a wall. I've had a pretty bad run with their customer service, if I haven't made that apparent before.

Either way, to rejoin the thread, my points and rank therein aren't really all that important to me. The only reason I donate to GT is because I want to see us win, and the only reason I buy tickets is because I want to see us play.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
Most of the time I do know my own name, the end of some tailgates excepted.
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ThisIsAtlanta said:
The only reason I donate to GT is because I want to see us win, and the only reason I buy tickets is because I want to see us play.
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Well stated.
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Thanks to everyone who has responded. I'm pleasantly surprised how many of us are donors to the AT Fund. Yay for us. Here's some further info for the curious —

Obviously there are lots of ways to earn points besides giving unrestricted cash. And also obviously the amount you have to give to maintain your position is constantly increasing. That said, as of a couple years ago, this is roughly how much cash you had to give in *unrestricted* funds to enter into these categories —

#500 = $83,000
#1,000 = $36,000
#2,500 = $13,000
#5,000 = $5,000
#10,000 = $1,200

(Restricted funds, though they cost you just as much, only earn you half the credit.)

At the bottom of the ladder it doesn't take much to move up the points ladder pretty rapidly, but once you get into the higher numbers, the increases from rank to rank can get pretty substantial. So going from #5,000 to #4,500 involves giving an extra 17% (about $800 one-time). But going from #500 to #100 involves giving an extra 340% (about $285,000 one-time).
 
18in32 said:
Stansbury recently noted that a lot of people giving to the recruiting challenge were message-board posters and first-time givers. It got me curious if he was right about us...
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Don't doubt this, but how did he ascertain that a lot of the people giving were message board posters?

Was that the only info outlet for the donations?
 
texstinger said:
Don't doubt this, but how did he ascertain that a lot of the people giving were message board posters?

Was that the only info outlet for the donations?
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Good question. Perhaps the question was asked 'how did you learn about this challenge?' at the time of donation? Dunno.
 
I quit making gifts to AT when the seat license was imposed. Then I quit buying season tickets. So now I only give to AT when we beat the dawgs. So my rank is infinity.
 
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