2020-08-31: Ledger had a great run, and now Hack Club HQ is running entirely on HCB, where we use Transparency Mode to make everything public. Check out our recent finances here.
Please help us improve our open finances by filing issues in this repository. Before HCB, we manually made our finances transparent in this repository using
ledger
. All of those transparent books are archived here.
Hack Club is building a new kind of nonprofit with total transparency. A core part of this goal is being transparent in how we spend our money.
Until January 2018, we used Ledger CLI, an open source CLI accounting tool, to maintain our books. As we began to spend an increasingly large amount of time managing our books, we decided to hire an accounting firm to take over. Unfortunately, accountants don't use open source CLI tools.
Right now (as of 2018-06), we're swamped wrapping up the school year and are working to figure out a strategy for making our new books transparent. We're planning to dump P&L reports and balance sheets monthly in this repo at some point in the near future.
For the time being, you're welcome to check out our books up until 2018 in main.ledger
. If you have Docker on your machine, you can run ./bin/bash
to be dropped into a Docker container's shell with ledger installed. You can then run all sorts of neat reports, like ledger -f main.ledger bal
.
Have at it!
An up-to-date list of all of the categories in main.ledger
is below:
Assets
Chase
Checking
Square Cash
Wells Fargo
Checking
Savings
Expenses
Operating
Accommodation
Bank
Contracting
Food
Insurance
Legal
Office
Rent
Supplies
Other
Shipping
Software
Hosting
Staff
Immigration
Relocation
Salary
Tax
Transportation
Air
Ground
Marketing
Ads
Stickers
T-Shirts
Transportation
Air
Ground
Contracting
Other
Fundraising
Accommodation
Transportation
Air
Ground
Contracting
Software
Other
Income
Bank Interest
Fundraising
Hack Camp
Other
Website Donations
Liabilities
Reimbursement
<subcategories for each person we owe money>
This data is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution license.