Latest Numbers from the Interpreter Foundation

[Tom]

In July, I wrote:

It appears that the Interpreter Foundation spent $507,175.65 for the Critical Text Project from the fourth quarter of 2014 through the end of 2023. It remains to be seen whether the Foundation funded the project in 2024 and is continuing to fund it in 2025.

I am pleased to report that the Foundation’s 990 for 2024 indicates that the organization spent $99,050 on the Critical Text Project during 2024. It now appears that the Foundation has spent at least $606,225.65 to fund Skousen’s (and Carmack’s) project. I am not making this up.

Other tidbits from the 2024 990:

*Money spent for the Six Days in August and Not By Bread Alone projects in 2024: $1,230,668 (versus an astonishing $1,731,299 in 2023)

*Total revenue from Six Days in August: $116,408

On a related note, the Relief Society Sister in Parowan and I recently made a special trip to the Flying Goat Café in Panguitch where we had breakfast and gazed eastward at the steady flow of people coming in and out of the Pink Polka Dott, which is located on the other side of South Main Street. I enjoyed the scrumptious Holy Goat Pastrami Burger (I freely confess that it was one of the best burgers I’ve eaten), and she feasted on the “Goat” Morning Hash. (The name of the latter dish is a clever pun.) She asked me between bites (1) why the Interpreter Foundation’s 2024 990 doesn’t report the expenses for the two film projects separately; (2) why the Foundation’s quarterly expense reports don’t feature separate lines for the film projects; (3) why the Foundation has failed to release expense reports for the second and third quarters of 2025; and (4) why the Foundation has not published a monograph on the Ghost Committee. I couldn’t answer her questions.

On a sad note, the Flying Goat Café is closing November 30.

Posted from Akish, Utah

[drumdude]

In July, I wrote:

It appears that the Interpreter Foundation spent $507,175.65 for the Critical Text Project from the fourth quarter of 2014 through the end of 2023. It remains to be seen whether the Foundation funded the project in 2024 and is continuing to fund it in 2025.

I am pleased to report that the Foundation’s 990 for 2024 indicates that the organization spent $99,050 on the Critical Text Project during 2024. It now appears that the Foundation has spent at least $606,225.65 to fund Skousen’s (and Carmack’s) project. I am not making this up.

Other tidbits from the 2024 990:

*Money spent for the Six Days in August and Not By Bread Alone projects in 2024: $1,230,668 (versus an astonishing $1,731,299 in 2023)

*Total revenue from Six Days in August: $116,408

On a related note, the Relief Society Sister in Parowan and I recently made a special trip to the Flying Goat Café in Panguitch where we had breakfast and gazed eastward at the steady flow of people coming in and out of the Pink Polka Dott, which is located on the other side of South Main Street. I enjoyed the scrumptious Holy Goat Pastrami Burger (I freely confess that it was one of the best burgers I’ve eaten), and she feasted on the “Goat” Morning Hash. (The name of the latter dish is a clever pun.) She asked me between bites (1) why the Interpreter Foundation’s 2024 990 doesn’t report the expenses for the two film projects separately; (2) why the Foundation’s quarterly expense reports don’t feature separate lines for the film projects; (3) why the Foundation has failed to release expense reports for the second and third quarters of 2025; and (4) why the Foundation has not published a monograph on the Ghost Committee. I couldn’t answer her questions.

On a sad note, the Flying Goat Café is closing November 30.

Posted from Akish, Utah

Wow. The revenue from Six Days is absolutely abysmal.

[malkie]

In July, I wrote:
I am pleased to report that the Foundation’s 990 for 2024 indicates that the organization spent $99,050 on the Critical Text Project during 2024. It now appears that the Foundation has spent at least $606,225.65 to fund Skousen’s (and Carmack’s) project. I am not making this up.

Other tidbits from the 2024 990:

*Money spent for the Six Days in August and Not By Bread Alone projects in 2024: $1,230,668 (versus an astonishing $1,731,299 in 2023)

*Total revenue from Six Days in August: $116,408

On a related note, the Relief Society Sister in Parowan and I recently made a special trip to the Flying Goat Café in Panguitch where we had breakfast and gazed eastward at the steady flow of people coming in and out of the Pink Polka Dott, which is located on the other side of South Main Street. I enjoyed the scrumptious Holy Goat Pastrami Burger (I freely confess that it was one of the best burgers I’ve eaten), and she feasted on the “Goat” Morning Hash. (The name of the latter dish is a clever pun.) She asked me between bites (1) why the Interpreter Foundation’s 2024 990 doesn’t report the expenses for the two film projects separately; (2) why the Foundation’s quarterly expense reports don’t feature separate lines for the film projects; (3) why the Foundation has failed to release expense reports for the second and third quarters of 2025; and (4) why the Foundation has not published a monograph on the Ghost Committee. I couldn’t answer her questions.

On a sad note, the Flying Goat Café is closing November 30.

Posted from Akish, Utah

Wow. The revenue from Six Days is absolutely abysmal.

They should have made a movie about Helmuth Hübener instead: viewtopic.php?p=2912056#p2912056

[I Have Questions]

In July, I wrote:

It appears that the Interpreter Foundation spent $507,175.65 for the Critical Text Project from the fourth quarter of 2014 through the end of 2023. It remains to be seen whether the Foundation funded the project in 2024 and is continuing to fund it in 2025.

I am pleased to report that the Foundation’s 990 for 2024 indicates that the organization spent $99,050 on the Critical Text Project during 2024. It now appears that the Foundation has spent at least $606,225.65 to fund Skousen’s (and Carmack’s) project. I am not making this up.

Other tidbits from the 2024 990:

*Money spent for the Six Days in August and Not By Bread Alone projects in 2024: $1,230,668 (versus an astonishing $1,731,299 in 2023)

*Total revenue from Six Days in August: $116,408

On a related note, the Relief Society Sister in Parowan and I recently made a special trip to the Flying Goat Café in Panguitch where we had breakfast and gazed eastward at the steady flow of people coming in and out of the Pink Polka Dott, which is located on the other side of South Main Street. I enjoyed the scrumptious Holy Goat Pastrami Burger (I freely confess that it was one of the best burgers I’ve eaten), and she feasted on the “Goat” Morning Hash. (The name of the latter dish is a clever pun.) She asked me between bites (1) why the Interpreter Foundation’s 2024 990 doesn’t report the expenses for the two film projects separately; (2) why the Foundation’s quarterly expense reports don’t feature separate lines for the film projects; (3) why the Foundation has failed to release expense reports for the second and third quarters of 2025; and (4) why the Foundation has not published a monograph on the Ghost Committee. I couldn’t answer her questions.

On a sad note, the Flying Goat Café is closing November 30.

Posted from Akish, Utah

Did I read that right? The Interpreter has spent, in just 2 years, $3 million on a disastrous movie project and on sending Jeff Bradshaw on regular junkets to Africa to write down some stories?

[Doctor Scratch]

Thanks very much for the update, Tom. Those expenditures are certainly remarkable. Interpreter really is a strange organization, isn't it? They have dumped millions of dollars into the "holy trinity" projects of "Not By Bread Alone" (no kidding, eh?), Six Days in August, and the Skousen project. As for the "journal"/blog--it's striking that so little of the content is original. It's almost like Interpreter is the Mopologetic equivalent of "Nick at Nite," where they just show re-runs constantly. Sure: there is the (mostly) weekly "peer-reviewed" piece, but so much of what they are slapping up each day is a retread of something that has already been published elsewhere. And then there is the "Interpreting Interpreter" thing, which is really just a summary of the article de jour, and, which, again, just seems like "padding" meant to create the impression that Interpreter is actually producing a lot of content.

[drumdude]

The blog will be vindicated when all of DCP's hard work taking notes finally coalesces into a New York Times best-seller. Dan's magnum opus will refute the 20-year old "New Atheists," provide a rational and compelling case for belief in Mormonism, and upend the scientific consensus that consciousness is a product of the brain.

I would also invest in oil and water drilling, since when his book releases it will usher in a new era of accuracy probing the depths of the earth with crossed twigs. And the church will hardly be able to deal with the massive influx of new blood into the religion.

Just you wait and see, any day now.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

The blog will be vindicated when all of DCP's hard work taking notes finally coalesces into a New York Times best-seller. Dan's magnum opus will refute the 20-year old "New Atheists," provide a rational and compelling case for belief in Mormonism, and upend the scientific consensus that consciousness is a product of the brain.

I would also invest in oil and water drilling, since when his book releases it will usher in a new era of accuracy probing the depths of the earth with crossed twigs. And the church will hardly be able to deal with the massive influx of new blood into the religion.

Just you wait and see, any day now.

And don't forget, the non-delivery of his two promised books, due back in 2014, is particularly rich, considering DCP is fond of saying, "I hate disingenuousness."

[drumdude]

The blog will be vindicated when all of DCP's hard work taking notes finally coalesces into a New York Times best-seller. Dan's magnum opus will refute the 20-year old "New Atheists," provide a rational and compelling case for belief in Mormonism, and upend the scientific consensus that consciousness is a product of the brain.

I would also invest in oil and water drilling, since when his book releases it will usher in a new era of accuracy probing the depths of the earth with crossed twigs. And the church will hardly be able to deal with the massive influx of new blood into the religion.

Just you wait and see, any day now.

And don't forget, the non-delivery of his two promised books, due back in 2014, is particularly rich, considering DCP is fond of saying, "I hate disingenuousness."

He hates looking in the mirror.

[Tom]

In July, I wrote:
I am pleased to report that the Foundation’s 990 for 2024 indicates that the organization spent $99,050 on the Critical Text Project during 2024. It now appears that the Foundation has spent at least $606,225.65 to fund Skousen’s (and Carmack’s) project. I am not making this up.

Other tidbits from the 2024 990:

*Money spent for the Six Days in August and Not By Bread Alone projects in 2024: $1,230,668 (versus an astonishing $1,731,299 in 2023)

*Total revenue from Six Days in August: $116,408

On a related note, the Relief Society Sister in Parowan and I recently made a special trip to the Flying Goat Café in Panguitch where we had breakfast and gazed eastward at the steady flow of people coming in and out of the Pink Polka Dott, which is located on the other side of South Main Street. I enjoyed the scrumptious Holy Goat Pastrami Burger (I freely confess that it was one of the best burgers I’ve eaten), and she feasted on the “Goat” Morning Hash. (The name of the latter dish is a clever pun.) She asked me between bites (1) why the Interpreter Foundation’s 2024 990 doesn’t report the expenses for the two film projects separately; (2) why the Foundation’s quarterly expense reports don’t feature separate lines for the film projects; (3) why the Foundation has failed to release expense reports for the second and third quarters of 2025; and (4) why the Foundation has not published a monograph on the Ghost Committee. I couldn’t answer her questions.

On a sad note, the Flying Goat Café is closing November 30.

Posted from Akish, Utah

Did I read that right? The Interpreter has spent, in just 2 years, $3 million on a disastrous movie project and on sending Jeff Bradshaw on regular junkets to Africa to write down some stories?

Yes. Please see here.

[drumdude]

I think if Interpreter made a new 10 million dollar movie, it would be sure to spark a wave of interest in Mormon Cinema and drive convert numbers up.

If at first you don't succeed, try try again! This is the Lord's true church, headed by Jesus Christ himself. Surely He will work a miracle and bring success to the next feature film in the Interpreter Cinematic Universe (ICU).