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[quote user="IRONROOSTER"]How much ad revenue does the magazine generate?[/quote] That is on the IRS Form-990.  Second to last page.  Its income, it has to be in there.  Im not posting it here as it isnt anyone else's business besides members. [quote user="IRONROOSTER"]The point being the information was shared with the members.[/quote] Request the information from the people who can actually give it to you.  The CFO's email is available to all members. [quote user="IRONROOSTER"] BMMECNYC Dues increases are explained accurately in the budget, Okay, why were the 1972 dues $5 ($30.29 adjusted for inflation) and why are they $75 now.  (Which BTW is considerably higher than other similar organizations, such as TCA, TTOS, NASG)[/quote] TCA doesnt have a print magazine from what I could tell, so their $50 membership is $3 more expensive than the NMRA non-magazine membership. The other two are $30 and $35.   One only prints 6 magazines a year, which are physically half the length (NASG, which is available to anyone online after 1 year.)  The content appears comparable to the NMRA magazine.  I would pay that much for that magazine a year, if I was interested in modeling Maine Narrowguage in Sn2.  Maybe someday The other prints 4 magazines a year (no idea about content). As far as the difference between CPI adjusted dollars and what dues are currently, the magazine is now a separate fee from membership, because dues alone do not cover it, and also not everyone wants the magazine.  Compared to MR, the magazine is a comparable value for its reduced length and content.  I believe that $28 would be a fair price to request for the NMRA magazine if it were published as a separate entity from the organization (it operates at a loss or break even). The difference between cost of magazine and cost of dues without magazine is $28.  Which brings the delta to $17ish dollars between 1972 and now.  The EHB states the rules which allow dues increases.  You would have to go back over the years and figure out what the dues were each year and how each increase was justified at the time.   Did you take issue with anything in the budget up until they stopped publishing it?  What year did they stop publishing the budget?     As far as contracts, well you can figure out how much total was spent on the magazine.  I think thats about it though. Life fund, you would have to ask directly.
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