The overhead is minimal. One of the ‘charities’ I’ve looked at was JSTOR, which hosts many journals. Their hosting and ongoing costs are trivial—employee compensation eats the entire budget; and they make next to nothing on gatewayed articles:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-July/109234.html
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2011/jstor-where-does-your-money-go/
The overhead is minimal. One of the ‘charities’ I’ve looked at was JSTOR, which hosts many journals. Their hosting and ongoing costs are trivial—employee compensation eats the entire budget; and they make next to nothing on gatewayed articles:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2011-July/109234.html
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2011/jstor-where-does-your-money-go/