As much as I despise the mindset that results in this and the grifting trailer trash that are the Clintons, part of me is not bothered too much with them screwing over the goobermint with this write off to a self-serving charity... In fact, I kind of like the idea.
Give it a shot. They’ll put you or me in prison for crap like this.
Start a charity, have your employer donate all of your salary ($200k) to it, and then have the charity pay for your expenses for housing, cars, meals, vacations, etc. Then have the charity pay you $10k in salary, which will allow you a little walking around money for items that are too difficult to launder through the charity, but the income allows you to file and collect the earned income credit of ~$1800. Being poor, you can also collect food stamps and any other welfare that’s hanging low from the tree.
You just have to magnify this 20 times or more in order to have enough margin to pay the team of lawyers required to keep you out of prison.