Posted on 07/22/2025 1:16:11 PM PDT by Red Badger
Los Angeles was devastated by wildfires back in January, and the area is still feeling the impacts of the disaster.
So when $100 million was raised by two FireAid concerts at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, featuring acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Billie Elish, and Jelly Roll, you'd have thought the money would make its way to fire victims.
Well, it's not that simple.
Sue Pascoe, editor-in-chief at Circling The News, has the story of how this money ended up not going to fire victims, but instead making its way to non-profits with high-salary executives.
This editor reached out to the Annenberg Foundation, which was tasked with distributing funds, in April to find out how fire victims could receive direct financial help.
The answer was the money was intended for nonprofits, no individual could receive money even though it was intended for fire victims.
The money was doled out to non-profits such as Pathways LA, After the Fire, California Native Vote Project, Instituto de Educatcion Popular del Sur de California, and the state's very own CalVolunteers.
A bit about CalVolunteers:
Round 2 of grants handed out in early June, $25,000 million was given to various nonprofits, including the State of California's CalVolunteers.
California Volunteers is the state office 'tasked with engaging Californias in service, volunteering and civic action to tackle our State's most pressing challenges.['] Jacqueline Yannacci, the head, appointed by Newsom, receives a salary of $141,420, and this group serves under the office of the governor.
There is a 25-member Board of Commissioners for CalVolunteers, appointed by the Governor. The first lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom serves as the honorary chair.
So instead of fire victims receiving money from FireAid itself, FireAid gave the money to non-profits who we are supposed to trust to funnel the money to fire victims.
It's USAID all over again.
Let's take a look at those other non-profits mentioned above:
If you're an individual, you're out of luck. Californians must rely on these non-profits to send them relief.
Sue Pascoe appeared on Fox 11 to share her story:
So maybe next time, instead of sending donations for fire victims to non-profits, we could send the money to fire victims.
Seems like a fair solution.
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Jun 1, 2025Bono has a “non-profit” organization (NPO) called ‘ONE’ that received almost ÂŁ9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only ÂŁ118,000 to good causes (1.2%).
Same as it ever was. Don’t get me started on FarmAid!!
You could not write a made-for-tv-movie with a more obvious plot.
Grifters grift.
I’ll bet most of the fire victims could not afford to be concert goers, so the affluents got to see their stars but the victims got no stars and now no money.
A lot of overhead costs.
“ instead making its way to non-profits with high-salary executives.”
I am in favor of ending all nonprofit status for all organizations. People who want to donate to true charities such as their own church will still donate even without a tax deduction. It will probably never happen because too many members of Congress have their own nonprofit family trusts, etc..
Before any money is released, 10 democRATS need their 10% each.
Perhaps the victims could apply for assistance from the Clinton Globull Initiative.
What is a nonprofit family trust?
Newsrooms hair dont style itself
I would wager this story never gets picked up by either NPR or the New York Times.
Kind of interesting how the MSM filters the news.
Nonprofit family trust is a type of foundation which a family controls. It raises money tax exempt. It donates some of this money to a charity and can pay its family members to run it. Many are really a scam as very little money ever reaches a person truly in need. Check “nonprofit family trust” on the Internet for details.
Some democrat’s pockets.
The bigger atrocity is that they’re scheming to force property owners to finally give up and sell the property for pennies on the dollar at great profit and benefit to them.
It’s beyond reprehensible.
Agreed!
“Nonprofit family trust is a type of foundation “
Nope.
It’s great. Millions of dollars to “charities” to distribute to other charities which pass it on to other charities, to help a charity to give the money to a charity that gives the few pennies left over to some director of another charity. What a scam. What will be the cream on top will be that these charities are going to be the ones grabbing the cheap land to turn them in to “affordable housing” for bums and illegal aliens.
I wonder what the pass through rates are of “The Clinton Foundation.”
Maxine Waters...we have a mop up cleaning mess on aisle 14.
...but how did it make you feel?
Color me surprised at a low life scam in Newscum’s Ca.
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