Posted on 03/18/2010 1:51:50 PM PDT by Wpin
From what I understand Freedom Alliance is developing a response to the lies and distortions of the Schlussel blog distortions and lies. In the meantime, please go to the Freedom Alliance website. http://www.freedomalliance.org/
Also, please note that they are a four star rated charity by Charity Navigator, an independent charity rating service. You can visit their website here: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=6590
You will note that Charity Navigator has the following breakdown of expenses as a percentage;
Organizational Efficiency Program Expenses 81.5% Administrative Expenses 4.8% Fundraising Expenses 13.5% Fundraising Efficiency $0.09 Efficiency Rating (35.65) Organizational Capacity Primary Revenue Growth 7.4% Program Expenses Growth 28.3% Working Capital Ratio (years) 2.57 Capacity Rating (30.00)
They also have breakdown in dollars:
Revenue Primary Revenue $10,778,892 Other Revenue $1,680,425 Total Revenue $12,459,317
Expenses Program Expenses $6,084,474 Administrative Expenses $365,375 Fundraising Expenses $1,011,501 Total Functional Expenses $7,461,350
Payments to Affiliates $0 Excess (or Deficit) for the year $4,997,967
Net Assets $19,354,587
Anyone who can read this can easily see that the vast majority of expenses goes towards the programs.
Let's cool it on the damning of patriots until we can see their response.
I for one, have much faith in people like Oliver North, Charlie Daniels, Lee Greenwood, Sean Hannity, and the hundreds of others who work so hard to do good things for our service people.
BTW, they have more than the one or two programs the slanderous Schlussel would have you believe.
The left has, they have been harping on this since 2006.
I didn’t realize we were as a group supposed to cheerlead talk show hosts.
Levin is going to be too busy....
Your daughter is ill?! PRAYERS!
This isn’t about cheerleading you dope!!! It’s about not letting a few numbnuts on FR trash a great person, because someone blogs twisted disinformation. I bet you are a troll...
Nope, no troll. But that’s pretty typical, find someone you disagree with and BAM, they must be a troll.
Schussel has also gone after Palin and Steven Crowder. As I said, she smears everyone. Mostly consevatives.
I don’t “hate” anyone (well, ok-that’s not true for someone with the initials BO), but what I “hate” is someone using their celebrity to con the king treatment while tooting their own horn about the charity work they are doing.
OH, I truly dislike Schussel. Especially considering how much I adore Steven Crowder (I run the Crowder video ping list- let me know if you want on it), she ticked me off BIG TIME with what she said about him. And I was quite skeptical of this until I went to the article and read the tax returns.
That’s the clincher for me, the amount paid to ‘consultants’ and such? If it costs $5,000,000 to put on a concert just to raise $1,000,000 in charity, you’re doing something wrong or it just ain’t worth it! That’s a lot of money that people could be spending on their own family’s charities locally. That’s my biggest gripe. Hannity annoys the crap out of me, Schussell is a dimwit who is jealous of Sarah Palin. But it doesn’t change a thing if this charity is just a front to make some folks wealthier or get some nice kingly treatment for lending their name to it.
How much of the $5 million difference between revenue and expenses was distributed to the veterans that the organization was founded to serve? Can you tell us that?
I like Crowder but I love Zo. And I loved it when they teamed up. That vid was funny.
My point is that Freedom alliance does not EQUAL sean hannity. he puts on the concerts, funds from which go to help the Freedom Alliance fund their projects.
Autumnraine...have you been emailing me????
Emailing you? How? I haven’t Freepmailed anyone and I don’t know your personal email address. The only time I have spoken with you is on the threads we have been talking on.
Someone took a post I sent to you and has been emailing me. This is why I called you troll (sorry). This person was saying all sorts of crazy stuff...I told the person to go to hell. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t you. LOL:)
“I don’t “hate” anyone (well, ok-that’s not true for someone with the initials BO), but what I “hate” is someone using their celebrity to con the king treatment while tooting their own horn about the charity work they are doing.”
Sean Hannity raises a lot of money for Freedom Alliance and has been a good friend to the service men and women of our nation. You are assuming the travel costs are his because a person who is a known liar told you it was...think about that.
First off autumnraine, you are assuming that the $1,000,000 profit from the concerts is the only benefit they receive. It is not, it brings awareness and other donations throughout the year. You are also trying to interpret a tax statement through the eyes of the person who is lying about the whole thing.
For instance, she does not relate that Freedom Alliance has several programs...one which includes flying family members overseas to visit wounded service men and women. This probably is quite a bit of the private plane rentals and travel in general. I know my niece is a part of the Freedom Concerts and travels by plane and car from site to site...in completely normal fashion that one would expect.
This is a wonderful organization that has the highest rating on money disbursement from the independent, Charity Navigator Rating organization which rates the Freedom Alliance four out of four stars. They show about 80% of all monies spent go to program expenses, that is very good. Here is the link:
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=6590
Have a little faith in good Americans! My god, Oliver North, Charlie Daniels, Lee Greenwood, Sean Hannity, and hundreds of others who work very hard to help our military families...come on!!!
I had someone freepmail me awhile back and it was an account that no one had ever used to post. Apparently it was only used to harass in freepmail. Check their name and see if they post.
Debbie does not like Sean. I have to take that into account regarding what she posts.
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