On his income taxes released today, we see that Romney gave $4 Million tithe donations to Mormon Church. Do Mormons help poor Americans with these donations?

Good Question

Actually, nobody knows for sure because the LDS Church keeps its financial status ... including the sources, disbursements and amounts of funds ... top secret. Furthermore, they do a much better job of protecting confidentiality than either the Pentagon or CIA.

Most educated guesses, and they are only that, report that the Mormon Church gives only a small portion of their wealth toward support of needy individuals ... something on the order of one to two percent ... and that is restricted almost exclusively to church members. A much more generous amount is spent on recruiting new members.

Actually, nobody knows for sure because the LDS Church keeps its financial status ... including the sources, disbursements and amounts of funds ... top secret. Furthermore, they do a much better job of protecting confidentiality than either the Pentagon or CIA.
Most educated guesses, and they are only that, report that the Mormon Church gives only a small portion of their wealth toward support of needy individuals ... something on the order of one to two percent ... and that is restricted almost exclusively to church members. A much more generous amount is spent on recruiting new members.

The mormon church is a corporation and the top leaders are businessmen..not theologians.

Also, rather than take the risk of the finances of the church becoming known, in their PR campaigns they haven't taken the obvious step of publicizing actual dollar amounts that could be seen as actual charitable giving by the corporation.

Most of the publicized disaster aid and giving comes from members, over and above their tithing which says much for the members and little for the Corporation.

Council on the Disposition of the Tithes

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The Council on the Disposition of the Tithes (also known as the Council on the Disposition of Tithing) is a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, composed of the First Presidency, the Presiding Bishopric, and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The Council determines how the tithing funds of the church will be spent. The Council oversees revenue, investments and expenditures valued at billions of dollars per year.

While the Church employs an independent auditing department which provides an annual report to the Church^[1], it has not published full financial reports since 1959.

The Council was established by church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. on 8 July 1838.^[2] As of April 2009, the members of the Council are:

Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church University of Utah. BA Business management
Henry B. Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency Doctorate in Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency started studying engineering at 18 but later continued in Business Administration in Cologne, Germany, graduated from the International Institute for Management Development,Lausanne, Switzerland.
H. David Burton, Presiding Bishop University of Utah, BA economics, MA Business Administration from the University of Michigan
Richard C. Edgley, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric BS, political science from Brigham Young University, MA business administration from Indiana University
Keith B. McMullin, Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric ??
Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Doctorate in educational administration from BYU, 1962
L. Tom Perry, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Graduated from Utah State University in 1949 with a B.S. in business.
Russell M. Nelson, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Medical Doctor with specialty as Cardiac Surgeon.
Dallin H. Oaks, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Brigham Young University in accountingin 1954, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1957.
M. Russell Ballard, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Prior to his call as a full-time Church leader, Elder Ballard had interests in the automotive, real estate, and investment businesses.
Richard G. Scott, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles George Washington University, BS in Mechanical Engineering.
Robert D. Hales, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles received degrees from the University of Utah and Harvard Business School.
Jeffrey R. Holland, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles MA in Religious Education from BYU. Yale University, Ph.D in American Studies
David A. Bednar, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles BA in communication, MA BYU in organizational communication, Doctorate in organizational behavior from Purdue University
Quentin L. Cook, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Utah State University , BA in political science, Stanford Law School
D. Todd Christofferson, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles BA from Brigham Young University, J.D. Duke University School of Law
Neil L. Andersen, Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles MBA degree, Harvard Business School.

Go online, look up Mormon Disaster Relief, Mormon disaster warehouses, Mormon help for Haiti, Indonesia, Japan, joplin, etc; The Church makes and delivers 20,000 tons of Atmit, an Ethiopian cereal to prevent starvation for the very old and very young. This is done every year for free. I am an 85 year old Mormon convert of 57 years. I have seen nothing but good come from this great organization. We have over 5000 church and Temple buildings around the world. ALL PAID FOR! Isn’t that terrible??