Posted on 04/12/2025 9:42:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Marlo Thomas: Star of ‘Clever Little Lies’ Tells It Like It Is
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2014/07/20
Jul 18, 2014 — She also expressed dismay over how difficult it is for women to get abortions in states like Idaho and Utah. “It’s poor women who will suffer,” ...
I thank you for donating.
My name is George. I have a ‘67 GTO. Sorta...
Not all.
For almost a decade, I was the Executive Director of a professional trade association.
My “profit” was 3% after expenses, which was set aside in reserves in case a program or event did not perform well. My OPEX was less than 10% of the total budget (salaries, rent, utilities, insurance).
Roughly 87% was put back into member events, publications, speakers, off-setting free education, networking events, legislative advocacy, etc.
I grew the organization’s member base by 150% and won 14 national awards by staying focused on the core reason the organization existed: to provide quality education and resources to the professionals in my field.
Some of us care about the mission and are horrified by cash grabs.
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Check united way....
The mafia is taking notes from the pros.
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Those “pros” are the Marxist-Democrat politicians and their sycophants scattered throughout the Government’s Deep State. There’s a huge group of suspects for the Trump administration to investigate, and in compliance with the RICO statutes and based on the presumed mountains of evidence, have indictments issued for everyone involved starting with the Obama regime and ending with the disgraced Biden regime.
Outrageous! Investigate before you donate. Besides church, we make small donations to 3 other charities, Tunnel to Towers, Hillsdale College and Fellowship of Christians and Jews. All 3 have excellent records of getting donations to where they ought to go. We should also give to St. Jude Research Hospital, but we haven’t yet.
This has to be illegal. If it isn’t it should be. You should be forced to have no more than 10% overhead as a “charity”. Period.
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Can’t be illegal because these scams are all part of the fraudulent activities of the Federal Government controlled by the Marxist-Democrat Party and its sycophant Deep State apparatchiks!
LOOK AT SPCA...SIMILAR
There are groups that use the money better than giving it to groups more interested in their employees rather than their needy. Like at Shriners Children’s™. Approximately 85 percent of all funds spent by Shriners Children’s each year is dedicated to patient care, research and education. We work hard to make sure gifts are used in the most efficient and effective manner. There are 22 hospitals in three countries and we spent over $300 billion to them last year. And that doesn’t account for our many other charitable organizations the Shriner network covers at local locations like vission impaired and cleft lip surgeries. Roughly it comes to over $2.6 billion a day in the US from The Shrine and groups that lead to the shrine like Masons and many other groups of men and women alike.
Another is St. Jude where 82 cents of every dollar goes to the St.Jude Hospital for treatment and research at their one hospital..
Theare real givers are out there. Just gotta look.
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This has to be illegal. If it isn’t it should be. You should be forced to have no more than 10% overhead as a “charity”. Period.
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The Combined Federal Campaign used to issue a pamphlet with every recipient listed therein which identified the percentage of gross income was spent on administrative fees. I remember declining to donate to a well known veterans support organization because of excessive administration costs.
At first glance, per the “green” marked aspects of the available chart, the Kids Wish Network hits multiple high marks on any number of noted charitable metrics, which “may not” overall carry nearly as much weight as do the “graded” financial metrics, in (apparently) the grand scheme of how Charity Navigator scores a peculiar organization.
In this instance, the score or bottom line is equivalent to an F or fail grade, and is more than “sloppiness” or “laziness” in accounting procedures. Charities in general, that deserve the donors praise and support, score in the high 80% or low 90% (percentile).
Per an available chart found within, and in getting down to brass tacks where it counts, the organization spent 64.1% on Fundraising, 5% on Administrative (admirable) and 30.5% on Program (very inefficient) in FY 2023. This is where people have a beef with the fundraising results and rightfully so.
In one of Wounded Warrior’s early iterations, the staff spent lavishly on first class accommodations, flights and meals, all under the guise of the “fundraising” arm of the budget. Eventually, the less than frugal staff living high off the hog at the expense of the donors, were removed and replaced by dedicated personnel raising the organizations standards to the stellar reputation it has today. <> freepersup <>
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Website Disclosures
Tax Form Posted on Nonprofit’s Website as stated on Form 990 - Missing
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For almost all charities, we check the charity’s IRS Form 990 to see if it discloses that the Form 990 is available on the charity’s website. As with the audited financial statement, donors need easy access to this financial report to help determine if the organization is managing its financial resources well.
Source: IRS Form 990
Financial Metrics
Liabilities to Assets: Ratio - 15.72%
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The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent IRS Form 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization’s solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
Source: IRS Form 990
Program Expense: Ratio - 32.43%
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The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three IRS Forms 990). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
Source: IRS Form 990
Fundraising Efficiency: Ratio - $0.61
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The amount spent to raise $1 in charitable contributions. To calculate a charity’s fundraising efficiency, we divide its average fundraising expenses by the average total contributions it receives. We calculate the charity’s average expenses and average contributions over its three most recent fiscal years.
Source: IRS Form 990
Working Capital: Ratio - 0.28 years
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Determines how long a charity could sustain its level of spending using its net available assets, or working capital, as reported on its most recently filed IRS Form 990. Dividing these net available assets in the most recent year by a charity’s average total expenses, yields the working capital ratio. We calculate the charity’s average total expenses over its three most recent fiscal years.
Source: IRS Form 990
The Human Fund
That’s the way most “non-profit” charities work. They use the majority of the donations for Administration, and what’s left goes to those who actually need the help. Back after 9/11, Bill O’Reilly was covering this. He went after United Way and other big charities, showing how much was used for Administration of the charity, and what little actually ended up in the hands of the 9/11 families.
I think I figured this out when I was in my early 20s. The March of dimes was created to eradicate polio but when that happened they turned to anything they could think of to stay afloat. They had to support the bureaucracy that they had created.
Nearly all charities are scams. Donate local to a church or somewhere where you can hold them to account. Humane societies, meals on wheels, clubs. The big ones advertising on TV hardly have any pass through to the actual people they are say they want to help.
I recommend charitable giving. Do the work to make sure it goes where it ought. Some administrative expenses are understandable.
that said, Hubs had leukemia with bone marrow transplant and all that, kids at home, he could not work, we were off the deep end, disability giving us all kinds of crap, it was awful just awful for years
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society here is one of the most popular and wealthy in town. I’d see their billboards all over, on buses - they’d award a man and a woman each year for being their best activists/fund raisers -
All we ever got from them after years of hospitalizations, recovery, etc, was like $117 once for a prescription help program. Filled out the forms, submitted the receipts. Within a month or two that program was out of funds for the year.
$117
They don’t owe us anything but believe me those funding them are not helping the people they think they are helping. We were as deserving as can be.
St Jude, which everyone loves, does apparently give the medical care and all free of charge to kids which is wonderful.
However I have read they have multiple millions at their disposal. And just keep fundraising.
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