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Mailing expenses? Yep, there was a line item for mailing expense but a full reading of the return indicates that they were involved in a massive fund-raising through the mail effort. They paid over $420K to rent mailing lists (that's a lot of names requiring lots postage) and an additional $112K in caging services (for those who don't know - caging is third-party collection and tracking of donations received from mass mailings). I see no evidence that the mailing expenses were related to anything else...please point it out to me.
As for your assertion that 80% of their money (donors money in reality) goes into program services exactly how did they end the year with a net $5.2 million higher than they recorded at the beginning of the year ($10.9 million - $5.7 million)?
I said in my earlier post what my activity involves.
2008 990 .PDF page 34:
Form 990, Page 2, Part III, Line 4b (continued)
"Sent thousands of gifts of home care packages to troops deployed overseas."
"...and sent 5,200 Christmas gift bags to wounded troops at warrior transition units across the country."