Posted on 07/16/2014 11:20:09 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
A few days ago we posted some details, and a large dose of opinion, about the latest misguided efforts of Glenn Becks Bold and Sanctimonious Tour and a strange thing happened . few, if any, thought our critical outline was controversial.
It would appear the Patriotic U.S. Sleeping Giant is awake, at least on this issue.
What follows below is a little more depth on the issue of Faith Based organizations and those receiving federal grants to facilitate illegal immigration.
We have received numerous requests to turn the eye of research into exactly what these organizations are. Specifically, one group that is continually in the media stories when they describe faith based organizations and subsequent assistance to illegal aliens, or unaccompanied alien children, Baptist Child and Family Services or BCFS.
Faith Based Organizations. Has a nice charitable ring to it, no? At least on the surface its a great sounding catch phrase. Such descriptivism gives the reader or listener the impression of charity in some form. At the very least, as Mr. Teddy Bears and Soccer Balls -Glenn Beck- has recently been espousing, they would seem quite, well, charitable.
Alas, not so fast.
Allow us to introduce to you Mr. Kevin Dinnin.
Hes the paid President and CEO of Baptist Child and Family Services Emergency Management Division (BCFS-EMD). We found him by backtracking the name of the principal officer posted on their 2012 tax filings.
Paid at an annual salary of $477,799+ I might add.
Not a bad gig for himself and rest of the BCFS-EMD leadership and staff who pulled in, and paid $33,000,000 in wages for 2012.
Yes, that is THIRTY THREE MILLION. In payroll.
You see, BCFS is two entities. You have BCFS and BCFS-EMD.
BCFS Health and Human Services Emergency Management Division (BCFS EMD) is a non-profit partner of federal, state and local government and private industry. Our organization specializes in emergency management, incident management, disaster response, public health and medical emergency response, mass care, medical sheltering and planning for vulnerable populations. (link)
Call me crazy but I thought thats what FEMA was for .. oh well, I digress.
Now, at this point Id usually link to a bunch of internal publically available information about BCFS-EMD so you could cruise around and dig in for your own analytical curiosity. However, a strange thing happened while assembling this research; the site closed down many of the page functions during my assembly .. presto: ACCESS DENIED !
Ill have to leave it up to you why they did this. But I can assure you the change in sunlight protocol occurred between the hours of noon on Wednesday 7/16/14 and 11:30pm that same day. How do I know? Because for the past two days Ive been mining data on this organization and the Access Denied only occurred after I had already been assembling the cast of characters and tracking down their tax filings.
For some reason over the past 48 hours sunlight has become antithetical to BCFS-EMD, or at least their Leadership. I digress, again ..
(maybe, just maybe, theyre updating? /sarc)
Baptist Child and Family Services, along with Baptist Child and Family Services-Emergency Management Division, are actually the recipients of the Department of Homeland Security and Dept. of Health and Human Services grant money.
How much money you might ask?
Well, lets just say a single grant this month was for $190,707,505.00
THATs a single grant.
One grant for:
One Hundred Ninety Million, Seven Hundred Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Five Dollars. $190,707,505.00
And theres more than a few MORE:
And yes as you scroll to the bottom youll note that we are only half-way through the year and this entity has received over a QUARTER BILLION dollars. OK, now youre beginning to get the picture.
Taxpayer dollars.
Im thinking BCFS can afford a few soccer balls, no?
So what in the world can a faith based charity group be spending all of that taxpayer money on ? . and how big is this charity if the federal government portion therein is funding it to the tune of THAT MUCH money ?
Well, apparently, other than Federal Grant Work, not much.
In 2012 they pulled in $67,325,953.00 and $63,321,669 of taxpayer funds through DHS and HHS grants/contracts. Thats around 94% of their entire operational charity revenue from taxpayers.
Baptist Child and Family Services eh?
View this document on Scribd Faith Based? Um, wheres the church ?
Now that CEO Mr. Kevin Dinnin has tripled his charities business with the federal government Im pretty sure hes making more than the $477,799.00 he was making in 2012.
Consider this Press Release:
BCFS, a global health and human services organization headquartered in Texas, today announced the expansion of its International Childrens Services program to serve unaccompanied foreign youth throughout the country. The new offices, located in New York, NY; Miami, FL; Houston, TX; Dallas, TX; Sacramento-area, CA; and Los Angeles-area, CA, will serve as regional hubs for BCFS new family support and evaluation programs.
BCFS will lead these programs as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) strategic plan to provide safe and stable homes for international youth who are granted permission to stay with family or sponsors already living in the country.
We are excited to expand our successful International Childrens Services program nationwide. Under the care and leadership of our new national and regional directors, countless children and families will receive the support they need to start their new lives off right, said Asennet Segura, BCFS Executive Director Residential Services Division. As BCFS works toward meeting this mission, we look forward to forging new friendships and partnerships throughout these new regions.
With this expansion, BCFS has named four new directors: (continue reading)
The Press Release goes on to note the hiring of: ♦ Celeste Garcia, National Program Director (based in San Antonio), ♦ Alexandra Peralta, Regional Director Eastern U.S. (based in Miami), ♦ Kelsey Lebrun Keswani, Regional Director Western U.S. (based in Los Angeles-area), and♦ Michelle Fuentes, Regional Director Central U.S. (based in Houston-area), along with a brief summary of their skillset.
Those rail cars might as well be loaded with gold.
Final thoughts: It is important to remember this information is only for one of the faith based organizations you have heard about recently. There are many others who are in the same operational business model as Baptist Child and Family Services. For the sake of this outline we stopped with what appears to be the newest and the one everyone was inquiring about.
However, given the scope of the expenditures, you might be interested to know that, again according to tax filing records, the United States Catholic Bishops also received $69.5 million in HHS grants for 2012 (LINK). Yes, thats $69,500,000+ in grants. And yes, thats about 98% of the total charity revenue for the organization. And yes, thats for the exact same type of activity.
Federal Charity courtesy of the U.S. Taxpayer. Is it really charity when the federal government is using the IRS to collect the offering?
Hey Glenn, about those soccer balls
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Half a million that’s all? Scarcely a scrap of that huge contract. (Got to put it in some sort of context.)
The mega-FEMA business has no choice BUT to get huge swaths of “private business” caught up in its sights. It’s the piece of gummit we never officially see.
Thanks for the info. I have been really frustrated at the lack of info on this group that seems shady as all get out
The bigger concern I would have is that being FEMA based probably takes all the evangelical opportunity out of it. Preach gospel to these kids and the dough would evaporate. This might be a United Way kind of thing... but Baptist?
What might have started out in the light got dragged into dim regions big time by the Forces of Darkness.
Beck is a jerk and wannabe cult leader. The sooner he blows away the better.
BCFS are money grubbing scum as are USCB. Cloaked in “charity” they endorse theft.
Theft is what illegals do. They steal from those who followed our immigration laws. They steal from Americans. Then they have the audacity to demand social services, citizenship, they protest in our streets for “rights”, and disrupt our governmental proceedings.
Illegal aliens deserve deportation with EXTREME prejudice.
Baptist ping
They aren’t private ventures here... they are funnels of huge amounts of OPM.
Illegal aliens deserve deportation with EXTREME prejudice.
WTH is Perry? WTH is Brewer? They have the law on their side, the Feds do not. Yet they sit there on their ass. WTH is their problem!
Defend the US!
You’re with us or against us. Do your job Perry & Brewer. History will judge you. You can shine, or be a Benedict Arnold. Your choice.
Rotsa ruck doing that... the camel is all the way into the tent now and is telling the Arab how to feed him.
We must all push together.
Interesting Article on Southwest Key..Acorn for La Raza. They are getting some of the Government pie, too.
In 2012 they pulled in $67,325,953.00 and $63,321,669 of taxpayer funds through DHS and HHS grants/contracts. Thats around 94% of their entire operational charity revenue from taxpayers.
A new class of cronies is discovered.
My wife pointed out that for years Perry has been bragging about how well Texas is doing. It’s hard to believe he doesn’t know that Texas will be the first to go down if he doesn’t stand up and do the job he was elected to do.
As for the Baptists, I’ll never set foot in another Baptist Church. (Or any other church) I know ALL Baptists aren’t involved but I haven’t heard any of the mega Baptist preachers condemning it either. I’ve been to several large Baptist Churches over the past few years. All of them with the SBC. Everyone of them had a huge room with Hispanics where the sermon was being interpreted. And I mean a huge room! I have to wonder if the American taxpayer didn’t build the facilities.
Over the years I’ve heard various theories about the anti Christ. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not organized religion.
“Our programs encourage the development of personal and academic skills while facilitating permanency for these refugees.” http://www.swkey.org/programs/shelters/
“Facilitating permanency” means violation of law. Southwest Key is advocates violation of law, shut them down.
If I had known this was going to happen I would have created a “faith based” charity. But in order to know I would have needed connections.
Pingers.
I think the problem is anyone can call themselves “Baptists.” For example, the “Westboro Baptist Church.” The question is whether this is a legitimate Christian organization, or has just highjacked the identity.
It needs to be pointed out that BCFS dropped the word Baptist from their name some time ago. A search of their web site for that word turned up zero. Apparently they no longer consider themselves a Christan organization.
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