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 Beck’s “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 it’s 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.
He’s 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 that’s what FEMA was for….. oh well, I digress.
Now, at this point I’d 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” !
I’ll 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 I’ve 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, they’re 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
THAT’s a single grant.
One grant for:
One Hundred Ninety Million, Seven Hundred Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Five Dollars. $190,707,505.00
And there’s more than a few MORE:
And yes as you scroll to the bottom you’ll note that we are only half-way through the year and this entity has received over a QUARTER BILLION dollars. OK, now you’re beginning to get the picture.
Taxpayer dollars.
I’m 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. That’s around 94% of their entire operational “charity revenue” from taxpayers.
“Baptist Child and Family Services” eh?
View this document on Scribd “Faith Based”? Um, where’s the church ?
Now that CEO Mr. Kevin Dinnin has tripled his “charities” business with the federal government I’m pretty sure he’s 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 Children’s 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 Children’s 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, that’s $69,500,000+ in grants. And yes, that’s about 98% of the total charity revenue for the organization. And yes, that’s 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…..
It sounds like religiously you align with the left.
Most anti-Christian voters are lefties.
Just for the record the group that is doing ‘work’ in Texas and other places is not associated with any Baptist anything. I think someone must have googled a transposed set of letters and came up with that. This looks like a community organizer type of effort. There is no indication of a faith based relationship at all. It appears to be funded almost exclusively by government grants.
This is NOT the Baptist Family and Children’s Services.
“Our team consists of medical and mental health experts, disability policy and rights advocates, former fire and police leaders, national emergency planning and training experts, legal professionals, academicians, research and policy professionals, and public health veterans. It also includes former department leaders from FEMA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.”
From their own web site. Hardly a faith based organization
has anyone divided 3.7 BILLION by the number of people in the USA?
3,700,000,000 divided by 310,000,000 equals ....
PER PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know what an “anti-Christian” voter is. I assume you mean people who vote against Christian values. I know many people who truly believe themselves to be and say they are Christians who vote democrat every time. I have nothing to do with them.
I agree that most “anti-Christians” vote liberal. They go to the polls with the Christians and atheists and always vote democrat and always curse republicans. But they don’t hang out with each other. They’re walking contradictions. But, hey, they’re liberals.
There are also atheists who vote conservative. Plenty are on this forum.
I know there are all types who vote all different ways. But what I was talking about was the organized religions. I think they’re frauds.
What nonsense, very few atheists vote republican, and very few Southern Baptists vote democrat.
The base of conservatism is practicing Christians.
Assuming you vote republican while being anti-Christian, you are a rare voter, the overwhelming percentage of you are lefties.
First of all, quite a few atheists vote republican and that is a fact. Bottom line is people of all religious beliefs vote both parties.
Second, apparently you know very few Southern Baptists. I’ve known a lot of them over the years and I’d venture to say half of them vote for democrats because half of them don’t pay attention. Let me tell you about a family of relatives of mine. The couple and both adult children and their spouses vote democrat and they’re all Baptists. One of the woman’s brothers is an atheist who’s married to a Baptist and they both vote democrat. The other brother is non demoninational Christian and he votes conservative.
I have siblings who are Baptist and voted democrat their whole lives. Only in 2007 did they really start paying attention and started voting conservative.
And third, what makes you assume I’m anti Christian? And what do you mean the overwhelming percentage of “you are lefties”? Who is “you”? If you’re saying the overwhelming percentage of anti Christians are lefties, I can agree with that statement.
But I’m not anti Christian. I AM anti organized religion. I don’t believe Heaven is going to be divided into denominational sections.
Important post, thanks
Your “facts” don’t jive with the facts.
Very few atheists vote republican, they are too tiny a group to get real numbers on and they are lumped together as atheists and agnostics, with about 23% of those voting GOP in 2008.
You claim to have been a Southern baptist, and they are the most republican of all, about an 80% GOP vote, for instance, 80% in 2008.
Anyone like you calling to forbid us practicing our Christian faith and meeting in our churches, IS anti-Christian, and you sure don’t know your voting facts and are willing to lie to besmirch Southern Baptists, the most anti-democrat voters in America, your are lying when you say they are only a 50/50 vote.
Liz, for years, we have been trying to drag into the sunlight how most of of our so called non profits pretending to help the down trodden are really huge money troughs for the left wing pigs getting their big salaries from the faux non profits.
This one may be the el supremo one.
“The Southern Baptist Convention should be screaming about how wrong this is and how they’re not affiliated with them. Why don’t they?”
The problem is once a conservative pastor/priest or lay member uses the pulpit or social media to condemn anything the rats do like this, the churches they belong to could lose their charitable tax free status.
During the Clintoon bad behavior, I was a senior warden and my conservative friends in other churches wanted our clergy/priests to say something from their pulpits specifically about Clintoon’s bad behavior. Or allow us to condemn the bad behavior in a meeting at our churches.
We were warned that once we did something like that in an official capacity at a church, that church could lose its non profit status.
A double standard has been in place re political talk in churches for decades. The pastors/priests in liberal controlled churches and black churches, can say any political thing and even have rats running for office deliver part of the sermon or lecture from their pulpits with no problem. If conservatives even tried to discuss our side of a political issue, we could endanger the non profit status of our churches.
Where in the hell did you get that I don’t want you to be able to practice your religion? Geez, learn to pay attention.
Then you call me a liar when I state my OPPINION. Show me the facts what percentage Baptists vote republican. You don’t know because there’s no way to know. I simply told you about 8 Baptists that I know personally and another I know who used to vote democrat but started watching Fox and opened their eyes. There are millions of Baptists whose eyes still have scales on them.
Now go away.
When you call for the end of the practice of Christianity by forbidding churches and trying to label them as the “anti-Christ”then you are calling for the end of Christians to practice their faith.
Quoted from you: “Over the years I’ve heard various theories about the anti Christ. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not organized religion.”
“Sounds like they need a third religion like we need a third party.”
“I AM anti organized religion.”
Now here is a quote from Conservapedia:
“The GOP identification slipped a little in 2008, but about 80% of the Southern Baptists voted for McCain over Barack Obama.”
By the way, you claim to have been a Southern Baptist yourself, but you don’t seem to know them very well since you think they are a 50/50 vote, instead of being the MOST republican voters in America.
U sound a great deal like that thing on TV — Bill Maher.....
You sound like you love Bill Maher. Is this you, Ann Coulter?
What do you mean I “claim to be” Southern Baptist? Are you calling me a liar? That sounds like something a good Southern Baptist would do.
By the way, when was the last time you heard a Southern Baptist leader condemn the liberal agenda? They don’t. Because they’re afraid they’ll lose their tax exempt status. Thus, they serve two masters....God and money. What do you think they’ll do when the government orders them to perform gay marriages? Or when the government orders them to stop saying “In Jesus’ name”? They’ll probably say “But we’ve played along and been good all these years. We’ve never fought you on any of it. Please don’t take our ‘Jesus’ away.” But it will be too late.
As far as I’m concerned, any religion, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, who takes money from the government is not a religion I will support. And any religion that is afraid to speak out against “Caesar” is denying Christ. Especially when “Caesar” is ording people to do things that go against the church’s teaching.
I won’t support a rino. Nor will I support ANY organization that supports rinos and democrats.
You are a liar, you are lying about the Southern Baptists and trying to portray them as liberal and voting 50% democrat.
The Southern Baptists are the most anti-democrat vote in America.
Just like the left, you dislike most those who are the most conservative voters.
Ansel., he is a recent troll anus.......
“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.”
Time to lay off the weed...
“By the way, when was the last time you heard a Southern Baptist leader condemn the liberal agenda?”
That would have been last Saturday, from my pastor at the Saturday Men’s meeting. I missed church on Sunday, so it couldn’t have been Sunday.
“In another finding, SBC pastors overwhelmingly favor Republican John McCain over his two Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Eighty percent of SBC pastors plan to vote for McCain. Obama was supported by 1 percent of pastors, while Clinton gained 0 percent of pastors’ support...
...When asked whether they “believe that the media has overstated the threat of global warming,” 86 percent of SBC pastors responded in the affirmative...
...The study findings are based on surveys conducted by LifeWay Research in spring 2008. “
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=28134&ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0528
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