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With 800k in bank, star's group hasn't donated dime since 2006. ... According to the Jane Fonda Foundation’s most recent tax return--filed last year and covering calendar year 2011--the organization’s cash, stock, and bond portfolio was valued at $798,133. The filing lists the 75-year-old actress as the foundation’s president and chairman of the board, and reports that she devotes 10 hours a week to the charitable group. ... IRS regulations require private foundations to make annual distributions totaling at least five percent of its assets

The Jane Fonda Foundation did not make a single charitable donation in the five years for which it has filed federal tax returns, even though the organization was valued at nearly $800,000. According to the foundation’s 2011 tax return, the organization’s assets were valued at $798,133, but it made no contributions that year or the four previous years, The Smoking Gun first reported. The group made a single $1,000 donation in 2006 to the Atlanta Obstetric and Gynecology Society. The foundation also invested in the stock market with 166 different trades, which netted about $2,200, the report said. Private foundations...