Russ Wilson won NFL’s Man of the Year in 2020…
but reports have surfaced that his charity has an unusually low payout of revenue to the intended recipients… but high levels of compensation to the “employees “ of the charity.
1 of the employees of the charity also works for Russ and Ciara for their personal business matters.
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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/russell-wilsons-why-not-foundation-174735657.html
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Looks like Russ might cooking…. the books… 
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Unfortunately this is pretty typical and why I’m not huge on going thru a charity to benefit a person or a group.
Sad, but true, a lot of charities are basically scams.
Farve backs him up as being legit.
I continue to despise him more and more with every passing day.
Athlete’s charity is actually a dark money payoff tool/family and friends feeding trough/ tax dodge?
It’s not surprising……
but sickening that that he stood up there and accepted “Man of the the year” under those pretenses….
Something similar happens w the wounded warrior foundation. And it’s a shame bc of the whole point the organization. But it’s a dirty little secret inside the military……when I worked for the DOD we did not send people to the WWF……we would send them only to organizations where the BULK of the donation went to the actually military members.
Fraternal Order of the Police was the same way when I was involved in it. I’ll never donate to any charity over the phone……most of the money goes to the workers.
When I was in the military they used to have a booklet that showed the % of the money donated that actually went to the goal of the charity. 90% or above was a solid number. 95% or above is REALLY good.
Seems to do the same thing. This charity not on their though, which is usually a bad sign for the charity.
It is kind of crazy. I typically give to Saint Jude because I know that they do a good job with administrative costs and that most of the money goes directly toward charity. I just looked it up and found that 82% of donations goes directly to the charity. I thought it was better than this but if true, it is what it is. I’m kind of shocked though that if I send in $100, that $18 of goes to administrative costs. I understand nothing gets done for free but 18% still seems pretty high.
A little more research shows they take in about $2 billion per year of donations and have just over $5 billion in reserves, which would pay for the next 4 1/2 years without any more donations. I just find it hard to believe that it costs $360 million per year in administrative costs. I understand mass mailing, buying television time, and payroll, but it still seems lofty.
I’ll still give to Saint Jude because I think it’s a worthwhile charity. But that’s about the only one I make significant donations to.
Thanks WCLF, I didn’t know about this resource. Fortunately the charity I recently picked up for a monthly contribution passes their scrutiny with flying colors.
Donating to these kinds of charities is pretty much paying the so called organizers big money . Recipient’s gets pennies on the dollar.
But don’t you want to round your order up to the nearest dollar to help orphans with cancer to get heightening surgery to graduate high school?
The girl at Dairy Queen asked if I would round up my order for the children’s hospital, but she neglected to give me my total before asking. I said yes. I looked at my receipt and the change on my order came up to 3 cents, meaning she “rounded me up” 97 cents. I stopped rounding up after that.
Small town, our grocery store raises money several x a year for various causes using the rounding up function. I do it because outside of St Jude’s I donate very little otherwise. Gave money to Viet Nam vets over the phone once and a guy stopped by for the check for the Sheriff’s Association. Got pissed and called the vet’s and they said it was their only way of raising money so I asked why there weren’t vet’s doing it, silence. Boy Scouts want $20 for a tin of popcorn, I give 'em $5 and tell 'em ti quit selling that crap. Doesn’t keep me from waiting patiently for the Girl Scouts to trot out their cookies early and often.
it’s pretty ballsy for ‘multimillion profit margin’ corporations who underpay their employees to ask for more money from the customers for ‘insert charity here’.
they’d get more street cred from me if they said like XX cents from every order goes to whatever.
I was told they were blind orphans
False. No, it is not “typical.” Having worked with (actual) nonprofits for years and done consulting for charities for the better part of 15 years, it takes 2 minutes of actual research to determine whether or not a charity is legitimate.
Of the DOZENS of orgs I’ve either worked with or given to, I’ve had maybe one experience where something was amiss.
Don’t “not give” because you had one bad experience or read a silly article.
Come on. Be better.
I think “charities” have to give like 6% of their collections to be considered as such. Lots and lots and lots of dirtballs preying on our generosity out there. As has been said, it’s possible to research and verify how much is given. But buyer beware on this stuff, for sure.
