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To get donations, a number of charities are besieging the public with aggressive money-raising tactics. They even turn the job over to professionals who keep a hefty portion of what they collect. In a study of 168 telemarketing campaigns, Connecticut’s Public Charity Unit found that 73% of the money raised went to solicitors. A North Carolina survey found that solicitors kept 81%, and the Minnesota Attorney General investigated a charitable campaign in which solicitors claimed 83% of the money raised.
In 1988, the United States Supreme Court ruled that states:
cannot limit the percentage solicitors take in fees from the amount collected for charity,
cannot compel solicitors to tell donors that they are paid fundraisers, and
cannot make solicitors tell potential donors how much of a previous year’s solicitation
actually went for charitable purposes.
You
can judge an organization’s practices, as well as its veracity, by asking them
to send you a copy of their federal Form 990.
All federally tax-exempt nonprofit organizations that have $25,000.00 or
more of gross receipts for the year are required to file this annual
informational tax return. Churches and
religious orders are exempt from the requirement. However, they can voluntarily file.
Charities must make the forms for the previous three years available for public inspection at the charity’s main office. Most national charities are divided into chapters with the main office of each chapter in a far distant city like Washington, DC. How is that for evasion?
You can also get a copy of the
federal annual informational tax return Form 990 from the Disclosure Office
of any IRS District Office. It is
necessary to have the employer
identification number of the charity.
If you ever get to look at the Form 990, you will find out how much the charity spent for fundraising fees, salaries and more. You will be shocked.
When a solicitor
telephones you regarding a charity, say:
1. Are you a federally tax-exempt nonprofit organization?
2. What is your employer identification number?
3. Please
send me a copy of your federal annual informational tax return Form 990
including Schedule A with all six pages of each form along with all
attachments, statements and extensions as filed with the IRS for the most
recent year.
Very few so-called charitable organizations will send you this information. When they do, it is usually incomplete. They do not want you to know the amount of those unconscionable salaries and perquisites.
by Robert A. Kroboth www.citizengadfly.com
Please print and distribute copies of this publication and put this
link on your web site.
Some tax-exempt
organizations have their most recent federal annual informational tax return
Form 990 available on their web site.
Some will send you a copy by e‑mail.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY NATIONAL HOME OFFICE
1599 Clifton Rd NE
Atlanta GA 30329-4251 (404) 320-3333
EIN 13-1788491
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION (NATIONAL CENTER)
1701 N Beauregard St # 100
Alexandria VA 22311-1733 (703) 549-1500
EIN 13-1623888
2001 January 2 No response to request for copies of IRS Form 990.
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, INC
7272 Greenville Av
Dallas TX 75231-4576 (214) 373-6300
EIN 13-5613797
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
61 Broadway
New York City NY 10006-2701 (212) 315-8700
EIN 13-1632524
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
& ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES
17th & “D” Sts NW
Washington DC 20006-5307 (703) 206-7851
EIN
53-0196605
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
681 5th Av
New York City NY 10022
EIN
1995 November 30 Request
for copies of IRS Form 990 was denied unless $50.00 was paid.
CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
2000 E Red Bridge Rd
Kansas City MO 64131-9971 (816) 942-2000
EIN
1995 November 16 Request for copies of IRS Form 990 was denied.
CHILDREN’S MIRACLE NETWORK
4525 S 2300 East # 202
Salt Lake City UT 84117-4426 (801) 278-8900
EIN 87-0387205
COMIC RELIEF
5959 Triumph St
City of Commerce CA 90040-1609
EIN
1995 November 17 No response to request for copies of IRS Form 990.
1999 November 15 No response to request for copies of IRS Form 990.
FEED THE CHILDREN, INC
PO Box 36
Oklahoma City OK 73101-0036 (405) 942-0228
EIN 73-6108657
MARCH OF DIMES BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION
1275 Mamaroneck Av
White Plains NY 10605-5201 (914) 428-7100
EIN 13-1846366
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION, INC
3300 E Sunrise Dr
Tucson AZ 85718-3208 (520) 529-2000
EIN 13-1665552
www.mdausa.org/special/taxforms
NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
1012 14th St NW #
600
Washington DC 20005-3410 (202) 737-6444
EIN
1993 January 24 Request
for copies of IRS Form 990 was denied.
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
1800 Johnson St # 300
Baltimore MD 21230-4998 (410) 659-9314
EIN
1995 November 24 No response to request for copies of IRS Form 990.
1999 November 19 Request for copies of IRS Form 990 was denied unless $4.30 was paid. Letter was sent by Certified Mail which cost them $3.42. Prior to the letter being sent, they phoned this publisher long distance.
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION
30 E 33rd St # 1100
New York
City NY 10016-5337 (212)
252-1964
EIN 13-1673104
2001 January 2 No
response to request for copies of IRS Form 990.
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
733 3rd Av 6th
Fl
New York City 10017-3288 (212) 986-3240
EIN
13-5661935
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA, INC dba CHILDREACH
155 Plan Way
Warwick RI 02886-1099 (401) 738-5600
EIN 13-5661832
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION
54 Wilton Rd
PO Box 950
Westport CT 06881-0950 (203) 226-7271
EIN 06-0726487
2001 January 2 No response to request for copies of IRS Form 990.
UNITED WAY OF AMERICA
701 N Fairfax St
Alexandria VA 22314-2045 (703) 836-7112
EIN 13-1635294
WORLD VISION, INC
34834 Weyerhaeuser Way S
PO Box 9716 (800) 260-9909
Federal Way WA 98063-9716 (253) 815-1000
EIN 95-1922279
TAX-EXEMPT
ORGANIZATIONS
by Robert A. Kroboth www.citizengadfly.com
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Every city has a voluntary,
unified charity organization to receive and disperse funds to local charities
that participate in the fundraising.
Citizens can even specify
to which individual charity they wish their contribution to frequent. Citizens vote with their money. It is their freedom of speech.
Taxpayers should not be
forced to contribute money to any religious organization. The United States Constitution and most
state constitutions provide for separation of church and state.
Most city councils and
state legislatures violate this separation of church and state by contributing
taxpayer money to religious organizations.
These religious organizations are not required to file a tax-exempt
nonprofit corporation’s federal annual informational tax return Form 990 nor
state mandatory annual financial reports.
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