The website for the Miracle Match Foundation says the charity charter was approved last year, giving it tax-exempt status. Apparently that is not true.
After it filed its
2004 financial statement six years late, the
IRS revoked Miracle Match's non-profit status in 2010.
According to its 2004 financial statements filed with the IRS, Miracle Match was
able to spend only $3,616 on "sick kids/family support" and
nothing for research, while listing a negative balance of $377,000 for that
year.
Even without a
favorable IRS ruling, the organization put on three events last year, featuring players
including Pete Sampras, Chris Evert, Mats Wilander, Todd Martin and Andy
Roddick. But Roddick allegedly didn’t get paid because the checks that were sent by the
charity bounced. Roddick claims the charity continues to use his likeness on
its website as of late in February.
Miracle Match was founded by in 1997 by Grand Rapids tennis
pro Bill Przybysz, a former tennis player,
after he was diagnosed with leukemia. He says he beat
leukemia. Przybysz filed for bankruptcy
in 2010. In 2010 the trustee managing his bankruptcy moved to force a
debtor examination of Przybysz because he believes he "has not been
forthcoming or has been inconsistent about" his financial affairs. The
trustee is trying to find out where all the money went and suspects some loans
were repaid "on fraudulent terms." Still his bankruptcy filings listed the foundation as a
co-debtor and is listed in one of 14 lawsuits in which his petition
says there are either cases pending or judgments granted against him.
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