by Gary Snyder
Nonprofit
Imperative has warned its readers about the problems
associated with cancer charities, particularly breast cancer.
Now we see a number of them coming clean. There will be more stepping forward!
This expose was
uncovered, in large measure, by the Chronicle
of Philanthropy. (We should support our media or the risks associated with
charity malfeasance will explode faster that it already has)
Less than two weeks after the Christian
relief charity World Help reported that it had overstated its 2011 revenues by 1,400 percent, in large part because it said
it had overvalued medicine it provided to other charities, one of its
beneficiaries is taking similar, though smaller, action.
The Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation, in
Harrisburg, Pa., said it would lower its 2011 revenues by removing the value
associated with the Gardasil HPV vaccine it received from World Help and then
donated to a charity in Ghana.
Greg Anderson, the group’s founder, did not
specify exactly how much the revenue would change, but the vaccine was valued
at $4.1-million, which accounted for 34 percent of the group’s revenue.
World
Help, which last fall ranked No. 77 on The
Chronicle’s list of 400 charities that raise the most from private
sources, lowered its 2011 revenue last month from the $239-million it reported
to the Internal Revenue Service to just $17-million. Nearly all of its revenue
came from the value it estimated for the medications, food, and other supplies
that it received from other charities to deliver overseas.
But
an examination by The Chronicle last
year revealed that those other charities—Catholic Medical Mission Board, Cross
International, and Direct Relief International—said they had not provided the
roughly $350-million worth of medicines over three years to World Help, as
listed in the Forest, Va., charity’s tax filings.
World
Help’s 940-percent revenue growth since 2007 had been driven almost entirely by
the value of those donated goods.
This
chart from Michigan attorney general's data is worth noting:
Charity
|
Gross
Receipts
|
% to
Charity
|
The Breast Cancer Charities of America, Inc.
|
$5,028,983
|
15.0%
|
The Breast Cancer Relief Foundation
|
$2,429,883
|
15.0%
|
The Breast Cancer Society, Inc.
|
$9,893,845
|
15.0%
|
Breast Cancer Survivors Foundation, Inc.
|
$2,272,942
|
10.0%
|
Cancer Fund of America, Inc.
|
$132,327
$2,525,271
$336,626
$543,097
$14,046
|
14.0%
19.1%
13.0%
11.0%
17.4%
|
Cancer Survivors' Fund
|
$1,093,608
|
10.0%
|
National Children Leukemia Foundation Inc
|
$54,199
|
15.0%
|
The National Children's Cancer Society, Inc.
|
$2,680,696
|
41.4%
|
National Foundation for Cancer Research
|
$176,296
|
20.8%
|
United Breast Cancer Foundation
|
$43,510
|
30.0%
|
United Breast Cancer Research Society, Inc.
|
$490,235
|
10.0%
|
Woman to Woman Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.
|
$2,354,949
$1,534,151
$123,364
|
10.0%
10.0%
35.0%
|
Breast Cancer Charities of America
|
$2,765,940
|
15%
|
Breast Cancer Society
|
$9,893,845
|
15.0%
|
Cancer Fund of America
|
$2,525,271
|
19.1%
|
Cancer Recovery Foundation of America
|
$4,085,181
|
15.1%
|
Children with Hair Loss
|
$1,360,321
|
17.5%
|
Children's Cancer Fund of America
|
$1,955,979
|
19.4%
|
Prevent Cancer Foundation
|
$126,081
|
$0 0.0%
|
Mission of Hope Cancer Fund
|
$441,179
|
20.0%
|
Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
|
$721,706
|
41.6%
|
Children's Leukemia Research Association, Inc.
|
$964,155
|
18.0%
|
Childhood Leukemia Foundation, Inc.
|
$403,687
|
13.0%
|
American Institute for Cancer Research
|
$837,249
|
21.4%
|
© Gary R. Snyder, All
Rights Reserved, 2013
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