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> In Oregon, the attorney general added that Kars4Kids failed to disclose that its offer of a "free vacation" for vehicle donors was designed to recruit people

• Waterluvian 1y ago
  Reading that whole page leaves me wondering if this, and possibly how many other charities are really just mechanisms for business/wealth/power development.
  • EndsOfnversion 1y ago
    Just assume 100% of them are unless they can prove otherwise.
  • toomuchtodo 1y ago
    Definitely. Another example: https://old.reddit.com/r/Devilcorp/comments/1amkza4/parker_project_a_family_in_need_paws_on_death_row/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Devilcorp/comments/1amkza4/parker_p... (Charity Navigator, GuideStar, and ProPublica’s non profit database are all useful to drilling down your suss out legitimacy)
  • staplers 1y ago
    No one gets accidentally wealthy, especially if they are in the business of "giving money away"
  • Maxious 1y ago
    Sorting an excel spreadsheet to find what the "largest" charities in canada are exposed $3.2 billion in fraudulent tax receipts claimed by 100,000 Canadian tax filers https://eaves.ca/2010/04/14/case-study-open-data-and-the-public-purse/ https://eaves.ca/2010/04/14/case-study-open-data-and-the-pub...
  • naniwaduni 1y ago
    You should mostly assume that they are, in general, vehicles for the empowered to direct toward goals of their choosing (e.g. reputation/legitimacy-building), and that those goals occasionally have externalities for anyone else as an accident at best.
  • throwaway48476 1y ago
    Wait until you hear about the religious charity lottery exemption.
  • xnx 1y ago
    It would probably be a good idea to eliminate tax exemptions for nonprofits.