IRS forms show charity's money isn't going to disabled vets?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/05/08 20:17:52

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A national charity that vows to help disabled veterans and their families has spent tens of millions on marketing services, all the while doling out massive amounts of candy, hand sanitizer bottles and many other unnecessary items to veteran aid groups, according to a CNN investigation.

The Disabled Veterans National Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., and founded in 2007, received about $55.9 million in donations since it began operations in 2007, according to publicly available IRS 990 forms.

Yet according to the DVNF's tax filings with the IRS, almost none of that money has wound up in the hands of American veterans.

Instead, the charity made significant payments to Quadriga Art LLC, which owns two direct-mail fundraising companies hired by the DVNF to help garner donations, according to publicly available IRS 990 forms.

Those forms show the charity paid Quadriga and its subsidiary, Brickmill Marketing Services, nearly $61 million from 2008 until 2010, which was the last year public records were available.

pepper5419 2012/07/07 02:36:30

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DVNF donations are probably going to funding Quadriga Art. Which is like funding a company that runs a street-corner shell game.

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sglmom 2012/05/21 04:21:06

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This is why when I make a decision to donate to a SPECIFIC Charity ..
I make sure it is going where it is DESIGNATED ..
there are so many SCAMs out there ..
claiming to be 'charities'
(another like this is PETA)
that I'll AVOID donating to any which has huge overhead costs ..

(and just do my own donations locally .. with NEEDED items or a Bit of my time).

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