Cash? Not much. I'd rather buy a burger for a homeless person or hell give him some cash no he's going to go buy a bottle but he's shaking like fuck anyways and he may have a seizure or something. But giving money to large charities for the most part is a fucking joke and I know so firsthand because I used to run fundraising office that help fundraising 4 a bunch of mostly revolving around or dealing with law enforcement or firefighters related non-profit charities. all were legal 501(c)3 so I know exactly how much money actually go through the Charity's programs. Our standard rebuttal to somebody asking how much money actually goes to the charity was "well once the high cost of the fundraising campaign is paid, ALL the remaining funds go directly to the Charities and their programs. Now how come can we depend on you for this year? Did you want to do that $50 gold sponsorship or did you want to knock it down to the $25 bronze level?"
And if theyre "bright", they'll ask "oh ok, well how much is that?", our reply is "one store fundraising campaign is paid for it's usually at at least 10%". Which means five and a half years out of 10-10.5% goes to the charity, which means either buying new "Proud supporter" stickers/decals ( that they can put on their windows or the bumpers on their cars. Which a lot of times having a police supporter sticker on your car actually increases more chances of getting pulled over for whatever reason. Don't know how many times I was told that by somebody who donated the previous year stuck instruct the decal on their cars bumper and got pulled over at least once a month. Whereas without the decal they'd go years without being pulled over. Lol) or pain the daily salary or salaries of the officers or firefighters to go do an appearance or speak at something at a school or something. Which means the other four and a half years the charity only gets maybe a half percent or 1%.. and by fundraising campaign that means the salary of the director/owner(s)of umbrella company that owns the charities, & page 4 office space Lisa office supplies and such as well as the salaries and payroll of the workersrsising the money. And that's true for the vast majority of nonprofits no matter how mainstream and popular they are. The guys who own the company that I manage the office for and Chad top of the line S Class Mercedes one head and s55 the other headed S600 the heat Chad Cadillac Escalades that except one guy had two identical black ones. One guy had a big lifted custom F-350 that was for sure under the company's name but used as his personal vehicle. That guy was a little bit more conservative with his money but the other guy also had a brand new yellow NSX from when they relaunched in 2003 or 2004 he also had a black Ferrari 360,& another Ferrari I never saw and 2 Porsches I never saw, as well as a lifted supercharged all the bells and whistles custom H2 Hummer on 24s (which I know was also under the company's name) and a brand new Range Rover, & to $100,000 a custom choppers and a custom trailer that he would hell driven to Sturgis every year . He'd have somebody else drive the truck with the trailer and bikes while he took a plane
Lol l.. Never knew him to ever have ridden either bike. Lol) They were also partners in 2 restaurants in gaslamp/downtown San Diego ( that they used to launder money through. Forming a charity and being able to write a nice script is like a license to print money. Just myself I would generate 20 to $30,000 per week in donations now multiply that by 15 - 20 others bringing in anywhere from 1002 $30,000 per week ( much of that having to do with the fact that even though we said we only do fundraising once per year and ask the person once every year that's true but we also send you an invoice with the tax ID number on it with a return envelope about four or five times per year assuming that you're going to forget you already donated and will likely donate three more times that year before you catch on and stop mailing back in checks. A common practice for non-profits.
So, how much money?
Zero, champ😉
