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Tax-Funded anti-poverty groups pay their CEO's huge


Posted: Jul 21, 2017

Top officials with 14 anti-poverty nonprofits were paid as much as $869,900 as their organizations were enriched with $900 million of taxpayer money, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has found. The activist groups received as much as 85 percent of their revenue from federal, state and local governments and collectively spent millions on lobbying, TheDCNF’s analysis found. Also, half of the charities’ CEOs made political contributions – nearly all of which was to Democratic candidates. The groups pursue various activist causes, but each participates in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Approved Counseling Agencies program, which pays nonprofits across the country to help people “find housing, make more informed housing choices, or keep their current homes,” according to HUD. HUD awarded at least $42 million to 204 such groups in 2016, which was predicted to assist more than 1.4 million households, agency data shows. The department even has a step-by-step guide that shows organizations how to become a nonprofit and ultimately a counseling agency. HUD considers the charities’ prior performance when vetting their applications for the grants, which includes the number of impacted clients, past budgets and how grant money was spent previously. At least 14 recipients appear to be national-level activist groups and have raked in $916 million across government from 2013 through 2015, TheDCNF’s analysis found. Those organizations paid their top leaders more than $341,00 on average in 2015, according to their IRS Form 990 tax forms, which is nearly 14 times the annual income for a four-person family at the federal government’s official poverty line. Meanwhile, almost half of the revenue the groups received came from the government on average between 2013 and 2015. Six of the nonprofits spent a total of nearly $3.2 million on lobbying during those three years. Additionally, seven of the charities’ CEOs contributed nearly $44,000 to Democrats since 2008 and only contributed to one Republican candidate during the same time. National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial , a former New Orleans mayor, received a higher salary than any other official in the nonprofits, taking home nearly $870,000 – more than 35 times the poverty line for a four-person family – in 2015. Morial’s “energetic and skilled leadership has expanded the league’s work around an empowerment agenda … with a renewed emphasis on closing the economic gaps between whites and blacks, as well as rich and poor Americans,” according to the Urban League’s website. He also contributed the second most to political candidates – $10,400, all to Democrats since 2008, according to OpenSecrets.org. The nonprofit’s information page adds: “The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African-Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.” More than one-third – or nearly $55 million – of Urban League’s total revenue came from the government. Operation HOPE chairman, founder and CEO John Bryant received the second highest salary – nearly $542,000 in 2015 – and has donated $2,750 to Democrats since 2008. “Eighty-one cents of every dollar raised by Operation HOPE is directed to help clients and create impact in economically challenged communities,” Chief Operating Officer Dave Matthews told TheDCNF, noting his nonprofit’s four-star rating with Charity Navigator. “Almost 90 percent of HOPE’s funding is contributed by the private sector, specifically financial institutions.” Likewise, TheDCNF found that 14 percent of Operation HOPE’s funding comes from the government. The group received nearly $3.8 million of public money, the second least among the nonprofits analyzed. NeighborWorks America received the biggest grant from HUD among the counseling agencies in 2016 with $3 million, HUD data shows. But that figure is minimal compared to the total funding the nonprofit has received from all federal and local governments. NeighborWorks raked in nearly $613 million in government funding between 2013 and 2015, accounting for more than 85 percent of its total revenue, tax forms show. The group received significantly more public funding than any other group TheDCNF analyzed in terms of both dollars and as a share of its revenue. The National Council On Aging – a liberal activist group for senior citizens – received the second most public money over the three-year period, taking nearly $99 million – or 79 percent of its total revenue, tax forms show. The group spent more than $35,00 on lobbying during that time and president and CEO James Firman has donated $3,800 to Democrats since 2008. The National Council of La Raza, a liberal Hispanic activist group recently renamed Unidos US, spent significantly more on lobbying — $1.3 million between 2013 and 2015 — than any other group analyzed by TheDCNF. Additionally, Unidos US President and CEO Janet Murguia was paid nearly $460,000 in 2015. She has contributed $14,800 to Democrats since 2008, served in President Bill Clinton’s White House, and is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Her political contributions exceeded those of all other CEOs TheDCNF analyzed, according to OpenSecrets.org. Murguia donated $1,500 to one Republican candidate during those years. Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) Spokeswoman Julia Helmreich explained how her group received its funding. RCAC was successful in competing for a HUD Housing Counseling training contract based on its expertise, excellent housing counseling staff, the positive outcomes of families that have achieved homeownership and the cost effectiveness of our proposed work plan,” she told TheDCNF. “No federal funds were used for lobbying. RCAC focuses its lobbying efforts to secure resources for low-income rural communities.” The organization spent the third-most on lobbying among the 14 charities – more than $529,000 between 2013 and 2015. RCAC also received nearly 78 percent of its revenue during those years from taxpayers. The Housing Partnership Network received about one-fifth of its funding from the government and paid CEO Thomas Bledsoe nearly $450,000 in 2015. The group distributed $5.6 million to its network members from 2013 and 2015 and “served 107,058 households,” Housing Partnership Network Spokeswoman Liza Dube said. The group kept an average of 15 percent of its federally-funded housing counseling grants for administrative and oversight purposes. TheDCNF was unable to analyze one group, The National Association of Real Estate Brokers Investment Division. TheDCNF could not find tax forms for the the division, which is an affiliate of the national association and apparently files its 990s separately. TheDCNF selected the other groups by combing through HUD’s list of approved counseling agencies and selecting only national organizations that appeared to advocate on behalf of specific communities, such as minorities, seniors, the homeless and impoverished. Neither HUD nor any of the remaining groups responded to TheDCNF’s request for comment. ;

Million dollar compensation for nonprofits. - About 2700 received annual compensation of

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more than $1 million in 2014, according to a study of IRS Form 990 returns performed by the Wall Street Journal. This is about one-third more than received $1 million or more in 2011.

This article doesn't surprise me in the least. Having spent - 3-1/2 years in my mid 50s unemployed

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and almost homeless (I now have a job that pays well) I took advantage of some of these programs and was able to pick myself back up. Seeing how these programs work from the inside I was stunned when I realized how much taxpayer money was flying around all these programs.

Homelessness​ is a billion dollar industry, and yet they continually cry and moan that they need more money and that their budgets are constantly being cut. They don't really want to cure homelessness. Otherwise, they would be out of business. After all, how else can they expand and grow.

This is true of most of these industries.

Well see it's okay for them. They have the "right" - politics. The upper mgmt

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of these places then kicks back a bunch to Democrat candidates.

You can't legisltate out of poverty. Remember the - bumper sticker "I fight

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poverty . . .I work”

Woman brags she's "raping the govt" by gaming the - welfare system.

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A new viral video shows a “Brooklyn mother of 3” bragging about how she takes advantage of welfare programs so that she doesn’t have to work. She is “proudly raping the government,” as she puts it. This video is proof that at least some Americans take advantage of the system.

Warning: this video contains profanity

Sounds like a Congressman. LOL. Disability fraud is - the new welfare fraud, has

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been since welfare-to-work. Look at all the shyster commercials basically promoting it.

I know, and I bet we all know, several people who are gaming SSI. I’ve tried reporting them several times but each time they want MY personal info. No, sorry, I’m not giving them my personal ID.
I would have - thought it was
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hard to get like SSD? SSI is for elderly, blind and disabled. How do they milk the system? I know several people who have tried to get SSD and it was almost impossible - and they had legitimate disabilities and were unable to work. I mean you have to have tones of medical proof from legitimate doctors.
In one case the guy didn't report that he returned to - work and continued to get benefits.
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She has 3 kids and she can sit on her rear and let - taxpayers support her. She doen't

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have to do a thing except kick out more kids to make sure the gravy train continues. It’s the system.

This has been going on for a long time. And to add insult to injury, most of the benefits are non-taxable.

And for some states, like California, which is supposedly third in welfare spending, according to the San Diego Union Tribune, the state resides 34% of the welfare recipients in the US with only 12% of the population.

So as you can see, it isn’t that some of the people are getting away with something. It’s the amount that are doing it.

We went through the drive-thru of a local BBQ joint - to splurger Mr. MT (hubby)

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Never again. Saw a “We Accept EBT” and promptly drove off and have not been back. We can’t afford take out bbq on our income but we have to pay for the EBT crowd’s bbq. Something is wrong with that picture.

There are really very few welfare recipients who are - legit. Nearly 95% are able-bodied

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and ought to be cut from the system.
Check your figures, a great majority are children, seniors... - sm
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and the working poor. Able bodied has nothing to do with it. Social Security disability has nothing to do with welfare.
I read an article on food stamp use falls to lowest - in 7 years. I was at Walmart
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looking for some fried chicken from the deli, and there wasn’t any. So I looked in the refrigerated section and there was some there with a time stamp so recent that it barely had time to cool.

Then I noticed they had put out some fresh, so I went back and noticed that the price was the same. I asked the employee how come, since most places put the leftovers in the frig section at a discount.

She said they do that for the EBT cards. They can’t buy food from the deli hot section. However, they can buy it from the refrigerated section and take it home to “prepare” it by heating it up.

That’s the kind of logic these government programs go by.

Some roll model. Speaking of fraud, did anything - ever come out of the discovery of

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rampant abuse in the obamaphone program?

Here's a breakdown state by state on who gets - Medicaid. Note the bait and switch?

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One concern is about "cuts" in the rate of projected increase of MONEY.
But the data provided is not about money. It is about number of people enrolled.

If you dig into the DOLLARS (which they don't show) and not the enrollment, you will find that ADULTS disproportionately consume far more dollars than moms and their children, and far more than Seniors 65-74.

So why does Center for American Progress not show dollars when their complaint is about money?

This type of report from CAP can be found copied verbatim in other news media too lazy to check the numbers for themselves.

Where are the fact checkers and fake news checkers for this type of story?

It's still shocking that half of the births in this country are Medicaid.

We live in New - Mexico and

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when I was laid off in 2008, when the recession started, I lost my benefits. My husband is a diabetic and we could have never afforded his medications without Medicaid. I did not have a preexisting condition, so I was not eligible and went without insurance until the Affordable Care Act. Welfare and Medicaid are 2 different things. Is it shocking that half of the births in this country are Medicaid? Not sure what the right wants - you either want everyone off Medicaid OR you want to not pay for birth control or abortions - which is it?
What? We are supposed to pay for abortions or the birth? - What about birth control?
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What about personal responsibility?
No, I was - responding to
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a post that said nearly half of the births are Medicaid - I just noted that the right doesn't want the births on Medicaid, the old white guys in the republican party scream about having to pay for birth control pills in insurance, and of course there is the anti-abortion frenzy on the right. I never said people shouldn't have personal responsibility, but the right needs to pick because people are going to get pregnant whether they are trying to or not!
No matter what, someone this will be the republican's - fault. People aren't responsible for themselv
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anymore and instead of prevention they want to use abortion as a means of birth control. I don't mean one mistake. This is the left's religion.
No it is not the - left's religion
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All the left sees is that the government has no place telling a woman what she can do with her body - end of story. The post was about Medicaid and how half of the births are supposedly under Medicaid - which I don't believe. My response was that if you don't want Medicaid, paying for other people's birth control, or abortions, there is little left. People are going to have sex by choice or by force and women will get pregnant. There has to be something that prevents unwanted and unneeded births! The right doesn't seem to want any of it!
People can do what they want, but they shouldn't - expect others to pay for it.
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That's the essence of freedom.

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