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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Given what?I am as big a fan of Brady as any but this does not look good. You can argue that he helps them raise a lot of money and what he gets back goes to charity but the optics do not look good given
Sure, it's totally legal. And overall Brady's involvement is unquestionably a huge win for Best Buddies.
But...
Why is a charity for disabled kids providing (according to the article) 98% of the funding of a charity that is (allegedly) very Tom Brady cause specific? Brady's got plenty of money. He should fund it himself or at a minimum run it as a truly independent charity, not one that gets the vast majority of its funding from another charity that has near zero common interests.
If I were a Best Buddies donor I'd be annoyed by this. I'd be donating to help disabled kids, not to (in effect) make a partial contribution to a Brady personal charity.
If you want to see an interesting IRS form 990 with local interest that the Globe should be far more interested in, this is the one to look at. Look at the names, the relationships and the figures. Who says you can't get rich off of charity. http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2014/042/691/2014-042691955-0c4c8397-9O.pdf
If you want to go down that road let's take a nice long look at the "charitable" foundation of that loofa faced sh.t gibbon who is pretending to be president. He uses the money to buy paintings of himself.
Or maybe that foundation of the family of his opponent in the recent election. Cuts both ways and neither are relevant to Brady.
Or maybe that foundation of the family of his opponent in the recent election. Cuts both ways and neither are relevant to Brady.
Or maybe that foundation of the family of his opponent in the recent election. Cuts both ways and neither are relevant to Brady.
Agree 100%. There is nothing more annoying that donating $ to a charity and then finding out the cash is purposed for something else.
However, in the grand scheme of things to criticize TB12 for "funneling" 6% of the total cash raised to another worthy charity is beyond absurd.
Its not like he bought a jet or donated it to the Human Fund on behalf of George Costanza....sheesh.
Does it really matter? Brady has a net worth of almost $200 million. Why is he even accepting money from a charity to fund his own? He should do it himself. Especially when he's giving the money to his high school, college and his children's schools among other things. Those are definitely things he should be cutting a check on with his own money.
Does it really matter? Brady has a net worth of almost $200 million. Why is he even accepting money from a charity to fund his own? He should do it himself. Especially when he's giving the money to his high school, college and his children's schools among other things. Those are definitely things he should be cutting a check on with his own money.
If I'm reading your post right it clearly matters to you and I.
If I had donated to Best Buddies and later learned my money went to a battered women's shelter in San Mateo, CA i'd be slightly annoyed but it was to a good cause nonetheless.
If it went to Gisele's charity which was designed to prevent cruelty to squirrels who run across a busy road then I would have a major problem.
Do you do any charity work not just throw $ around?