Charity Network Inflates Efficiency and Reduces Accountability

Aug 1, 2009

In May of 2009, The Arizona Republic reported on its yearlong investigation of activities between the Don Stewart Association, a Phoenix-based televangelism ministry, and its affiliated secular charities...

All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F’s

Apr 1, 2009

While not all charities that have family members running them receive poor grades from the American Institute of Philanthropy, many of them do. The Chronicle of Philanthropy last September published...

Charity Head Stages Failed Coup

Apr 1, 2009

Larry Jones, founder of the well-known hunger charity Feed the Children, was recently mentioned in an ongoing court case in which the group's longstanding board of directors claim they were...

Charity Questions the Value of Donated Goods: How $118,000 Shipment May Be Worth Less Than $7,000 to Recipients

Apr 1, 2009

Feed the Children is practically a household name thanks to its celebrity endorsers and television infomercials featuring malnourished children in impoverished areas of the globe. The charity claims...

Food is Only a Small Portion of What Feed the Children Distributes

Apr 1, 2005

Feed the Children, an AIP F-rated charity that spends only 18% of its cash budget on program services and spends 60% on direct mail and television and radio ads, has...

Are Charity Boards Asleep at the Wheel? Nonprofit Governance Problems

Apr 1, 2003

Confidence in nonprofit organizations is at the lowest level in two decades and one-third of Americans who are 57 or older have less confidence in nonprofit organizations over the last...

Charity Circulated Forged Audits

Nov 1, 2000

When are audited financial statements unaudited? When the accompanying audit report is fake. The fiscal 1999 and 1998 financial statements of Feed the Children distributed to AIP and state regulators...

Charity Accused of Trying to Squelch Unflattering News About Itself

Sep 1, 1999

The Daily Oklahoman reported that the son of Larry Jones, founder and president of Feed The Children, stated in a personal bankruptcy filing that he owed his father's charity $950,000...

Feed the Children Execs Accused of Stealing Donated Supplies Intended for the Needy

Jul 1, 1999

After conducting a four-month investigation, WTVF, a Nashville television station, recently reported that it had secretly videotaped Feed the Children's Nashville front office "from the executive director on down"...

Holiday Mission Ads May Mislead Public

Dec 1, 1997

During the holiday season, our newspapers and mailboxes are replete with pictures of dreary homeless people digging into a turkey dinner and stories of how "Jack" or "Tom" was saved...