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"Little Leagues, Big Costs"
This five-day series chronicles the experiences with youth sports of high school and college athletes and coaches. By establishing "baseline data" that has been previously unreported, Dispatch reporters found a "corrupted" sports program overrun with angry parents and practices that cause severe injury to young athletes. Rising costs and financial competitions are added pressures to the industry.
Tags: youth-sports; IRS 990s; NCAA; NCAA Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act; Nexis; Ohio State; Gene Smith; Ohio High School Athletic Association; OHSAA; OSU
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Power Trips
Reporters from American Radio Works, Marketplace and a team of students from the Medill School of Journalism built a database from public records of travel disclosures made by members of Congress. They found that while lawmakers are banned from accepting gifts worth more than $50, they can, and do, accept "lavish, luxurious trips - often worth tens of thousands of dollars" from nonprofit organizations. Further reporting revealed that many of these nonprofits had lobbyists on their boards. The ten congress members who took the most trips averaged $143,000 apiece in sponsored travel.
Tags: Politicians; lobbyists; corruption; ethics; gifts; IRS 990; CAR; congressional travel; nonprofit organizations
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Secret lottery foundation/ governor's house
The Register investigates the political and business activities of Don Siegelman, Alabama's governor. Part of the stories focus on "secret fund-raising activities by the governor through what was thought to be a dormant nonprofit foundation to support a state lottery initiative," according to the contest entry summary. The rest of the stories reveal how a longtime supporter of the governor, using his accountant as a straw man, has bought Siegelman's private residence in Montgomery, Ala., for twice its appraised value.
Tags: elections; voters; donations; PACs; nonprofits; real estate; money and politics; IRS form 990
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Tourney behind on bills; PGA even lost big since ' 98
The Baltimore Business Journal reports on the "financial trouble at the State Farm Senior Classic, a PGA Tour-sponsored golf tournament." As the tournament lost its title sponsor, State Farm Insurance, it accumulated $1.15 million in debts, and is now facing demise. Meanwhile, the organizers kept on increasing the prize money, the Journal reports.
Tags: FOI request; 990 form; IRS; sports; debts; creditors; business
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Vice President's Quarters Draw Fund-Raisers' Bucks
"This story details how political friends and patrons of Vice President (Al) Gore gave money and gifts to the Vice President's Residence Foundation, a non-profit fund started in 1989 to fund renovations and improvements to the Vice Presidential mansion." Includes backgrounds about some of the "most generous contributors."
Tags: not-for-profit IRS 990s U.S. Naval Observatory influence Democratic party presidential race
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Anatomy of Bankruptcy
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports about "the rapid rise and equally rapid descent of the Allegheny Health empire, which became the nation's largest health-care failure when the nonprofit filed for bankruptcy in July 1998.... Built on a strategy that utilized heavy debt and almost total control of one individual and his board cronies, Allegheny bought financially struggling hospitals and medical schools, paid top dollar for physician practices and lived lavishly even as operating losses were mounting and the overall health-care environment was deteriorating.... Allegheny's offices and directors twice upped their liability insurance, from $50 million to $200 million, in the months before the bankruptcy filing...."
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Collection of stories about not-for-profits
The Wall Street Journal's "collection of stories on charitable abuses for private gain and the economic underpinnings of the not-for-profit world... The underlying theme of this story collection is the growing use of philanthropy for less-than-charitable purposes -- from avoiding taxes to building empires.... The beneficiaries of such devices: tax shelter promoters and their clients, the so-called angry affluent, who balk at the bite that taxes take from their new-found wealth. The victims: less affluent and less strategic taxpayers, who pay more than their share when those exploiting tax-avoidance schemes pay less..."
Tags: IRS Form 990 Internal Revenue Service IRS Congress split-dollar insurance limited partnerships
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What They Earned in 1996-97: A Survey of Private Colleges' Pay and Benefits
The Chronicle of Higher Education presents an annual survey of the top-paid officials at 475 private colleges that reflects sharp growth in executive pay at a time when the public is questioning costs in higher education. The report includes a chart of the highest paid officials at each college, a side-bar story on the concentration of highly paid presidents at colleges on Long Island and a side-bar story examining the extent to which colleges comply with IRS requirements that they report their lobbying expenditures.
Tags: 990; FOI; non-profit
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Many nonprofits look and act like normal companies-running businesses, making money. U.S. News & World Report looks at why they are not paying Uncle Sam. Included is a list of executive salaries paid and a graph showing the dramatic growth in revenues and assets of non-profits in the last 15 years. Organizations investigated include National Geographics Explorers Hall, the PGA Tour, Alta Bates Medical Center, the Humane Society, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and Underwriters Laboratories. (Oct. 2, 1995)
Tags: Pound Cohen Loeb CAR Tax Exempt Income Tax IRS 990 Charities 10 pgs.
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Warehouses of wealth: The tax-free economy
"Nonprofit businesses are American's fastest growing industry. Yet the government doesn't keep track. There are 1.2 million organizations tax-exempt as a nonprofit, including many surprisingly profitable ones. Like the NFL. ...[ The reporters] determined the magnitude and cost of these tax-exempt businesses, which made $500 billion in 1990 -- nearly six times the incomes of farms of five times that of utilities...Taxpayers make up for what these businesses don't pay -- more than $36 billion a year, by the reporters' calculations. What do taxpayers get in return? Damned little charity." Seven-part series includes: big profits, big salaries, growing commercialism of nonprofit hospitals, universities, museums and other institutions.
Tags: taxes; hospitals; endowments; Blue Cross; Blue Shield; donors; disclosure; nonprofit insurance and pensions; real estate; property; economics; Form 990s; IRS; executive salaries