![]() ![]() Just this week, the agency wrote AADC that it was not adequately identifying donors who gave $200.00 or more to AADC in a recent reporting period. Of course, I might get the treatment that AADC gives the FEC. #Clever girl coalition agreement querious update#If someone at AADC responds, I’ll update this post. But it clearly suggested AADC dwells in a bad fundraising neighborhood.Īs I did in 2020, I sent a request for comment on many of the points above to AADC through the Contact page of its website. The story did not explicitly call AADC a scam. The article referenced AADC, but only in the context that it did business with one vendor that serviced a number of other faux charities. The article mentioned a number of sketchy PACs, including several I had written about, Heroes United PAC ( click here), American Coalition for Injured Veterans ( click here) and Law Enforcement for a Safer America PAC ( click here). Six months after my last swing at AADC, the online news site Salon published a long article about what it called the ‘shadowy multi-million-dollar ‘scam PAC’ network. Or put another way, less than 5 cents of every dollar donated went to the cause, which AADC proclaims at the top of its web page(festooned by a picture of a cute little girl), “We fight for the needs of those affected by disability.” That was less than 5% of total outlays of $1.53 million. But giving AADC the benefit of the doubt, it appears that sum was no more than $55,000. Would you want to know this before making a donation?ĪADC’s filings with the FEC, which isn’t a very effective regulator, were a little vague on how much the organization might have spent in advocacy, like cause advertising, lobbying and the like, which is legal. Put another way, 93 cents of every dollar donated went right out the door to fundraising rather than help children with problems. That’s a fundraising efficiency ratio–the percentage of donations remaining after fundraising expenses–of just 7%. On December 21, 2020, it had in the bank all of $3,658.91.īy my reading of AADC’s filings, $1.07 million of that $1.15 million in contributions was spent in fundraising and related expenses. And one thing that AADC wasn’t doing was accumulating a war chest for future elections. Especially for a year like 2020, which included a hot presidential election, and races for most of Congress, too. This by simple math is an all-time low for any political action committee on record. Here’s how much AADC said it gave to political candidates: AADC reported raising $1.15 million in contributions. ![]() How terrible? I now have reviewed AADC’s filings with the Federal Election Commissionfor all of 2020. And the financial efficiencies are still terrible. Judging from recent comments appended to the bottom of that post by Internet users, AADC is still soliciting like crazy mainly using its autism DBA, even hitting up would-be donors with dementia. Some, as you will see below, have used stronger language in describing such operations. I called AADC a “faux charity,” as it was a PAC presenting itself to would-be donors as a reputable good-works organization. ![]() Folks contributing to AADC were helping the battle against autism in no meaningful way. Its financial efficiencies were dreadful, with almost all the donations going to fundraising expense rather than any worthy purpose. Yes, a PAC–a political action committee, which is not a charity at all, of course, but a conduit to make contributions to political campaigns and perhaps push a cause.Īt the time AADC, which listed Orland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, as its mailing address, had been around for less than a year. A little digging by me showed it was just a name used by American Alliance for Disabled Children PAC. Last June in this space I wrote about American Coalition for Autistic Children after it called the New To Las Vegas world headquarters asking for a donation in support of autism efforts. ![]()
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