Form 990 2016: Fill & Download for Free

Thought you’d never ask.The Clinton FoundationStrengthening the capacity of people to meet the challenges of global interdependenceAdd to My CharitiesDonate to this CharityPrintSHARERating ProfileProgramsHistorical RatingsIRS (Forms 990)Comments (460)Score(out of 100)RatingOverall Score & Rating94.74Financial97.50Accountability & Transparency93.00This rating was published 09/01/2016 using data provided by the charity on a consolidated pro forma 990 which was verified against 990s received from the IRS.Go to Charity Navigator to answer all your questions about the Clinton Foundation.Why isn't this organization rated?This organization is not eligible to be rated by Charity Navigator because it is a Private Foundation.Private foundations receive the majority of their money from only one individual, family or corporation. This differs from the public charities that Charity Navigator evaluates. Public charities have a broad-base of support from the general public as well as variety of other funding sources. The IRS requires that private foundations file a Form 990-PF which differs from the document public charities file. This makes it impossible for us to compare the financial performance of private foundations to public charities.Charity Navigator is the “gold standard” when you want information concerning any charity. Hundreds of agencies want us to donate to their cause. Only through a complete examination can anyone make a decision to donate.Donald Trump has screamed “pay for play” concerning the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton foundation is rated higher than the Red Cross.We can’t see mr.Trump’s tax returns. We can’t see anything about HIS foundation.It’s hypocritical to lie about a foundation. Why doesn’t Trump have the guts to show the world how a foundation taking money from other people should be run?What’s he hiding?

Everything you ever want to know about a charitable organization or nonprofit like Wounded Warrior Project is contained in their IRS Form 990 filing, required annually to preserve their 501(c)# tax-exempt status. The best aggregators for these filings are https://www.guidestar.org (which has wound down a bit since 2019), and Google searches: Searching “IRS Form 990 Wounded Warrior Project 2018” returns several investigations from ProPublica that suggest Wounded Warrior Project intentionally provided false information in their 990s to hide widespread, long-running “financial and accounting irregularities”.You probably don’t want to pay for the full GuideStar service, but there’s two pieces of information you get for free at https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-2370934 on Wounded Warrior Project:The info in the RED box is the CEO’s name and affiliation. The box in yellow is the nonprofit EIN (Employer Identification Number), which is basically a charity’s Social Security number. You can do deeper searches with the EIN (civil lawsuit filings, IRS/regulatory investigations, state regulatory actions) and learn a lot about the CEO and the 10 highest-paid employees, highest-paid vendors (which are often tied to the CEO or their family), and how their charitable giving ranks against other similar-sized, similar mission 501(c)# org.Here’s the link to the actual IRS Form 990 for Wounded Warrior Project’s most recent filing, from a document collection from ProPublica:Wounded Warrior Project Inc, Form 990 - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublicaThe form has a bunch of red flags:Part V, Line 4a disclosure of accounts held in a foreign country (Described in 4b as ‘GM’)Part VI, Line 2 disclosure of family members in board, executive and key roles735 employees is huge for a nonprofitOther opaque elements that I won’t bore you with.The information you want is always top-lined in Part VII of the form (see screenshot below, CEO since 2016 Michael S. Linnington in red box) on page 7: Compensation of Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, Highest Compensated Employees, and Independent ContractorsThe first column is number of hours worked in average week at WWP (50 hours/week).The ‘X’ indicates he is an officer of the org.The $120,441 is the annual reportable compensation he gets. This is not a real number: the key word is “reportable”.The $0 is reportable comp from ‘related organizations’ filing W-2 or 1099-MISC to the CEO.The $13,805 is “estimated” additional compensation from the org and related orgs. This is also misleading (or used to mislead) quite often.What’s interesting is the Chief Financial Officer (line 13, Eric S. Miller) earns $220k… while at the same time, the ex-CFO (Line 16, Ronald W. Burgess) earned $302k for being ex-CFO. It’s also a red flag that all the officers show 50 hours/week of work: how does the ex-CFO earning $302,000 work 50 hours as an officer when the actual CFO earning $220,000 is also spending 50 hours a week?The same setup is in place for the ex-COO, ex-CEO, former Chief Strategy Officer, former Chief Program Officer, former National Services Director… all earning 6 figures, working 50 hour weeks to do… what?It’s also extremely heavy with VPs and front-loaded officer-level positions earning $200k-$300k a year as…VP of Economic Empowerment?VP of Engagement and Physical Health?Which is different from VP of Independence and Mental Health?Check out Section B. Independent Contractors (page 8). They paid three outside ‘direct response’ firms soliciting donation requests… paying fees to the three of more than $31 million in 2017.Key takeaway: Very interesting is that they have $347 million in investments and holdings. They collected $226 million in donations in 2017, but they spent $231 million on operating expenses.BOTTOM LINE: Read the ProPublica investigation, but please check out the Military Money Matters investigation:Wounded Warrior Project Tax Returns Analyzed — an accountant takes apart their finances and makes a strong argument that the A+ ratings given to it are completely unearned.

In 2016, he received $815,000 “Reportable compensation” & the “Estimated amount of other compensation” was $39,382In 2017, he received $785,000 “Reportable compensation” & the “Estimated amount of other compensation” was $41,869You can use Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica to find the amount for any year by clicking the ‘form 990’ button next to the year & selecting plain ‘form 990′. This will take you to the form 900 which has the salaries in section VII. To open the document in a separate tab to make it easier to read, click the little square with an arrow coming out of it.