Komen had $75.2 million dollars in administrative and direct fundrasing expenses last year...

[Earth_First]

In addition to $29.7 million in Race for the Cure 3-day event and $18.1 million in 'other' fundraising expenditures.

http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/AboutUs/Financial/2011%20Komen%20Financial%20Statements%20FINAL(3).pdf

Who know how many millions spent in litigation against other non-profits for using the word "cure" and the color pink...

Komen is doing some good, but it's administrative and fundraising expenses are astronomical in scope.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Excellent find.

I remember when the Red Cross got into trouble for the same thing, very few of its dollars were going to actual needy recipients.

[appleannie1]

13. Which is why I donate directly to whoever instead of to RC to divvy up.

[elleng]

2. Not good.

They're having their heads handed to them now; hope they can recover their original goodness.

[Lightning_McQueen]

3. That's why zero dollars from our family goes to Komen

Not going to Nancy Brinker's pocket or Karen Handel's pocket.

The dollars goes to PP and other local breast cancer foundation - including the Denver's SGK who broke away from the national foundation and continues to fund local PP's here in Denver (which is the right move, btw)

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Thank you for this.

Bookmarking.

[mainer]

5. They came to do good and did well.

Sad how it became all about profit.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. in my math world that's $123 Million, or just slightly more than Colbert's Super Pac.

Quite the profitable little gig those GOPer family value folks have collected, eh?

[Earth_First]

7. Yeah, I wasn't sure how to break it down...

There was a line item for the OP title on their Year End Report, and then a separate line for Race for the Cure, and another for 'Other'

[appleannie1]

8. They removed that link.

The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

[Earth_First]

9. Try it from here:

http://ww5.komen.org/AboutUs/FinancialInformation.html

[Rex]

10. Scrub scrub scrub.

They cannot hide on the Internets. They have cash, we have cache.

[appleannie1]

12. ty

[slay]

11. Wow they spend wayyyy too much of their donations on their admins and so called "fundraising"

fundraising for what - first class plane tickets for the admins?

if Komen hadn't tried to make this about politics, they could have kept their nice little scheme going as usual - but now they are being exposed - serves um right for deciding to try and control women, instead of helping them.

[JPZenger]

14. Many non-profits play games with educational expenses

Many non-profits stick an "educational" brochure in a fundraising letter, and thereby are able to count that cost as educational instead of fundraising.

[gopiscrap]

15. Sounds to me like they lost their mission!