Shaun King has been a prolific founder of charities that have financial irregularities. He founded a fund for Tamir Rice, the 12 year old child that was killed in Cleveland, Ohio.
No one knows what the final money count was but Re-Newsit, an online news site contacted the Rice family lawyer and they were told that King was not authorized to raise money in the name of Tamir Rice and that King has never given them any money.
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Another charity that King founded is reported to have raised $540,000, However, Janeil Owen, who was to receive the funds reported that they only got $200,000 from Shaun Kings charity, ahomeinhaiti.
1. @sovelaviorg @durandis @shaunking Saw all the tweets today and wanted to be clear… @NWHCM received exactly 200k from ahomeinhaiti.
Shaun King’s JTA was not listed as an IRS non-profit. I was suspicious when he requested recurring donations.
From the Daily Caller:
A subscription-based service, Upfront offers platforms for celebrities and other influencers to connect directly with their most loyal fans. And as is common for companies that partner with celebrities, Upfront advertised itself as a socially-responsible corporation that would donate some of its revenue to its own nonprofit foundation, Upfront Foundation.
“It’s very much a social engagement platform in that sense, but a percentage of every transaction that we have, which we’re really proud of, will go to a new foundation that we’ve started called the Upfront Foundation,” King told the Christian Post in April 2013.
“It was important to us to incorporate a significant way to give back so a percentage of every transaction completed on Upfront will go to the newly formed Upfront Foundation to support the causes that matter most to our influencers, fans, and staff,” he said in a press release published the next month.
But there’s one glaring problem with King’s claim: the Upfront Foundation was never created.
None of this proves that King embezzled so much as a dime, but someone should look into these questionable charities.
