You're more likely to have heard of it if you ever listen to broadcast radio, as that's where their ads (with the earworm-y jingle that they're most infamous for) usually air.
Kars4Kids operates nationwide and is infamous for their earworm radio jingle that plays across the country, though their advertising intensity varies by region.
You might be interested in making a donation to “The Human Fund” - their slogan is “Money for people”. Kruger Industrial Smoothing are a major donor. Ask about the Festivus special.
I've seen ads on the West Coast for Kars4Kids. To be precise, in the Bay Area. I was wondering who donates a car for a kid. They shouldn't driving ... well, till I read more about it. Quite the surprise to stumble over on HN.
> In Oregon, the attorney general added that Kars4Kids failed to disclose that its offer of a "free vacation" for vehicle donors was designed to recruit people to attend timeshare presentations.
Reading that whole page leaves me wondering if this, and possibly how many other charities are really just mechanisms for business/wealth/power development.
You should mostly assume that they are, in general, vehicles for the empowered to direct toward goals of their choosing (e.g. reputation/legitimacy-building), and that those goals occasionally have externalities for anyone else as an accident at best.
Oorah also owns a ton of property in upstate New York. Specifically, a couple summer camps for kids and tons of houses in the surrounding community. So that’s what their “charity” spends money on.
Also interesting to note that their “boys camp” looks like it gets the lions share of the cash. It looks like a theme park with go karts and camels and water slides next to a lake. The “girls camp” is just a horse farm a few miles down the road.
Religious organizations are allowed to manage billion dollar tax exempt funds with management fees of 100% and nearly constituonal cover for false and misleading statements. Meanwhile, university endowments would be taxed at the same rate as for profit companies if the reconciliation bill passes.
Due to the significance of tax drag for short term capital gains, we might see a world where most high frequency or quant trading is done by the Mormon Church (today posessing assets about double what Bridgewater has under management).
That's true but it sucks, it's just a massive scam masquerading as religion. If there's any legislation to tax the bejesus (pun intended) out of any and all religious groups I'm all for it. It'll pay for all those future wars said groups are always fond of advocating for.
>I couldn’t help myself from looking more into the Jewish organization that had an anthropomorphic five dollar bill mascot. After additional inquiry, I learned that this wasn’t the result of a Der Stürmer writer brought to New Jersey during Operation Paperclip, it was connected to an actual organization.
Kars4kids sounds like a mini version of U.S. foreign policy except that instead of cars we are giving 6+ wars which have bankrupted the country and killed so many people.
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(Charity Navigator, GuideStar, and ProPublica’s non profit database are all useful to drilling down your suss out legitimacy)
Also interesting to note that their “boys camp” looks like it gets the lions share of the cash. It looks like a theme park with go karts and camels and water slides next to a lake. The “girls camp” is just a horse farm a few miles down the road.
Due to the significance of tax drag for short term capital gains, we might see a world where most high frequency or quant trading is done by the Mormon Church (today posessing assets about double what Bridgewater has under management).
Hilarious