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$54.7 million to solicitors. $5.4 million directly to those in need. For the past ten years, the Firefighters Charitable Foundation has paid most of its donations out to professional fundraisers, handing out an estimated $55 million out of the $64 earned between 2002 and 2011.
Louis Pelico founded the charity and also abandoned it after finding himself “unable” to reduce fundraising costs and feeling deeply disturbed over that seemingly insurmountable obstacle. FCF continues to dole out egregious amounts to solicitors, paying a whopping 90 cents of every dollar raised to its for-profit solicitors.
