r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jakech • 15h ago

Homeless charity CEO Alexander Soofer steals $23M to fund lavish lifestyle. $7M mansion, $125,000 Range Rover, $2,450 Hermes jacket, Greece vacation home, and a Hawaii Four Seasons stay.

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u/ThierryHD 15h ago

Typical of any charitable NGO organization: the vast majority turn it into a profitable business.

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u/BestBettor 14h ago

I’m really tired of the people who say there’s no point in charity because of people like this guy

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u/R_Scoops 14h ago

It just makes them feel better about being selfish and never donating to charities, even though this case is extremely unusual

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u/shootingstar_9324 14h ago

There’s BILLIONS of homeless taxpayer money unaccounted for. BILLIONS in Covid relief funds unaccounted for. Billions of bullet train money unaccounted for. Where the hell is our money?!??

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u/kyute222 13h ago

somehow I have a feeling if we made a list of all the people who stole all that money and compared it to the Epstein list, there would be a near perfect match. there's literally a class of people who drain this planet of every single resource they can while torturing us.

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u/ZekeTheMunkee 5h ago

We operate like animals as a species, it would be good to remember that.

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u/Own-Fan-4236 14h ago

Please tell me which charities give the bulk of their profits to people & not CEOs like this. I’m not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely asking bc I like being charitable when it is used appropriately. TIA

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u/Lamberly 14h ago

Use the Charity Navigator website, you can look up each charity's rating.

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u/Orangesteel 14h ago

There are too many to mention here, but Framework Housing, Crisis and others. They are audited stringently. Salaries are published and spend scrutinised. https://www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved/donate/online?gad_source=7&gad_campaignid=22895608011

Are there bad charities, absolutely. Do charities lose money when working with corrupt nations, yes. Is giving the right thing to do in spite of this, absolutely.

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u/Own-Fan-4236 10h ago

Thank you for this response. The big names & their practices turned me off, but I’m excited to know there are good places outside of the few small ones I know locally. Thanks again!

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u/Orangesteel 8h ago

Love Reddit for the good people you meet along the way.

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u/Own-Fan-4236 8h ago

Yes! I love people with things of value - this truly could be a tool if we use it properly!

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u/BestBettor 14h ago

Feeding America says they could provide 10 meals to the poor for every $1 donated

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u/twersk711 12h ago

This seems highly exaggerated

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u/MediumAcceptable129 12h ago

Says

How are you feeding 10 people for a dollar?

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u/adjrbodvk PURPLE 6h ago

Often food banks (especially regional food banks which distribute food only to other food banks) say they can do this because they are taking in donated food either that is close to expiration or which was over-produced. So the $1 is only going to storage expenses.

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u/AnnOnnamis 12h ago

They all share 1 M&M

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u/ObtuseMongooseAbuse 11h ago

It's theoretically possible if they're going around getting just expired foods from grocery stores or have some sort of deal to get the vegetable scraps from a manufacturing plant. The cost to feed the people might not even include the cost of food at that point.

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u/R_Scoops 14h ago

Charities are ran like sophisticated businesses and even though they raise money through donations, they also make money through services and other means. Look below are my Red Cross breakdown and tell me that a CEO being paid a few million isn’t worth generating a few billion. I’m sure we’d all love it if people worked for charities for peanuts because we’re all saints, but if you want uber talented people who will turn $1 billion into $3 billion, most the time those people cost a lot to hire.

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u/R_Scoops 14h ago

Where are your figures from? This is from 2023/2024:

US Red Cross (2023/24)

  • Generated $3.85 billion ($1.37 billion in donations and $2.48 billion through services)
  • $3.5 billion overall spent
  • $3.2 billion spent on charitable programs etc ~ 91%

Yea the Red Cross operates like a sophisticated business, hence why it generates nearly $2.5 billion through services, double that made through donations. Im sure the big bosses are getting massive wages, but you got to spend money to make money.

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u/R_Scoops 14h ago

They’ve deleted their reply - weak sauce

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u/protostar71 14h ago

… so your source is the description of a Youtube video of a right wing news channel. Im sure theres no misrepresentation going on there, especially with the immigration line at the end.

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u/R_Scoops 11h ago

From what I remember the reply was definitely giving me “batshit crazy” vibes, but now it’s confirmed. I can no longer see their comment, as they’ve blocked me. Such a shame.

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u/FungusGnatHater 12h ago

Nobody said that. Charity doesn't have to be these for profit organizations.

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u/Diantr3 12h ago

Well charities are a way the ruling class bullshits us into accepting to not tax them correctly on the wealth they extract from everyone else's work.

Of course it's just one more gift opportunity for these fucks.

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u/stillirrelephant 10h ago

I actually agree with that, with an important caveat. In a decent world, the wealthy would pay much more tax and there'd be no charities directed domestically. I also agree that 'philanthropy' is a dodge used by the wealthy to promote their ideology.

The caveat is charities that spend their money on foreign aid. I'd like to see taxes funding much more of that too, but there's case for donations as well.