Brett Favre’s charity, which was created to support “disadvantaged and disabled children and breast cancer patients,” donated more than $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation from 2018 to 2020, tax records show.
Favre 4 Hope, which receives public donations, reportedly gave the USM Athletic Foundation $60,000 in 2018, when the charity’s other beneficiaries received $10,000 each. The USM Athletic Foundation received $46,817 in 2019, with the Special Olympics of Mississippi receiving $11,000, the next-highest donation. In 2020, The USM Athletic Foundation received $26,175 from Favre 4 Hope, and no other organization was given more than $10,000.
The documents don’t show whether conditions were placed on the USM Athletic Foundation or Oak Grove Booster Club, but experts questioned whether the money aligned with Favre 4 Hope’s stated mission.“There’s the letter of the law, there’s the spirit of the law, and it’s something where it would probably be tough to make a legal case but it still doesn’t look good,” Rick Cohen, chief operating officer of the National Council of Nonprofits, told the Athletic.
that resulted in $5 million in welfare money going toward the construction of the volleyball facility.filed by the state of Mississippi but hasn’t been charged criminally. He has denied any wrongdoing and returned $1.1 million to the state, which says he owes $228,000 in interest on the money.
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