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I apologize if this was already covered in this thread at some point, I have forgotten if so. And the original thread on AFF is in spergatory so this seems like the place to put it. So I was watching Kino Casino and they mentioned the America First Foundation, and what they spend their money on. Prompted me to see if I could get the tax forms, and the entire history of 990 forms is available on ProPublica. Now I am not a tax person, and I don't understand these forms very well, but I took some screenshots of the last two years worth of forms. I also attached the PDFs of the forms in case people want to go over them and see what else is in there. The short version is:
Feel free to peruse ProPublica or the PDFs for info that I missed or didn't understand. None of this should be that hard to find later since AFF is a 501(c)4 org so the tax info should always be public.
- Each fiscal year, the total amount of money spent to further the goals of AFF was around $6,000 and $2,000, respectively.
- The fiscal year for the organization starts/ends in June/July, so some of the interesting events (like the big fundraiser they did EOY 2023) aren't indicated on the forms.
- For the years that I looked at (2021-2023), AFF only employed 3 people, none of which were compensated financially. Nick is listed as the President and CEO, and Michelle Malkin is listed as 'Director'. However, the treasurer changes year to year, from Vincent James to Jon Miller.
- 100 volunteers are listed for each fiscal year.
- Presumably home addresses and phone numbers for Nick Fuentes and the Treasurer are shown on the forms. I don't know if that is their actual addresses so I didn't write it down here but people can look at them and post them as dox if they are accurate I can't be bothered to verify that.
- Each fundraising event seems to lose money for them, with the only actual positive cash flow coming from 'all other contributions' not listed as a fundraising event. So I have no clue what that indicates.
Gross receipts of the organization for the year. Quite a lot of money, almost a quarter million dollars. This is dramatically lower the following year (around $60k).
This is the mission statement of AFF, and the number of employees and volunteers. Where they are getting 100 volunteers (no doubt the interns that Nick references) I have no clue.
I don't know how to read this exactly, but I am assuming this is the expenses they spent on trying to fulfil the mission statement. This means that out of Gross Receipts of $438,992 for the year, they only spent $6,338 on the mission statement. Less 2%, which seems very low. But again I have no knowledge of PACs or charitable organizations.
Employee compensation. The 3 officers are paid nothing, even though Vince and Nick supposedly worked 10 hours a week for the organization. Again, seems weird, but there is a checkbox for no one being paid so maybe it isn't that unusual for smaller orgs.
This is very strange to me. The event they are talking about here is presumably AFPAC 3, and they are showing they got $231k from donations for that event, while they spent $239k for the event. So they lost money on their event. The only reason they had any positive cash flow this year is due to 'other contributions' in excess of $200k. I also showed some of the other expenses for the year, total assets at EOY (Part XI line 10) is $193,996. So they were positive $200k for the year.
This is the exact expenses for the event. This event was at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Not sure how much it would be to rent that large conference room for the night but it seems very expensive.
Fundraising events notably don't include internet solicitations. I would think donations on their online platform would be through the internet so I don't know why that isn't shown.
This is the mission statement of AFF, and the number of employees and volunteers. Where they are getting 100 volunteers (no doubt the interns that Nick references) I have no clue.
I don't know how to read this exactly, but I am assuming this is the expenses they spent on trying to fulfil the mission statement. This means that out of Gross Receipts of $438,992 for the year, they only spent $6,338 on the mission statement. Less 2%, which seems very low. But again I have no knowledge of PACs or charitable organizations.
Employee compensation. The 3 officers are paid nothing, even though Vince and Nick supposedly worked 10 hours a week for the organization. Again, seems weird, but there is a checkbox for no one being paid so maybe it isn't that unusual for smaller orgs.
This is very strange to me. The event they are talking about here is presumably AFPAC 3, and they are showing they got $231k from donations for that event, while they spent $239k for the event. So they lost money on their event. The only reason they had any positive cash flow this year is due to 'other contributions' in excess of $200k. I also showed some of the other expenses for the year, total assets at EOY (Part XI line 10) is $193,996. So they were positive $200k for the year.
This is the exact expenses for the event. This event was at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Not sure how much it would be to rent that large conference room for the night but it seems very expensive.
Fundraising events notably don't include internet solicitations. I would think donations on their online platform would be through the internet so I don't know why that isn't shown.
Expenses for mission statement this year. Note there wasn't an AFPAC this year, the only events would be Fuentes Conferences. They spend even less this year.
Statement of revenues for this year. They had basically no income this year compared to last year, other than the Fuentes Rally lost money as well. Note they are cash negative this year, losing around $20k. The biggest thing for me here is that they list merchandise sales, but there are no merchandise sales shown on the previous years tax forms. I know they sold merchandise at the other AFPACs, so I don't understand this oversight.
Statement of revenues for this year. They had basically no income this year compared to last year, other than the Fuentes Rally lost money as well. Note they are cash negative this year, losing around $20k. The biggest thing for me here is that they list merchandise sales, but there are no merchandise sales shown on the previous years tax forms. I know they sold merchandise at the other AFPACs, so I don't understand this oversight.
Feel free to peruse ProPublica or the PDFs for info that I missed or didn't understand. None of this should be that hard to find later since AFF is a 501(c)4 org so the tax info should always be public.
