- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
Nonprofits can pay for goods and services. What is prohibited is "inurement," which is the income or assets "unreasonably" benefiting "any of its board members, trustees, officers, or key employees," as Guidestar puts it. An example of this would be Trans Lifeline, where Kjel and Pajeet treated the nonprofit's funds as a personal piggy bank, routinely spending them on themselves, or giving themselves "loans" then not paying them back.
This is often a matter of pure formality, though. Had they simply paid themselves inflated salaries and done the same thing, instead of just directly looting the coffers, they probably would have gotten away with it. While inflated salaries could constitute "unreasonable" benefits, in practice, they rarely do.
I seriously doubt they're going to pay their retarded volunteers even fair market value for what they're doing, much less enough to be inurement. They're already gypping them with shitty freezer burgers and hummus, about the cheapest thing imaginable. Not that I don't like hummus, but I have been at too many events where the "free food" turns out to be hummus and pita chips or some shit not to recognize this kind of bullshit when I see it.
