Blogger Justin McLachlan has done some digging into the finances of the notoriously homophobic organization and writes:

California Family Council spends most of the public's contributions on employees, not programs. The money was supposed to go to support the California Family Council's charitable mission, instead, most of it went into the pockets of the organization's employees.

Since 2003, the public has given the Riverside, Calif.- based California Family Council (CFC) nearly $3 million to support charitable work that the organizations says "protects and fosters judeo-Christian principles in California's laws."

But, according to its federal tax returns, little more than $500,000 of that money has gone to "program services," or expenses directly related to that "charitable" work.

In contrast, the CFC's top two employees, including its founder and executive director, Ron Prentice, were paid a total of $1.1 million over four years.

The CFC's other employees earned a total of $900,000 in compensation -- bringing the total spent on employees at the Council to about $2 million since it began in 2003.

Last update: 01-29-2009 17:27