Professor and associate dean for academic affairs, Linda Sugin was quoted in an article for the New York Post, discussing the British charities that spent the majority of their raised money on administrative costs and salaries, rather than the beneficiaries of the charities.
While the stateside branches of charities connected to the British royal family rake in millions every year from Americans enamored with the House of Windsor, they spend heavily on administration and travel and sometimes skimp on the cause, according to a Post review of their federal tax returns.
A Chicago-based charity linked to Queen Elizabeth’s 98-year-old husband, Prince Philip, and specifically set up to help young people in the US, raised more than $600,000 in 2017, but delivered only $45,898 — a little more than 7 percent — to those kids.
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“Travel of celebrities and royals should never be part of a charitable purpose,” said Linda Sugin, an associate dean at Fordham Law School and an expert on non-profits. “I don’t think it’s just a problem of transparency but there seems to me that a lot of private benefit happens with these charities. You can’t use a charity to feed your celebrity.”
