Non-Profit is Big Business

$95,129.00
$71,749.00
$75,000.00
$235,780.00
$81,113.00


These are the 2010 reported incomes of the directors of the 5 most popular non-profit/charities located in Tulsa.  They are all supported with a combination of Federal, State and Private dollars.  They all say they serve the most vulnerable and impoverished families of our community.  They serve the hungry and the homeless.  They serve the physically sick and mentally ill.  They provide turkeys at Christmas and spend a lot of their time fundraising and grant writing.

Fundraising. The mouse wheel that began to run on when we first discovered that charity could be a job.   Social workers, receptionists and janitors were hired and CEO's were appointed.  Overhead was developed and attention slowly moved away from the window.  Now the charities have salaried employees that they are responsible for.  The survival of the mission is critical, not simply to care for those on the street but to assure the continued employment of those inside the buildings.

So in order to ration the funds, charities are forced to limit the services they provide.  Now intakes and qualifications are required and those waiting in line are no longer brothers and sisters in Christ, they are clients.  Your family can receive assistance once a month or twice a year but when this generosity is not sufficient to ease your family's pain you are blamed. Then families are forced to "charity-chase" from one agency to the next and charities can scowl at them for behaving like this. 

Non-biblical references are quoted like "God helps those who help themselves" to justify the charities behavior and paychecks.  Charities give our community permission to ignore their neighbor or refer them to an agency.  The complacent faithful allow Charities rob us, every single day, of the opportunity to personally serve the living Christ.

Charities don't trust in God to provide, they trust in our government to grant and bestow.