The SPLC s Outright Telemarketing Scam PUBLISHED BY MICHAEL OLANICH ON MARCH 31ST 2015 telemarketing2014 ONE MONTH ago we gave the Southern Poverty Law Center the benefit of the doubt concerning their dubious telemarketing practices Today with the release of their 2014 IRS Form 990 tax report we can not cover for their outright telemarketing scam any longer On the right is the SPLC s IRS Form 990 for the fiscal year ending October 31 2014 For the fourth consecutive year SPLC Founder Morris Dees who bills himself as a sound steward of the donors money has deliberately scammed tens of thousands of well meaning donors through his network of paid telemarketing rip off artists To wit for the past four years Mr Dees has continued his relationship with Grassroots Campaigns of Boston Mass despite the horrific hemorrhaging of donor dollars Grassroots has cost the SPLC hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars each year for their fundraising efforts 2011 212 214 2012 869 686 2013 1 156 765 2014 1 130 680 How in the world can Mr Dees continue to deal with a company that has blatantly siphoned 3 369 345 donor dollars out of his coffers over the past four years These horrendous figures more than wipe out every dollar raised by his other telemarketing cronies not that that amounted to all that much Checking out Telefund Inc of Denver we see that they raised 561 102 in the name of the SPLC in 2014 and only pocketed 422 292 in fees leaving the SPLC 138 811 or a whopping 25 of the donation money Did anyone tell the donors that Telefund was pocketing three quarters of their donor dollars But that s all chump change compared to the experts at Harris Marketing group who raised 213 694 in the name of the SPLC and fighting hate and only pocketed 192 928 or a mere 90 of the money donated over the phone And yet Morris Dees could not be happier with the results because Grassroots Telefund and Harris all sold their information to him For mere pennies on the dollar Mr Dees buys solid donor leads that he can feed into his own uber efficient in house fundraising machine at 100 profit down the road Best of all it was the stupid donors who unwittingly paid to have their information sold to Mr Dees You really can not beat that for stewardship Dees will lose money on the deal this year but it s nothing compared to the tens of millions he stands to gain from these donors over the coming decades But think about it In 2014 Mo Dees paid 2 537 027 to third party telemarketers to raise 1 979 272 in donor dollars meaning that the telemarketers kept every last dime they solicited over the phone in the name of the SPLC as well as an additional 557 755 out of the SPLC s existing donor till THIS is sound stewardship At 100 dollars apiece only 25 370 of the 2014 donors got screwed out of their donations A mere pittance At 50 dollars a pop the number jumps to more than 50 000 suckers and yet Mo Dees calls this sound stewardship Justify it anyway you want but at least 25 000 well meaning donors got screwed out of their money just as they have for the past four years It s time that the media and the IRS investigates the criminal scamming of the Southern Poverty Law Center This is nothing less than blatant fraud Selling the suckers one thing and giving them something far less Source Watching the Watchdogs SHARE VIA EMAIL OR SOCIAL MEDIA Email this to someoneShare on FacebookTweet about this on TwitterShare on Google Share on TumblrShare on VKShare on RedditPrint this page Related Articles New Study SPLC is a Fraud Who s a White Supremacist The SPLC A Deadly Double Standard SPLC The Quotable Mr Potok SPLC Insinuates Itself into Department of Homeland Security REPORTS MORRIS DEES SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER SPLC