I pray your daughters never trade their influence over how American tax payers money is spent for contributions to their personal slush fund charities........
...the [Trump] foundation’s relatively small footprint led the
Washington Post’s Fahrenthold to look elsewhere for evidence of Trump’s personal giving. After relentlessly calling charities with some affiliation to Trump, he ran into many “no comment” responses but found only
one example of a cash gift (less than $10,000) during the period from 2008 to the launch of his campaign. Instead, much of Trump’s charity has come from his companies in the form of free rounds of golf or other in-kind gifts such as, most notably, conservation easements.
Unlike most private foundations, the funding of Trump’s own charity doesn’t actually come from the candidate himself – at least not in recent years.
Over the last decade, the Trump Foundation
has largely relied on donations from others to support its giving. In fact, since 2008,
no money flowing into the foundation came from the candidate himself...
As Fahrenthold’s investigations have discovered, Trump’s grants risk being viewed as serving improper political or personal ends. For example, the foundation
made a prohibited payment to a political group affiliated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Around the same time, Bondi’s office declined to pursue an investigation into Trump University,
raising allegations of a connection.
The foundation defended the payment as a mistake, and Trump personally reimbursed the funds and
paid a $2,500 tax to the IRS for violating the prohibition on political expenditures. It is
not clear that the foundation has done all things necessary to correct this transaction.
The foundation flirted with political campaign violations again this year when it
made payments to veterans charities at Donald Trump for President political rallies. It allowed the campaign to present large foundation checks emblazoned with the political campaign motto “Make America Great Again.” Since political activity by charities
is prohibited, the foundation put its exempt status with the IRS at substantial risk.
A second source of spending controversies surrounds the issue of
self-dealing. Private foundations are prohibited from engaging in activities that are for the benefit of their founder or other “disqualified persons,” such as directors and officers.
The most public of these are the instances in which the foundation purchased items at charity auctions, such as
an autographed Tim Tebow football helmet and
two separate paintings of Trump himself (one of which is on display in a Trump-owned resort). The acquisition of the paintings is not per se problematic, but using the paintings in Trump private businesses is. Perhaps even more concerning is that the foundation
made payments of over $250,000 to charities in order to settle private lawsuits of Trump businesses.
https://newrepublic.com/article/137522/trumps-charity-tells-us-lot-business