Here’s an organization whose operation cannot be justified – the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, or IFCJ.com. I know you’ve seen their commercials running on Fox network. “Won’t you help these holocaust survivors… all she needs is food…” and on and on. Turns out that this organization brings in $113 million per year, mostly from well-meaning Christians, who just can’t stand to see anyone starving to death over national television.

Something told me something wasn’t right with all this. First of all, how much do television commercials cost for production and network time? A two-minute network advertisement targeting a large metropolitan area can cost at minimum $50,000, even upwards of $300,000+, not including the cost of production. Now, logic tells you when you’re watching ads of supposedly starving people that if they are indeed starving to death as they suggest, why not take food to them with their own money? Why are they spending this amount of time and money running costly ad campaigns over and over? Well, the answer lies in the fact that the Jewish founder of the organization, Rabbi Yeckiel Eckstein, takes a $1.2 million dollar salary each year, then pays both his daughters $250,000 per year for their participation.

Wait, I thought this was a charity organization. Well, it’s in that class of charity known as “for profit” charities, remember how the Hillary and Bill Clinton were running one of these? LMAO! Common sense should prevail when you see one of these ads. If you were in front of someone truly starving to death would you not go and get them some food and help them to eat right away? Or would you have a TV production crew standing around filming, getting camera angles and settings just right, and then making film takes over and over while someone is starving to death? Then after filming and capturing all that the director wants, you leave them to continue to suffer and die?

I’m sorry to have to tell you that if you’ve given to this organization you’ve been a victim of a scam. Please always visit charitynavigator.org before you give to any charity of this size. That’s what charity navigator is out there for, they dig into the weeds and monitor and validate large charitable organizations within the practice of giving. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews fails this test over and over. Really any organization, and there are many well-known American charities, where at least 90% of the donations fail to get to the intended recipients are not running a cost effective enterprise and do not deserve your donation dollars. In other words, not enough of your donation(s) are getting to the intended recipient(s). I really want to see more than 90% of each donated dollar going to recipients, not salaries and private jets, etc.; so no more than 10% of donations going to running operations. So many charities do not meet this test. For example, organizations that employ celebrities to solicit your donations are often this kind of scam, many are nothing but for-profit enterprises disguised as charities, the oldest trick in the book. If you look into the books of IFCJ you will find that at least 40% of donated dollars are used to cover their expensive overhead costs. Wow!

https://ministrywatch.com/outrageously-high-fundraising-and-compensation-costs-what-you-need-know-about-those-emotional-tv-commercials-asking-you-to-help-impoverished-jews/