Limbaugh claiming the Clinton Foundation spent 85% of donations on overhead, here's the facts.

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"Eighty-five percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."

— Rush Limbaugh on Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 in a monologue on his radio show

Much of the discussion about the Clinton family foundation has focused on who donated to it and what they may have expected in return from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But critics of the Clintons have opened up another line of attack on what is formally known as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, charging that it doesn’t actually spend very much on charitable works.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh aired this line of argument on April 23, 2015, citing a report in the Federalist, a conservative publication. Here’s a portion of what Limbaugh said:

"The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation -- 99 percent pass-through. The Clinton Family Foundation pass-through is 15 percent. The Federalist reports only 15 percent of the money donated to the Clinton Family Foundation went to actual charitable causes. The bulk of the money donated to the Clinton Family Foundation went to travel, salaries, and benefits. Sixty percent of all the money raised went to other expenses. In other words, folks, 85 percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."

As this claim was circulating, the Clinton Foundation pushed back. The foundation tweeted, "More than 88% of our expenditures go directly to our life-changing work."

The difference between 15 percent and 88 percent is wide, so we decided to check Limbaugh’s claim. A representative with Limbaugh’s radio network didn’t answer an email inquiry.

An unusual approach for a foundation

When most people in the charitable world think of foundations, they think of organizations that give away a lot of money in the form of grants to others who go out and do good works. The Clinton foundation works differently -- it keeps its money in house and hires staff to carry out its own humanitarian programs.

This set-up means the Clinton foundation’s finances get complicated in ways other foundations do not.

Partly because of that, one of the leading independent groups that track charities -- Charity Navigator -- has been flummoxed about how to analyze that foundation and has stopped rating it, at least for now.

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http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/29/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-says-clinton-foundation-spends-just-/

[Romeo.lima333]

1. fact one and the only one that really matters is limbo's a liar nothing he says is truth

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2. Florida man wrong way down I-75 exit ramp, collides with horse trailer

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-lk-wrong-way-crash-interstate-75-20150518-story.html

[madinmaryland]

5. Dammit. Florida Man hijacks a DU thread!!

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6. The GOP should rebrand as Florida Man's Party

[madinmaryland]

7. Dammit! Now you owe me a new keyboard!!

[jwirr]

3. If I listened to anything limpy said I still would not believe it.

[Initech]

4. Add "accounting for nonprofit organizations" to the list of things that Limbaugh knows nothing about

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Every charity that directs all of it's funding to other charities is a useless middleman.

My preference is to give charity to organizations who will use it on program activities, not marketing, administration or pass-through.

The Clinton foundation does relatively well in this regard.

[KamaAina]

9. OxyMoron better watch it. Some of his buddies contribute to the Clinton Foundation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11076031