Here’s the moral dilemma … you’re a charity and a really bad guy — aka Donald Sterling — has given you a TON of money … Do you now give it back?
We canvassed some of the recipients of Sterling’s generosity … and some feel it’s dirty money … while others say a buck’s a buck.
—Β A Place Called Home — which shelters high-risk teens — got a $100,000 donation from Sterling, doled out in $10K yearly installments.Β The charity has received $30K, which it will NOT return, but it is REJECTING the $70K balance.
— Temple of the Arts — It’s keeping Sterling’s $10K donation.
— L.A. Union Rescue Mission — It’s been receiving $10K a year.Β They’re keeping the cash, telling TMZ, “We take money from all kinds of bad people all the time.”
— Goodwill of So. Cal. — It got a $100,000 donation from Sterling, doled out over 10 years.Β It has received $20K so far and it’s giving all the money back and not accepting the balance.
— American Diabetes Ass’n — Sterling donated $25K.Β It’s keeping the loot, telling us, “The sad reality is that without donations like Mr. Sterling’s, we can’t help the people that we do.”
As we previously reported … Sterling pledged $3 MIL to UCLA for kidney research with $425K up front.Β The school is returning the $425K and refusing to accept the rest.
And L.A.’s Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance is keeping the $30K it already received, telling us they already spent the money.
