Following the wildfires that ravaged the Los Angeles area earlier this year, Democrats and a bunch of celebrities did a fundraising event called ‘FireAid’ that brought in a ton of cash, some reports say it was almost $100 million. Yet none of the victims have seen a penny of if it.
Independent investigative journalist Sue Pascoe began looking into this and found that all of the money was apparently distributed to non-profit groups in the area, some of which have absolutely nothing to do with fire recovery.
Is there a more perfect example of liberalism than this? Rather than giving the funds directly to the people who need it most, the people behind this event gave it to charities, with little to no vetting, just trusting that the money would then somehow make it to the victims.
From Yahoo News:
FireAid, a celebrity-packed concert held in January, raised an impressive $100 million for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.
But now, six months later, residents affected by the fires are asking where exactly that money has gone.
“This ‘benefit concert’ might be one of the biggest scams in disaster fundraising history,” said independent journalist James Li on X.
Thanks to Li and Sue Pascoe, an investigative journalist for Circling The News, we now know that FireAid funds have not gone directly to residents, but instead to nonprofits selected by a charity based on the other side of the country…
As Pascoe reports, The Annenberg Foundation was tasked with managing the FireAid funds. Pascoe emailed the organization asking, “How much of the funds were spent specifically for the Palisades and which nonprofits in that community are receiving money?” But Pascoe didn’t get a reply, and no one answered when she called several of the company’s extensions.
Pascoe was finally able to connect with someone at The Annenberg Foundation and while she initially got the runaround, she was directed to Chris Wallace, the foundation’s chief communications officer.
However, when Pascoe spoke with Wallace, she was shocked to learn that the FireAid proceeds would not go to residents affected by the devastating fires. Instead, the money would be distributed to several nonprofits affiliated with the Annenberg Foundation.
Watch the video report below:
Democrats and celebrities raised $50m for the victims of the Los Angeles fires. But where did that money actually go? Not to the victims but rather nonprofits and into the pockets of high-salary executives and staff teams. pic.twitter.com/JVr8NvBqrq
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2025
Every aspect of this disaster has been mismanaged from the moment the fires started and there was no water in the fire hydrants. How Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass still have their jobs is truly a mystery.
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