Here's a link to some financial info from their "non-profit." All denominations are in USD $.Shane claims that his LAMN work is his regular full time day job. 40 hours a week. Take a look at the attached screenshot from his blog. He describes helping 30 people (but can only picture 9 of them) in TWO YEARS. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on having helped 30. Thats 15 recipients a year so a little more than one a month. If it really takes him 40 hours a week year round and only 15 people a year are receiving help, then he is the most ineffective non profit executive of all time. Plus don’t forget that his cousin also runs this sham so she’s supposedly clocking hours, too. Two of these adorable sweet kids are holding iPads. One is holding it up so I can only guess that LAMN provided it. If so, I’d hardly call that sweat inducing “work” on his part. Mass emailing gobs of donors, collecting many tens of thousands of dollars and buying someone a $500 iPad, wheelchair ramp or $25 dollar floatie while you pay yourself and your family member a 70k-80k salary is sickening. We’ve seen the financials. They’re in these threads. What I haven’t until now is his admission about how many.. I mean how few.. have been helped.
Squirmy & Grubs #6 Hannah’s vain, Shane’s a pain, their biggest fan is Jamaican Rain
He looks ill. Like seriously unwell, not just a bit under the weather. Run down and exhausted type ill.
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Specifically, their Form 990s show the following numbers of people they claim to have helped along with the average amount of $ help per person.
2016 - 17 ($3,655/person)
2017 - 26 ($1,198/person)
2018 - 16 ($4,006 person)
2019 - 30 ($2,208 person)
2020 - 38 ($1,449 person)
You may recall their big fundraising drive last year to give away as many $100 gift cards to anyone with a medical need, not just SMA or other forms of MD, depending on how many people chipped in. It appears they must have raked in an extra $86,900 earmarked for the cards. They made it clear that the number of cards they could afford depended solely upon the generosity of their givers. It was over and above their usual revenue for helping people with SMA or MD. I can almost guarantee you they made money off that deal. Places like Target have special deals for things like this. If you (or your company or non-profit) purchase a certain number of gift cards, they give the purchaser a discount. I'd have to go hunting for it, but I posted some info about this not long ago. Those 869 gift cards probably cost them about 90% (if not less) of face value. If the discount was, say, 10%, they raked in a nice $8,690 profit while still distributing 869 $100 gift cards.
The latest salary numbers for LAMN are from their 2020 Form 990. Shane drew $46,246 and Sarah got $51,613. I have two college degrees in technical fields, and I've never made $51,613 in a year in my life and barely made $46K one time a few years ago working 55+ hours a week. I've not come close to that much since. I'd love to get a job where I could stay home all day and handle the "grueling 98-hour" workweek they claim they do because even as meticulous as I am to detail, I don't think I'd need 98 hours to accomplish what they say it takes them 98 hours to do.
Reminds me of the plaque hanging in my kitchen. "I'm not a slow cook. I'm not a fast cook. But my husband is a half-fast cook." Likewise, I'm not a slow emailer. I'm not a fast emailer. But I can type fast, so I think I can at least claim to be a "half-fast" emailer!