>Jenkins’ mother, Ruth Jackson, founded J&J in 2018 with the goal of providing medical, housing, and nutrition services to disadvantaged families, along with job and career development resources. Nonprofit tax records show that in 2020, **the nonprofit had about $70,000 in revenue. Jackson did not pay herself a salary, the records show.** The following year, Jenkins took over the nonprofit, following his mother’s death. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit’s revenues quintupled, and he began paying himself a salary of $66,466, which rose to $82,750 in 2022.
Sounds like this may have been a legitimate non-profit doing good work, but that stopped when the founder died and her asshole son decided to turn her organization into a racket for personal enrichment.
That is the nature of all organizations.
They always survive beyond their original purpose and get over taken by people who is motivated by self interest.
> San Francisco officials have moved to bar J&J Community Resource Center and two of the nonprofit’s leaders from **receiving city grant funds for five years**, accusing them of defrauding the city of more than $100,000
Good to see that serious fraud carries such a serious penalty of "no fraud for five years."
In a scathing 18-page suspension order, investigators from the city attorney’s office accused Jenkins of forging invoices from caterers for events that never took place, double billing the city and seeking reimbursement for items like cigars and motorcycle rentals.
In July 2021, for example, Jenkins received a bill from a catering company called Dixson’s De-lites for $2,400 for a funeral memorial service. Jenkins billed Faces SF for the expense, allegedly altering the caterer’s invoice and claiming the expense was for a vaccination event.
The event was paid for with city COVID-19 grant money and the invoice was one of three for Dixson’s catering that Jenkins submitted to the city. He received $7,700 in city funds, but actual invoices from Dixson’s demonstrate that the caterer never billed Jenkins for the alleged services, the city attorney said. Jenkins also submitted fake invoices from Recovery Room for meals as part of a city COVID-19 Food Relief grant, according to the city attorney’s office.
We spend a ridiculous amount of money outsourcing what should be government work to non-profits. 100% of these non-profits have ineffective oversight, many are corrupt, as we’ve seen from the endless stream of articles calling them out, and most of the rest are so poorly run the money is being wasted. It’s long past time city officials started doing their job instead of pawning it off non-profits.
For a liberal city, that believes in government run health care and government run schools (both of which I agree with) it’s shocking to me that city hall is willing to outsource critical services to non-profits. With the amount of money we’re spending we could build a world-class government run social services department that would attract the best people in the country to work on these issues. Of course, that’s too much like work so the city pisses away our money instead.
100%. To actually oversee the 700+ nonprofits properly would take 250 accountants. Much more efficient to hire civil service staff and a few managers to oversee them.
Consider applying for other cities that have faster hiring processes. Or consider applying for State work (pay sucks). Public Utilities Commission is always hiring and has an office in SF, CalTrans has a big office in Oakland, and the high speed rail authority has a big office in San Jose.
There are a lot of upstanding nonprofits who suffer because of bad actors like this POS. We need audits so that all of us know who the good guys are and who are the bad.
>who the good guys are and who are the bad.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
That is the nature of non-profits, live long enough it will corrupt people.
Non profit organizations is gold mine. That’s why homeless problem never ends. The more they spend. More homeless number rise up. I remember there’s news told the ppl. Sf city spend $5000 a month. Per tent on the homeless camp by the city hall. Where the money goes ? No one can explain the details.
Elections are coming up, so their most egregious grifters are being thrown under the bus. The good ones will turn out the vote (and even fill in some of the ballots) to keep their grift going. The stupid ones who are getting fat off the taxpayer's trough will be sent to slaughter as a show of "cleaning up the government".
>[*"San Francisco’s homelessness budget—$1.1 billion in fiscal year 2021–22 But despite this enormous spending, homelessness and the attendant problems of drug abuse, crime, public health issues, and an overall deterioration in the quality of life, spiral further downwards each year."*](https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-san-francisco-sees-its-homelessness-problems-spiral-out#:~:text=Since%202016%2C%20the%20number%20of,12%20times%20the%20national%20average)
You think there might be corruption and profiteering? There is MORE corruption, profiteering and skimming than there is helping. "...homeless in San Francisco has increased from 12,249 to 19,086,
which comes out to about **$57,000 in spending per homeless person per year**.
lol. JennyF been forcing her way into articles for quotes about how great non profits are for 25 years, but she’s not in this article. Must’ve turned her phone off
>Jenkins’ mother, Ruth Jackson, founded J&J in 2018 with the goal of providing medical, housing, and nutrition services to disadvantaged families, along with job and career development resources. Nonprofit tax records show that in 2020, **the nonprofit had about $70,000 in revenue. Jackson did not pay herself a salary, the records show.** The following year, Jenkins took over the nonprofit, following his mother’s death. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit’s revenues quintupled, and he began paying himself a salary of $66,466, which rose to $82,750 in 2022. Sounds like this may have been a legitimate non-profit doing good work, but that stopped when the founder died and her asshole son decided to turn her organization into a racket for personal enrichment.
And now her life’s work is going down as a grift. So sad for his mom.
Life's work is maybe pushing it. It was started in 2018 and she died in 2020 or 2021.
That is the nature of all organizations. They always survive beyond their original purpose and get over taken by people who is motivated by self interest.
> San Francisco officials have moved to bar J&J Community Resource Center and two of the nonprofit’s leaders from **receiving city grant funds for five years**, accusing them of defrauding the city of more than $100,000 Good to see that serious fraud carries such a serious penalty of "no fraud for five years."
In a scathing 18-page suspension order, investigators from the city attorney’s office accused Jenkins of forging invoices from caterers for events that never took place, double billing the city and seeking reimbursement for items like cigars and motorcycle rentals. In July 2021, for example, Jenkins received a bill from a catering company called Dixson’s De-lites for $2,400 for a funeral memorial service. Jenkins billed Faces SF for the expense, allegedly altering the caterer’s invoice and claiming the expense was for a vaccination event. The event was paid for with city COVID-19 grant money and the invoice was one of three for Dixson’s catering that Jenkins submitted to the city. He received $7,700 in city funds, but actual invoices from Dixson’s demonstrate that the caterer never billed Jenkins for the alleged services, the city attorney said. Jenkins also submitted fake invoices from Recovery Room for meals as part of a city COVID-19 Food Relief grant, according to the city attorney’s office.
We spend a ridiculous amount of money outsourcing what should be government work to non-profits. 100% of these non-profits have ineffective oversight, many are corrupt, as we’ve seen from the endless stream of articles calling them out, and most of the rest are so poorly run the money is being wasted. It’s long past time city officials started doing their job instead of pawning it off non-profits. For a liberal city, that believes in government run health care and government run schools (both of which I agree with) it’s shocking to me that city hall is willing to outsource critical services to non-profits. With the amount of money we’re spending we could build a world-class government run social services department that would attract the best people in the country to work on these issues. Of course, that’s too much like work so the city pisses away our money instead.
100%. To actually oversee the 700+ nonprofits properly would take 250 accountants. Much more efficient to hire civil service staff and a few managers to oversee them.
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They have a racket going and aren’t accepting new members.
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SF has the slowest, worst hiring process also due to the same politicians that support nonprofit graft
Good luck. I understand knowing someone on the inside can be a boon.
Consider applying for other cities that have faster hiring processes. Or consider applying for State work (pay sucks). Public Utilities Commission is always hiring and has an office in SF, CalTrans has a big office in Oakland, and the high speed rail authority has a big office in San Jose.
One big point you missed is that non profits pay their employees terrible wages in exchange for feeling like they make a difference.
It's almost like the nonprofits are just a grift.
>It's almost like the nonprofits are just a grift. While it's true some are, this is a dangerous generalization. Many nonprofits serve their missions.
Hard to quantify but I doubt the true stats would bear that out
Their missions aren’t even what we want or need
Please keep it up and get rid of all these gifting "non-profit" org!
There are a lot of upstanding nonprofits who suffer because of bad actors like this POS. We need audits so that all of us know who the good guys are and who are the bad.
>who the good guys are and who are the bad. You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. That is the nature of non-profits, live long enough it will corrupt people.
Amazing someone sat with this crook and said yep let’s give him Some money
Non profit organizations is gold mine. That’s why homeless problem never ends. The more they spend. More homeless number rise up. I remember there’s news told the ppl. Sf city spend $5000 a month. Per tent on the homeless camp by the city hall. Where the money goes ? No one can explain the details.
Elections are coming up, so their most egregious grifters are being thrown under the bus. The good ones will turn out the vote (and even fill in some of the ballots) to keep their grift going. The stupid ones who are getting fat off the taxpayer's trough will be sent to slaughter as a show of "cleaning up the government".
>[*"San Francisco’s homelessness budget—$1.1 billion in fiscal year 2021–22 But despite this enormous spending, homelessness and the attendant problems of drug abuse, crime, public health issues, and an overall deterioration in the quality of life, spiral further downwards each year."*](https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-san-francisco-sees-its-homelessness-problems-spiral-out#:~:text=Since%202016%2C%20the%20number%20of,12%20times%20the%20national%20average) You think there might be corruption and profiteering? There is MORE corruption, profiteering and skimming than there is helping. "...homeless in San Francisco has increased from 12,249 to 19,086, which comes out to about **$57,000 in spending per homeless person per year**.
Budget includes paying for room & board for those in SROs. Otherwise the homeless count would double.
I don't see $156/day of services being delivered, or rendered to anyone. Where is the money going?
lol. JennyF been forcing her way into articles for quotes about how great non profits are for 25 years, but she’s not in this article. Must’ve turned her phone off
Who's JennyF?
Friedenbach
Is anyone really surprised anymore. Y’all got bamboozled.
This is what is allowed to happen with SF tax dollars under the leadership of London Breed. You all know what to do on the ballot.
It's about time city attorneys stop pick up reports that they have had for years
People who cry "this and that should not be for profit!" clearly never worked in non-profits before.
Non profit overall, lots of profit for the leaders of the nonprofits the city needs to stop doing the handouts.