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Nonprofits Get a Cut of Petco Park Food Proceeds, But One of the Biggest Nonprofits at the Stadium Doesn’t Exist

Credit: Will Huntsberry Voice of San Diego.

Many Padres fans don’t even realize when they buy a $10 hot dog or a $20 tall boy: Roughly 10 percent of the take at many stands is supposed to be donated to charity.

Charities staff those concession stands at Petco Park and, in return, they get to keep anywhere from nine to 12 percent of the proceeds for their charity.

A group called Chula Vista Fast Pitch operates more stands than any other charity in the park – netting it potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, according to documents obtained by Voice of San Diego. The only problem is Chula Vista Fast Pitch does not exist.

Chula Vista Fast Pitch doesn’t have a website and it has no permits to use fields in Chula Vista. Official tax and business filings, as well as internet archives, show that such a charity did exist at one time. But it shut down in 2014. (The charity was called “Chula Vista Fastpitch.” Fastpitch, a version of softball, is one word, but the group at Petco spells it out in two words.)

Searches for many different permutations of Chula Vista Fast Pitch online, in business directories and in tax filings returned no current nonprofit organizations.

People familiar with the softball world, including the former founders of Chula Vista Fastpitch, say no one is using that name currently for softball purposes.

And yet, Chula Vista Fast Pitch has been operating in Petco Park for the last nine years. Multiple people familiar with the operation said it was an open secret that the charity doesn’t really exist.

So who oversees these groups? The city of San Diego owns Petco Park. It entrusts the management of the facility to the Padres. The Padres, in turn, entrust the management of concessions to Delaware North, a company involved in food, venue and hotel management all over the world.

Delaware North requires the nonprofits to submit paperwork on a semi-regular basis to verify their charitable status, according to emails obtained by Voice.

Officials for the company said they would investigate Chula Vista Fast Pitch after receiving questions from Voice.

The fact Chula Vista Fast Pitch was operating in some form and taking revenue from Petco Park charitable operations shocked the former softball league’s founders.

“Wow, okay, Jesus,” said Jackson Wyatt, who formed Chula Vista Fastpitch with his wife in 2008.  Wyatt said he had no idea anyone was still using the name.

Wyatt and his wife closed Chula Vista Fastpitch in 2014, he said, because they’d just had a daughter and no longer had the bandwidth to keep the league running.

“It seems so dumb that no one at Petco Park would notice,” said Wyatt. “Every softball team and all the leagues know each other. It seems very silly that’s the name someone’s gonna come up with, because right away it’s obvious [that it doesn’t exist.]”

Fake cancer charities found operating in Ohio

by: Adam Conn, Mark Feuerborn CREDIT NBC 4 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Eight fake charities in Ohio took advantage of names similar to real ones for five people to profit off donations, Attorney General Dave Yost said Thursday.

Among the false nonprofits were seven using “cancer” in their name, as well as one charity that directly took the name of another well-known organization.

In a final judgment in the case, Franklin County Common Pleas judge ordered Ian Hosang, Jomar Holmes, Rhett McIntosh, Judith Culzac and Claudia Stephen to pay $190,000 in civil penalties. Yost said the judge also banned them from associating with any charity, and they won’t be allowed to incorporate, organize or serve in any fiduciary capacity for any charitable organization in the future.

The $190,000 fine breaks down as holding liable both the incorporated fake charities and the defendants behind them. The judge required all eight nonprofits to pay $10,000 each to Yost’s office, but the five people involved had varying penalties:

• Hosang was ordered to pay $40,000
• Stephen was ordered to pay $30,000
• Culzac was ordered to pay $30,000
• McIntosh was ordered to pay $5,000
• Holmes was ordered to pay $5,000

Among the group behind the fake charities, Hosang also has pending litigation against him in Michigan, Washington, New York and other states where he set up dozens of similar nonprofit scams.

As part of the lawsuit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, the judge ordered the articles of incorporation be canceled for the eight charities formed by the group. These had no affiliation with nonprofits like the American Cancer Society or United Way, but used similar names to draw donations:

• American Cancer Society of Ohio Inc.
• American Cancer Society of Cincinnati Inc.
• American Cancer Society of Cleveland Inc.
• American Cancer Foundation of Columbus Inc.
• American Cancer Foundation of Ohio Inc.
• American Cancer Foundation of Cincinnati Inc.
• American Cancer Foundation of Cleveland Inc.
• United Way of Ohio Inc.

To research where a contribution goes when sending money to a charity in the state, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office said Ohioans can use the online tools on its website.

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