The New York Times dropped a bombshell report spotlighting what appears to be inappropriate business expenditures by GLAAD’s chief executive, Sarah Kate Ellis. The times reviewed expense reports and receipts from January 2022 through June 2023, as well as employment agreements, tax filings, audit reports that seems to show a pattern of lavish spending at GLAAD.
Legal experts said the expenditures were very inappropriate for a nonprofit any kind, especially one the size of GLAAD with about 60 employees that, in exchange for being exempt from federal and state taxes, must ensure that executive pay is reasonable and aligned with the charity’s mission and the intent of donors.
The spending, much of it by GLAADs chief executive Sarah Kate Ellis, may have violated the organization’s own policies as well as I R S rules, the Times reporting shows.
At the time of this report no word from Ellis.