JWorg Non-Profit Profiteers
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a small religion that represents one of the wealthiest per capita in the world. With just a little over 8 million members, they squeeze out well over an estimated two billion dollars in donations on an annual basis. The organization holds approximately $50 billion in land holdings and properties worldwide while claiming religious non-profit status and benefiting from tax-exempt monies.
A typical tax-exempt religion must do charitable works to qualify for the benefit of not paying taxes that assist the local economy and the general public. Many religious organizations have soup kitchens, outreach to the homeless, international food drives for third world countries, assistance to the poor such as housing and groceries to just name a few. Many times when there are disasters local churches open as community centers and donate thousands to help those in need. These are all considered a viable basis to have non-profit status as something charitable is being given back to the community.
What do Jehovah’s Witnesses do for their tax-exempt status? None of the above. They are a publishing company of literature that promotes an emanate apocalypse with the only way to survive is to become a literature-distributing member as well. Once they have you hooked as a member then you are required to make donations each month for numerous items they specify. In the event you refuse and promote this rejection to others, you are excommunicated and all your family and friends will shun you as a form of extortion or blackmail till you agree to give them money again.
Does that sound like a charitable organization to you?
Jehovah’s Witnesses claim on their website they assist when disasters occur, but the facts show they hit up members in the nondisaster areas for donations ranging from clothing to money and then only provide assistance to their own members who represent a fraction of the population in the disaster affected area. The organization then pockets the rest in yet another windfall to rake in, even more, money while claiming tax deductions with donated funds. If members happen to have insurance, while fellow members donate free labor for repairs, they are coerced to sign over insurance checks for inferior materials and labor, giving the home office yet another cash cow to milk.
In 2014 the organization invested several million dollars into rebranding “Watchtower” into the more social media friendly JWorg. Members around the world were sent letters to their local congregations demanding a specified donation each month from every member that was to be totaled and that amount sent in collectively by each congregation. Typically this ranges from $500 to as much as $3,000 or more each month. When you factor in there is over 130,000 congregations of JWs, you can see how collectively the flock is being fleeced tax-free. In addition, several cost saving programs were rolled out to diminish the amount of literature used by members that represented hundreds of millions in printing cost savings.
The question remains, how have the extortion and literature cutbacks paid off for these money grubbing profiteers parading as a religion? We have the 2015 accounting reports coming in from England.
The JWorg corporations is divided into two entities:
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Britain (Which takes in money from most of Europe and Africa)
And the IBSA (International Bible Students Association) (Which deals with money of a more local nature in the UK)
If you look at the financial reports just filed (as required by law) in Britain you will see things have truly paid off. Watchtower Britain was able to double their profits from $38,226, 074 in 2014 to a whopping $79,348,258 in tax-free cash to spend as they please. How much was actually spent on humanitarian relief?
A grand total of $199,300.
So let’s see, if I could create a corporation with non-profit status that takes in $80 million in donations and then actually sends out $199,300 in humanitarian relief would you consider that profit or non-profit?
The IBSA did pretty well; going from $75,479,502 in 2014 to a 25% gain of $91,170,028 tax-free money with a grand total of $4,089 going to aid oversees.
Let’s do the math:
$79,348,258
+$91,170,028
$170,518,286 Total tax-free donations
$199,300
$ 4,089
$203,389 Total Humanitarian relief
$170,518,286
- $ 203,389
$170,314,897 Tax free money for a non-profit religion.
Interestingly, members of the seven-member Governing Body have repeatedly made monthly videos begging for more donations claiming they were not going to be able to cover expenses and that members needed to dig even deeper over and above their required donations to keep them from being in the red.
Does that look like the “red” to you?
Perhaps now the reader can understand the reason Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the wealthiest religions per member on the face of the earth. They publish literature, use their members as slaves to distribute it, then require members to donate as well as the public to support their non-profit status as a religion. In addition, the organization, at the direction of the Governing Body, is using tax-free donated funds to defend their pedophiles in court cases being fought around the world. For every dollar donated to Jehovah’s Witnesses, a few cents protects a JW pedophile from prison and from compensating victims of their abuse.
It is interesting that when a member leaves the religion they often hope for the demise of the religion. They speak of the downsizing as evidence that the organization as failing and about to go out of business any minute. This in turn enlivens the XJW community to get excited that some how they are going to see the end, with their relatives being left to seek their company again with a major vindication. If you believe this you are living in a false reality much like it was when you were a JW. A false reality is a place where you believe things that are not based on facts or true circumstances, but instead it is a type of false hope that your ideal dream might just come true. As a JW it was the paradise earth. You put off everything to think that at any minute you were going to be ushered into a perfect place where everything would be wonderful. Well for most XJWs they do not have paradise and they are shunned by the practices of JWorg. So for them, they hold to a false reality of the organization failing with their siblings and parents waking up, to allow them to be part of the family again. They base this false reality on creating a type of “fake news” in which pieces of evidence are stitched together to make it appear that it is going to happen at any minute.
What are some elements of this false reality?
The organization is going broke. The evidence that is used is the 2014 material in which congregations were asked to send in a set amount of money each month.
The change in the distribution of literature with less magazines being published each month.
The selling of Kingdom Halls and combining congregations.
The Gb requests for donations saying they are in the red and need more money.
Selling out of Brooklyn NY properties.
The electronic conversion of paper to I Pads for meetings service etc...
The cart work with downsized material.
These various things as well as others, are pointed to as proof the organization is going under at any minute... or is it? Are the things above truly based in reality?
By way of example, let’s pretend you had a house payment along with credit card bills with your total expenditures at around $3,000 a month. If you made some adjustments with an equity loan and paid off your credit cards, you get your expenses down to $1,500 month; would that mean you are going out of business? What would you do with the extra $1,500 a month? Invest? put it away? Buy new property? Go into business? Take a lot of vacations? These are things people do when they economize and have extra money.
In the end, if you look at the reality, JWorg has literally saved millions of dollars by processes implemented since 2014. They have hired bean counters to squeeze every last dollar from the printing and operations as well as how to account for a specific amount of money coming from all congregations. While they continually ask for more money as all religions do, they have tightened their belt to maximize their profits. In 2004 they reported in the NY Post a net income, just from the NY Watchtower Corporation of one billion dollars. Now that was with just four million members contributing. This was with the bloated business operation model that went back to the 1950’s. Today with the tightened belt and selling of the cash draining Brooklyn properties, along with hundreds of kingdom Halls that have sit in urban areas that have gained billions of dollars in property values being sold off; how could anyone with reality based thinking believe they are going broke?
The reality is this; Eight million members mean two billion in income at least each year. The amount they spent on all special pioneers and missionaries last year? (this includes the missionary homes and branches) $214,000,000 in 2018. In 2004 they spent $125,000,000 on the same group. So think! They doubled in size and with cuts are doing the same job with millions less money. Remember all the people sent home from bethel starting in 2014? Those they are supporting are part of this group and they are saving millions more by transferring the bulk of their care to local congregations.
Regarding the child abuse settlements, at the most they have paid out seventy-five million dollars. To them that is nothing more than parking ticket. In six years they have raked in around $12,000,000,000. That is a very conservative number considering the money from $2,000,000,000 Brooklyn property sales and other properties around the world. The organization is not going down in fact, they are in a stronger financial position than ever in the history of the organization. With the new compound in Warwick they now have a private country club, tax free, that saves them millions from what they were paying in Brooklyn NY. JWorg is crafty and smart and actually love it when former members of the XJW community write blogs or make videos saying how bad they hurting financially and how they are about to go down. I am sure in the GB meetings if it is ever brought up they all have a hearty round of laughter at what the lying “apostates” are saying.
Whether you are a JW or XJW one realty based fact is true; you are part of or were once part of, one of the wealthiest religions on the face of the earth. JWorg is NEVER going out of business. Your JW family is NEVER going to see their demise and come back to be in your life due to financial failing of JWorg. Each negative story is going to be spun as apostate lies and persecution, which does nothing but make a JW stronger in their resolve to be loyal to the organization. So move on with life, get an education, find a surrogate family, make new friends, get a real job, get some therapy, do things to make your life complete and better, instead of waiting on a going to see their demise and come back to be in your life due to financial failing of JWorg. Do this instead of waiting on a false reality, that is nothing more than a waste of time, energy, and life that you already did as a Jehovah’s Witness.
The organization is without conscience as they publish stories of children in Africa selling their chickens to send in donations of their last dime to the organization. The profits are phenomenal and getting more remarkable each year, as JWorg trims off the fat while increasing their gratuitous margins. They are religious robber barons using non-profit profiteering, in the most obscene way, taking from poor innocent people while claiming poverty.
Is this the work of Jesus or of Satan?
Is this what Jesus would do?
The numbers show the answer.
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See links to financial reports here: JWorg/finances/