Tom sent me a nice email:
Loving Mets Police, as always. Reading your post on “I will root for whoever I want,” where you wondered about the Beltran foundation being in Washington got me curious enough to go look up the IRS Form 990 (non-profit) filing for Fundacion Carlos Beltran.
Thought you might be interested. Nothing really controversial or even directly related, but I am always fascinated by non-profit filings. At least it gives you a sense of the scale of the operation.
The registered address for the charity is in Miami (though it is an “in care of” address apparently for the group’s accountants, implying that the foundation has no separate actual physical offices).
Tom gave me a link that shares all the financials, but I’m not posting this to have everyone be all up in Beltran’s business so I’m not going to include that link. It’s just to answer the question whether or not the Foundation is based in DC. According to what I looked at it doesn’t seem to have a physical space in Washington.
If you’re curious about the financials – well I’m just a fat guy with a laptop but it looks like some donations were made to the charity and the charity supports some causes including Harlem RBI. Check out Carlos’ site for more.
Since the original post I linked to the story about Beltran visiting the VA Hospital in November 2009 which is a good read, and if you missed it this morning, this solider thanked the Mets for coming.
However, I am still reading media stories about how people like me are jerkyfaces for calling out the players. As I said yesterday, I will root for whoever I want.
Thanks to Tom for sending this in – submissions always welcome at [email protected]
Interesting. The location is hardly relevant though. Everyone knew Carlos would be in Washington this week, so it’s certainly possible someone he was meeting with made it a point to be there as well.