4/09/2013: The UO Foundation is spending about $200K on a lobbyist, Ginny Lang, with the job of convincing the legislature to keep UO faculty off the new UO Board. Where else do your tax deductible contributions to the UO Foundation go? Mostly to sports. More and more so every year:
Data from the Council for Aid to Education. The UO Foundation’s latest report to them is here. This is just the data on gifts for current expenditures. CEO Paul Weinhold refuses to report the endowment gifts broken out by athletics/academics. Must be worried about his tax-exempt status. He’s also dragging out his required report to the IRS on expenditures. Their books closed on July 1 2012. Their IRS 990, which provides some bare-bones financial transparency, was due Nov 15. They asked for an extension – it ran out on Feb 15. They asked for another, so maybe we’ll see some numbers May 15, 2013.
To the econometricians who teach about finding structural breaks… let some students chew on these data for a bit?