re: #115 Big Steve

To be fair…Romney had a reported gross income of $21M last year and paid $4M in charitable donations. So about 19%. So only half goes to the LDS. In 2010 most of the remainder of his charitable donations were to the Tyler Foundation which funds epilepsy research.

Nope.

ut I then went on to describe The Tyler Foundation as a Boston-based charity that helps kids with epilepsy, an assumption I made after a Google search (en exact match in Boston? Of course it’s the right “Tyler Foundation”!)

Well, a sharp-eyed reader did some digging on this and discovered that I was a bonehead. Specifically, the reader found that I had the wrong Tyler Foundation. The right Tyler Foundation, it appears, is a private legal entity controlled and funded by the Romneys that gives smaller gifts to other charities.

This was a stupid mistake on my part, and I apologize for it.

So, what is this “Tyler Foundation” that gets so much of Mitt Romney’s money?

It’s a private Boston-based legal entity that had more than $10 million in assets at the end of 2010.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-charitable-donations-2012-7#ixzz215l5s8hk