Opinion

by Martin Boers It is now widely known that the organisation formerly known as Atheist Alliance International (AAI) has been operating illegally since 2021. This week the California Attorney General published a summary of AAI's accounts for 2023 . These accounts provide almost no detail of how money was spent by AAIs illegitimate directors, but one thing they do show is that, of $36,779 in total expenses, only $25,191 was spent on "Program Expenses". This means that one third of AAIs expenses in 2023 - over ten thousand dollars - was spent on things that do not advance their supposed charitable purpose. Given that AAI boasts about their " financial accountability and low overhead costs " it will be interesting to see if AAI will ever tell their members and donors how this enormous amount of money was spent during 2023. Here are some possibilities for how this money may have been spent: it may have included the taxes, interest, and penalties associated with AAI