SF’s 10 Wildest Nonprofit Spending Scandals of the Last Five Years, Ranked

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/06/04/sfs-10-wildest-nonprofit-spending-scandals-of-the-last-five-years-ranked/This week’s blow-up of the SF Parks Alliance only underscores the staggering number of SF nonprofits with improper spending scandals, and other riches-to-rags financial improprieties that have happened here over the last five years.   Many San Francisco nonprofits do wonderful work, feeding those in need, helping the homeless, and beautifying our city. But the myriad of nonprofit scandals that have broken out these past five years shows that some nonprofits have been enjoying the use of your tax dollars for half-million-dollar concert trips to Dubai, $10,000 cottage rentals at Martha’s Vineyard, or $19,000 worth of tuition money to send some city off