Posted April 16, 200718 yr Britney More Charitable Than Leo Monday , April 16, 2007 By Roger Friedman Britney Spears gave almost as much money in 2005 to the phony baloney Kabbalah Centre in Hollywood as Leonardo DiCaprio contributed in total to charitable causes. Indeed, Spears — who just settled her expensive divorce from Kevin Federline — forked over $30,000 to Spirituality for Kids, a division of the Kabbalah Centre, the same group that Madonna also lavishes with tax-free cash gifts. This is according to the most recent federal tax filing of the Britney Spears Foundation. In total, Britney gave away $590,000 in 2005, including $350,000 to relief programs related to Hurricane Katrina. Spears donated $175,000 alone to Habitat for Humanity. On the other hand — and just by comparison for a celebrity of her generation and income — actor Leonardo DiCaprio only gave away $48,025 in 2005 to a handful of groups from his own registered tax-exempt foundation. DiCaprio commands between $12 million and $15 million per film, at least, and famously made $10 million from "Titanic" in 1997. Spears, on other hand, hasn’t worked in a long time and is certainly cash-depleted, thanks to the Federline situation. Spears is also the target of the worst publicity in the world. But thanks to Nina Biggar, who runs the Britney Spears Foundation from her home in Cambridge, Mass., the pop star can count her charitable giving as a bright spot in her sketchy world. The foundation also donated $25,000 to Spears’ summer camp; $50,000 each to Gilda’s Club and City of Hope; and $6,000 to the American Cancer Society. Of course, foundation chief Biggar also kicked $50,000 to the private Inly School of Scituate, Mass. Maybe Spears is planning to send her kids there one day. Spears’ 2005 giving was way up from the previous year — just $20,000 in 2005. But there’s also no annual pattern. She donated $110,820 in 2003. Last year was the first record of her ponying up any dough for Kabbalah, a group that thrives on receiving donations from celebrities. As for DiCaprio, he recently announced that his foundation would be involved in launching a documentary about the environment. But records show that his giving has been quite limited in that area. While he often acts as a spokesman for environmental causes, he hasn’t been that generous with his hard-earned money. And more than half of the money he gave away originated not from him, but from a $27,300 donation made to his foundation by Godiva. DiCaprio’s largest recipients included the Library Foundation ($10,000); a charity for the U’wa people indigenous to Colombia and Amazon Watch ($17,000) and Robert Kennedy Jr.’s National Resources Defense Council ($3,000). SOURCE
April 18, 200718 yr Author Wow! Good on her, loving that she donates to better help nature! And even better, loving that someone reports something good about her -_-
