Sounds like she has a neurosis - some people have to hoard things whether they need to or not.
Giving Tree finances
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/315721.php
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.02.2009
• GT Outreach Program incorporated in Arizona.
1999
• GT Outreach Program dissolved by state for not filing annual financial reports.
2001
• Wright files five years’ worth of financial statements to get GT Outreach Program reinstated by the Arizona Corporation Commission. Documents list no more than $1,200 in annual revenue for those five years and a bank balance of $353 in 2000.
2002
• IRS: Form 990 lists $33,000 in revenue.
• ACC: Lists $24,000 in revenue.
2003
• IRS and ACC reports show $42,000 in revenue.
2004
• IRS: $199,000 in revenue and $160,000 in expenses.
• ACC: Lists $104,000 in revenue and $104,000 in expenses. But when all the individual expenses are totaled, they are more than $200,000.
2005
• IRS: $967,000 in revenue and $766,000 in expenses.
• ACC: The Giving Tree incorporates three new entities — Giving Tree Outreach, Giving Tree II and the Compassion Hope Center. Since then, Compassion Hope Center — the organization’s largest shelter, which the city shut down in August — reports no expenses or revenue.
• Giving Tree Outreach shows $215,000 in income in 2005 and $172,000 in expenses. Giving Tree II lists no assets or liabilities.
2006
• IRS: GT Outreach Program lists $1.06 million in revenue and $973,000 in expenses.
• ACC: No information about the GT Outreach Program’s 2006 budget. Another corporation, Giving Tree Outreach, reports $266,000 in revenue and $182,000 in expenses. Giving Tree II lists no assets or liabilities.
2007
• IRS: GT Outreach Program lists $1.36 million in revenue and $1.15 million in expenses.
• ACC: GT Outreach reports $521,700 in revenue and $493,400 in expenses, with a net income of $28,000.
• The ACC dissolves the three other Giving Tree corporations for not filing financial records. They are reinstated later after filing several years’ worth of reports.
• Giving Tree Outreach reports the same $521,700 in revenues and $493,400 in expenses as GT Outreach Program.
• Giving Tree II lists assets and liabilities for the first time: $315,000 in a checking account and $468,000 in fixed assets.
2008
• IRS: Form 990 not yet filed.
• ACC: Documents filed do not list financial information, which was no longer required starting in 2008.
She sounds like those people you see on that show “Hoarders”. Disturbing and so wrong. This is reason number 564 why I donate directly to families instead of the middle man.