No, he should most certainly send the bill to the family. In fact, I’m surprised he didn’t. /sarc
Is it okay for the promoter to take from the donation jars to help offset costs? To take money from the sale of family-provided bracelets to cover his losses?To keep the ticket proceeds when he said all ticket proceeds would go to the family? Is it okay for the promoter to not provide accounting information?
If a promoter says all ticket proceeds will go directly to the family to help support their needs, then it would seem that the promoter is responsible to come up with other means of covering the costs to put on the benefit.
I did not see that the promoter promised the family would get 100 percent of the money collected.
Most times when proceeds are donated to a cause like this, adminstrative expenses are taken out.
Unless the guy had a big fat paycheck inside the $7000 of expenses (or unless he stated that “100 percent of the proceeds will go to the cause”), then I don’t see the problem.
It will depend however on how the state defines “proceeds” - net or gross.