"Can't Feed" 200, 400, 600 Animals on $700,000? See IRS Form here...

Grace foundation keeps bragging they "rescued" 400+ animals this year PLUS they KEEP permanently, 100+ horses, allegedly for kids to ride on plus quite a few more, for who knows what reason.  Plus they allegedly have the 20 or so horses from Mr. Bennett, then took another 35 or so from Mr. Bennett, via actual seizure through receivership. Mind you, no animals were taken by following the law as we understand it.

From reviewing several of the Grace Foundation 990 IRS returns, it appeared that the adoptions may have brought in less than $8,800 or so in one year. As you can see below, Grace has not even filed for 2009 or 2010.  Late yet again.

 Maybe Grace should consider cutting back on the number of animals acquired, or those that seem to be requiring the constant begging for money in order to feed/ fund the collecting of abused animals?  An animal sanctuary is one that basically keeps allegedly abused, old, diseased, animals with possible huge health issues or decrepit animals that no one wants, or once in awhile just animals that are ok, but no one wants them or they can't go to normal homes.  We aren't saying you cannot do this, because obviously you can.

However, when you keep helping to seize animals, collect animals, and BUY animals from auctions [and who knows where else], we have to ask ourselves whether the act of seizing is done on purpose so that $$$ will come in, by using the pathetic, emotional drivel, and often times inaccurate and hyped up stories that go along with such videos and press releases.

We have often had doubts for those who would take 3 legged dogs, one eyed cats, or pathetically behaviorally damaged or mentally disturbed pets, just so they can satisfy their own desire to be a victim rescuer in theory, while making money, or begging people to give them $$$$$ so that they can keep taking more of these types of animals. It would seem to be more of an obsessive compulsive behavior, not really realistic, and judging just by the cost, it is not a "business" whether charitable or not, that pays for itself.  Animals are not people.  A damaged animal who has humans that would like to buy such animal is fine, but to collect such animals to prey on the pity of the emotional appeal in order to FUND the entire effort is another story.

What we see Grace Foundation doing is using some animals for education, no problem with that. However the bulk of what it costs to run an organization (a charity like this) seems to cost far more than what it would appear. Horses are very expensive to take care of over time (as admitted by Grace Foundation) so it would seem that even if you made only $500,000 and you knew that wasn't going to cut it, then you better stop taking in more large animals.  You better stop collecting animals that cost a lot to maintain.  You better stop going to auction to BUY animals for marketing purposes using emotional drivel.  You better figure out that even with $400,000 $500,000 and $700,000--- it will never be enough if you keep creating more expenses.

So to hear Grace Foundation claim and lament that Mr. Bennett's horses might foal [all those baby horses], HEY--- you knew when you agreed to take the $40,000 that mares could be pregnant. To be honest, we never want to see you take any foals from other people's animals, and then get them homes. We already have nightmares just thinking of how you manage to plow through more than half a million and keep begging people for money.



.  In any event, take a look at the numbers that the Grace Foundation shows for income-- and you think you have problems? Living large on $700,000 is a problem when you keep hoarding and collecting and taking in animals that will cost thousands and thousands over several months alone. Everyone know that feed costs are not going to go down.  Everyone knows that gas isn't really going to go down. Everyone knows that premium feed for all animals is not cheap. We also noted that for advertising, Grace Foundation's listed numbers are paltry compared to what type of money is taken in. Almost nothing is spent for postage. So all the advertising, while some could be free, is apparently not what Grace spends hard cash on. Nope.  It's more like the time spent on the email lists, sending out emotional and horrific letters detailing the seizures done, animals taken in, and who can donate? Well--that saved Grace some money on advertising, didn't it.

Is the Grace Foundation Collecting+ Buying Animals??? Yep.....

When one runs an animal rescue, we assume they take in animals to rehome. We do not assume they collect, hoard or BUY animals from kennels, auctions, or other sources.  When we say BUY, we mean BUYING animals by the pound. (By the pound by weight--not from an animal shelter pound)  We mean BUYING animals at a livestock auction, where you buy the animal and have to actually PAY for each animal by the pound.  Stay with us here, because at the last paragraph we will tell you what type of income Grace Foundation has been taking in, as evidenced by their IRS990 form. 

Then we see the Grace Foundation primadonna, Bethie POO Decrapio, who claims she cannot provide the $$$ to buy enough food for horses she helped seize...........hmmm????  WTF?  Then she should not have taken animals she cannot afford to house and feed!  Grace Foundation was PAID to take Mr. Bennett's seized horses, and it was $40,000, not $400, not $4,000.  And that's even with the seizure being improper and likely completely not legal.

Just look at all of the postings online done by Grace Foundation, all the interviews, all of the postings of her "horrific" video, she has them everywhere, in fact she sends out the donation begging pages to help, help, help, but fails to tell everyone that she was already PAID $40,000 to take care of the seized horses that didn't even need much, if any, medical care.  In fact you won't see any pictures of THOSE seized horses because there is nothing wrong with them!!

Does anyone smell a rat? Decrapio knows and admits that Wells Fargo and possibly Bank of America GAVE her at least $40,000 to take Bennett's horses "seized" by receivership.  Nevertheless, Grace Foundation did NOT take "starving" horses, as the horses were not starving and did not need medical attention.  They were not seized because they would die. They were seized because the Wells Fargo attorney wanted to seize the real property estate and wanted the horses cleared off the land.  By bringing in Grace as a conduit, Grace Foundation simply started the video rolling and the rest is history.  Lassen County didn't pay Grace to take any horses. But somehow Lassen County got involved enough with Wells Fargo receiver such that Lassen county employee, receiver, and Grace Foundation Decrapio all wrote declarations that horses were going to perish if not removed.  Funny how the actual status of the horses do not match up with any declarations.

Seizing animals via "ex parte" means you don't get much notice, if any.  Ex parte seizure by receivership is very uncommon and receivership in residential property is very uncommon.  Yet Wells Fargo was and is determined to take the property because it involves predatory foreclosure, which is something Wells Fargo wants to keep quiet.  The laws involving questionable title procedure has been in the news daily, since California, Nevada and Florida are hard hit by foreclosures. The property the horses were seized from is NOT in foreclosure because Wells Fargo doesn't want to go there due to the improper procedures used to transfer title during the years of ignoring state laws and title transfer requirements. California is a non judicial foreclosure state and is actually more difficult to challenge predatory foreclosure.

So Grace Foundation keeps showing horse remains in her video, letters, and her $$$$ pitches to people to "donate to the hay barn" campaign, to donate, donate, donate because Grace cannot afford these animals.  If one cannot afford animals and to feed them, then why BUY them at auction?  Why claim you can take 20 animals if you cannot afford to feed them?  Why take animals of any kind that costs more than you can ever recover in a bad market?
Why try to say you need to get all the 'not yet born foals' homes when you do NOT even OWN the animals? If Grace had their way, they would have killed the unborn foals (according to what Grace stated) but claimed it was too late to do that now.

Only several days AFTER Grace Foundation acquired the "seized" horses (July-August), Decrapio went online in yet ANOTHER interview and claimed she couldn't afford to care for the horses and had them placed in Auburn, NOT at the Grace "ranch."  By the way, Grace's "ranch" is 600 acres where she pays one dollar ($1.00) per year to use the land.  That's it--$1.00 per year.  Not $10,000, not $15,000 and not $20,000.  JUST $1.00 per year.  Yet she claims she cannot feed or provide housing for seized horses she did agree to take for $40,000?

Grace Foundation works with the notorious Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) which is a known animal rights lobbying/marketing group, with the largest amount of monetary backing of any animal rights group in the USA.  This is verified by reviewing the HSUS IRS 990 documents. On Charity Navigator, HSUS has now been downgraded to a "D" from their former rating.  HSUS cannot brag about being A rated.  They are not.

HSUS is being investigated by the IRS for excessive lobbying, which violates the 501(c)(3) rules.  HSUS is being sued for racketeering when they were caught during a 9 year lawsuit, when they helped pay a Plaintiff to BE the Plaintiff in Federal Court. HSUS has lost several United States Supreme Court cases, including one on depictions of "animal cruelty" and they will be losing their "downed animal" law for California at least as to non ambulatory pigs.  The United States Supreme Court just heard argument on the non ambulatory pig case, and the law (written by HSUS/friends) will almost certainly be preempted by Federal law already in place.

Ok now for the Grace Foundation revelation. The Grace Foundation that cannot pay for hay or seized animals,  and has to keep begging, begging, begging for $$$$ showed a gross in the $700,000 range, up from $400,000.

Maybe you tell us why a person running an organization that takes in $700,000, most of it in DONATIONS, cannot buy enough hay for the horses.  We think it's pretty simple.  When your expenses are higher than your donations, and you actually BUY horses by the "pound" that you cannot afford to feed, and you keep 100 (one hundred) horses as permanent fixtures that you certainly do NOT need since many of them are likely unnecessary yard ornaments that cost big dollar to keep, and require excessive vet care and costs, and you continue to take "seizure" animals that cost more money to store, feed and train, then you are not in the business of running a charity, but are just hoarding animals that likely would have been killed a long time ago when their useful lives were expended. When people think that running a charity means you must keep and save every single thing you can get your hot little hands on, they have missed the boat entirely.

 Animal rescue does not mean to save the worst and keep them forever, especially when you claim you cannot afford it. Rescue's purpose is to save the best and amplify the numbers, not take the worst and use the pathetic creatures as a sickening marketing money tool. But that is exactly what animal rights does.

The Deception--- the Grace Foundation of Northern California

Let's take a look-see at what the Grace Foundation of Northern California is doing. We aren't talking about the helping kids or the police program. We're talking about the $$$$$ that Grace Foundation Decrapio claims they don't have all the time.


Example: Why was Grace Foundation sued at least 4 times while making $300,000, $400,000, $700,000 per year?????? Could the "hay" for almost "100-170" horses  be..... "too expensive?" 


Could it be that Grace Foundation BUYING horses from a horse auction in TEXAS (not California, mind you, that would have been too easy because she would be recognized) ---  which are already sick, etc, and paying for them BY the POUND (remember, horses weigh in the 1,000's of pounds) -- and then either RESELLING them, as "rescued" of course-- OR  purposely *using* sick animals as a MARKETING PLOY  for those who wouldn't recognize a scam when they see one......... could ANY of that have anything to do with Grace Foundation Decrapio "can't afford" HAY?????  
Is all this $$$$$$ in "donations" [which is the alleged bulk of the income] being thrown at Grace just to sustain the collection of 100-200 horses and the vet bills? Adoption fees do not sustain the business by any stretch of the imagination, but keeping animals not necessary to the business can be very expensive.


OR even worse.............. could Grace Foundation Decrapio simply make a VIDEO of horse remains on the ground, and then PUBLISH the video,  implicating that Mr. Bennett KILLED those very same horses-- just because Decrapio HAS a video of such horse remains????   Was Decrapio present when said horses were alive?  


Did Decrapio have personal knowledge of any killing?  Did Decrapio somehow have a witness tell her that he/she actually knew Bennett "killed" every horse simply because the witness wanted to say so?  [the answer is no, just in case you are wondering]  


Did Grace Foundation Bethie POO know that the horse ranch in Susanville [54 acres]  had been the victim of animal killing after Mr. Bennett's ex girlfriend split, and that moving evidence of such killing might actually implicate the person moving it? It's called chain of custody?


Does Grace Foundation see that by taking illegally seized animals, she is part and parcel of the illegal seizure, she took $$$$ from the people [Wells Fargo] seizing the animals, she is legally allegedly represented by same Wells Fargo attorney,  yet she is attempting to raise FUNDING  $$$$ by using the seized horses [paid for by Wells Fargo] as a marketing ploy? 


And further, Decrapio uses a deceptive video that her Grace Foundation took, and pieced it together to make a story of killing or killed animals, when in fact there is no evidence that Mr. Bennett killed anything, nor is he charged with killing animals? Grace keeps stating there were "X number of horses were found dead on the property" yet she purposely FAILS to explain that all or nearly all had been dead for quite some time, and were purposely not moved [to avoid tampering with evidence ] Had the evidence been buried, then Grace would have said it was buried to "hide" it, no doubt?


In addition, Grace Foundation purposely rallied people to call the District Attorney to prosecute Mr. Bennett, and bragged about it, even though there is no evidence that he killed anything at all? How about a "warrant" for animal abuse about 5 months AFTER the illegal seizure-- when no animals were there? The usual scenario is to have the warrant first, then seizure, then the notice/hearing. None of that was done according to law. In fact the process used (alleged receivership) was not done properly as well, and the "receiver" had never even done a "receivership" before in her life. Further, the sheriff deputies agree that the "receivership" documents do not constitute eviction documents and are not legally available to evict anyone.


AND-- to top it off-- two "seizure" horses in the care of the GRACE FOUNDATION --- after having been there in Grace's possession we assume,  for months--DIED while under the Grace Foundation's care........... just recently? in November?  About 5-8 months in Grace's possession or however long......but you don't read about THAT on the Grace Foundation site, do you????


Oh but there's more!! Now Grace Foundation or someone else has decided that people need to call, write, text and threaten Mr. Bennett's attorney on his bankruptcy case, not the criminal allegations.  All of those threats and harassing messages should go straight to the Judge. The criminal defense attorney has made good progress on the case, finding many witnesses are operating on very low brain power and even worse on their credibility.


Oh, and did we forget to mention--- while INSIDE the Federal Courthouse, Grace Foundation Bethie Poo tried to assault both Mr. Bennett and his attorney, even in front of the security guards, using profanity, expletives, and threats. She had to be ESCORTED OUT of the courthouse, and continued her screaming and ranting right outside the doors to the Courthouse.  This is typical of animal rights antics.