The executive director of a large LGBT nonprofit allegedly spent the organization's money on a lavish personal lifestyle, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Sarah Kate Ellis, chief executive of GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, spent large sums of donor's money on expenses such as remodeling her home office with a chandelier, renting a Cape Cod property, first class flights and luxury hotels, according to the NYT's review of expense reports from January 2022 to June 2023. The expenses may be in violation of both the organization's guidelines and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules, legal experts told the NYT. The spending was "a potentially abusive use of charitable funds that would be surprising and insulting to a lot of their donors," Michael West, a New York Council of Nonprofits lawyer, told the NYT.
