BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) nonprofit has repeatedly ignored Spotlight on Maryland’s questions about how it sent $7 million taxpayer funds back to the Baltimore City government.
The current Baltimore City budget sent $16 million to the BCYF nonprofit, which then sent $7 million to the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) to back a series of youth initiatives. BCYF said it has no documentation of this money transfer and refused to answer a series of questions about how its board decided to send the money.
The lack of documentation and unanswered questions strike at the heart of Baltimore’s ongoing accountability challenge: who is tracking how taxpayer dollars are used once they leave City Hall – and, in this case, why they returned…