DEFAULT IS NOT IN OUR STARS, BUT IN OURSELVES: Part 15 — Does Wenonah Park’s Aprocryphal “Million Dollar Baby” Story Need A Rewrite?

“Earlier this year, the Nickless Family Charitable Foundation agreed to donate $1 million toward the building of a new public pavilion in the downtown Bay City park.”

MLive: December 6, 2015

Turns out the Nickless Foundation may not have donated “$1.0 Million” to the Wenonah Park Community Pavilion.

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An in-depth review of the Nickless Family Charitable Foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF (Return of a Private Foundation) reports, beginning with the 2013 filing up through and including the year ending December 2022, reveals only one reference to the “Wenonah Park Pavilion”.

In an excerpt from the report for the year ending December 31, 2016, (shown below) the Nickless Foundation cited a $658,256 grant/contribution to the “City of Bay City Michigan” for a “Wenonah Park Pavilion Project”.

To paraphrase Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman, that’s still some fat stacks, dead presidents, cash money.

But it’s not a million.

Somewhere, a million dollar baby just burped.

If you think I’m wrong, prove it.