Billboards Are Bad Enough, But These...

The scammy St. Joseph's Indian School has not one but two billboards flanking each other on highway 280 in Saint Paul right now. 

This is the school that's known for mailing Chinese-made "dream catchers" to elderly people along with its fundraising letters. I know, because my mother-in-law had a whole bunch of their junk around her house, and she wasn't even Catholic. 

The current billboards are particularly sneaky because they don't use the school's name or anything that looks like their brand identity. Instead they just give a URL about "helping Lakota kids." (I'll try to get a photo of one of the boards when I get chance.)

I learned from the Charity Watch article linked above that religiously affiliated charities don't have to file a form 990 with the IRS, so these people can spend money however they want, essentially. What percent goes into actual program vs. fundraising? No one knows. They label the tchotchkes they mail out as "promotion of Lakota cultural heritage" and classify them as programmatic spending.

St. Joseph's is a school with about 200 students. Does that require the $100 million dollars they raised in 2020, for instance?

Where else does the money go?

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Update: Here's a photo of one of the two billboards. They're identical, so it doesn't matter that it's just one photo:

Now that I have a photo, I realize the school's name is actually on there, fairly small. I never saw it when going past on the highway.