The Completionist\u2019s charity accused of withholding over $600K in donations IG: thecompletionistPopular YouTuber The Completionist\u2019s charity, The Open Hand Foundation, has been accused of holding back more than $600,000 in dementia research funds. The Open Hand Foundation, founded by Jirard Khalil \u2013 the content creator behind the popular YouTube channel The Completionist \u2013 and his family, have been accused of not contributing any of the funds it raised to any organizations for dementia research despite claiming to do so. The accusations are coming from all angles as YouTubers, including Karl Jobst and SomeOrdinaryGamers, have uploaded detailed breakdowns of the situation after researching and communicating with the Open Hand Foundation. The foundation, which officially became a non-profit organization in 2014, reportedly raised over $600,000, but this money is allegedly still sitting in their bank account. Jobst, in a breakdown video titled \u201cThis Charity Is Lying To You,\u201d explained that according to the foundation\u2019s tax filings, they received significant contributions each year, deducted some expenses, and then added the remaining cash to their existing stockpile, which now totals $655,000. \u201cFor the past ten years, they have raised over $600,000, and it\u2019s all just sitting in their bank account despite Open Hand saying the money goes to help fund research, and despite the fact that everyone believes their money is going to a worthwhile cause, this is simply not the case,\u201d Jobst states. Despite claims on their website and by Khalil that the foundation supports various organizations, including the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), there is allegedly no record that a single dollar has been dispersed to any charity or research organization. \u201cIn 10 years of filings, they have not dispersed a single dollar to anyone,\u201d Jobst claimed. \u201cThey have kept everything for themselves.\u201d Jobst explained seeming discrepancies, such as a quote on the Open Hand Foundation\u2019s website from David Kessler, which states, \u201cI am deeply grateful for your recent gift to UCSF School of Medicine. Your support of Frontotemporal Dementia and related degenerative diseases research is invaluable.\u201d Yet, as Jobst points out, Kessler was fired from his role as dean at UCSF in 2007, a full seven years before the Open Hand Foundation was registered as a non-profit, leading many to wonder how or why the quote is even on the foundation\u2019s website. Baffled by the findings, Jobst questioned the Open Hand Foundation directly to learn more about the situation. A response from Jacque Khalil, Jirard\u2019s brother, claims that before their official registration as a foundation, they \u201cdonated body parts for research and made financial contributions to an institution that, in our view, made insufficient progress.\u201d There is no record of any disbursement of funds, however. As Jobst states, \u201cEssentially, Open Hand is claiming that because they made donations before they were registered in 2014, which we cannot confirm because it wasn\u2019t public at the time, this means it is acceptable to not pass along of the money that the public has given them until they find someone they deem worthy.\u201d Jobst and Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers spoke with Jirard Khalil, who claimed he was unaware until 2021 that the funds had not been forwarded to any organizations and has since been trying to find a place to send the money. And that leads to the important question of whether the money is still there, to which Jobst added, \u201cJirard assures us they still have the full amount of money and are looking to donate it as soon as possible\u2026 however, due to Open Hand\u2019s past dishonesty, I think we do need concrete proof of this donation when it happens.\u201d Jirard or the Open Hand Foundation is yet to publicly comment on the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Completionist\u2019s charity accused of withholding over $600K in donations IG: thecompletionistPopular YouTuber The Completionist\u2019s charity, The Open Hand Foundation, has been accused of holding back more than $600,000 in dementia research funds. The Open Hand Foundation, founded by Jirard Khalil \u2013 the content creator behind the popular YouTube channel The Completionist \u2013 and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}