The Better Business Bureau is warning about an organization that calls itself the National Police Support Fund — which, despite soliciting contributions from St. Louis-area donors, isn't actually a charity.The BBB notes that the organization attested on its website and in mailers that it's a nonprofit based in Alexandria, Virginia. But its investigators found that IRS filings actually place the organization at a "virtual office" in Wisconsin.
And when the BBB contacted the organization, the man who responded acknowledged that it was "a political action committee and not a charity," the BBB says — lacking the 501(c)3 designation given to non-profits that accept tax-deductible donations from the public.…