i m not going to be doing any interviews. reporter: it is perhaps with good reason that the kids wish network don t wish to answer any of our questions. because they all involve how this tiny charity with a sympathetic name has taken in $127 million of your donations over the last ten years. yet according to the charity s own tax filings, it has used less than 3% of that money to fulfill the wishes of sick children. you heard right, less than 3%. that s not true. reporter: that s what is on the tax returns. we re very proud of the work we have done over the last 15 years. we ve helped hundreds of thousands of children, and that s what we re going to continue to do. reporter: year after year, kids wish network collects millions in donations. $22.8 million in one year, according to its most recent tax filing.
math is correct. in the last ten years, it s about 2.5% of every dollar actually donated to fulfill a wish, and last year, anderson, in the last reporting year, it was even worse, 1.29 cents of every dollar. that is the math. that s i mean, it s just unbelievable that is what they define as program services. tell marketers, if someone called you up and said we would like you to donate money and the vast majority of the money we ll spend on telemarketers so we can get more money and get the name of our organization better known, you wouldn t donate money. they are not saying that. i mean, i want to show a picture. this is anna lanzatella, the woman you were trying to get the interview with, she was hiding in the office. someone said she wasn t there and you wait twod hours and got her as she was coming out to her car, running away to her car and
the last reporting year it was even worse, 1.29 cents of every dollar. that is the math. that s that s unbelievable. that that is what they define as program services. telemarketers. if someone called you up and said we d like you to donate money and the vast majority of the money you are going to donate to us we are going to spend on telemarketers so we can get more money and get the name of our organization better known, you wouldn t donate money. they are not saying that. i don t want to show a picture. this is anna lanzatella. she is the woman who was hiding in the office when you went to the office she asked if she was there. someone said she is not there and you got her as she was coming out to her car two hours later. and we d love to have ms. lanzatella. we d love to have an interview
nice to see you, can we just ask you some questions about the ratings that have come out no, i m sorry, there is so many misleading reports, we asked our attorneys to look into everything and i m not going to be doing any interviews, thank you. reporter: it is perhaps with good reason she and the kids wish network don t wish to answer any questions because they all involve how this tiny charity with a sympathetic name has taken in $127 million of your donations over the last ten years. yet, according to the charity s own tax filings, it has used less than 3% of that money to fulfill the wishes of sick children. you heard right, less than 3%. that s not true. we re reporter: that s what is on the tax return. we re very proud of the good work kids wish network has done over the last 15 years. we ve helped hundreds of thousands of children, and that s what we re going to continue to do.
i m not going to be doing any interviews. reporter: it is perhaps with good reason that the kids wish network don t wish to answer any of our questions. because they all involve how this tiny charity with a sympathetic name has taken in $127 million of your donations over the last ten years. yet according to the charity s own tax filings, it has used less than 3% of that money to fulfill the wishes of sick children. you heard right, less than 3%. that s not true. reporter: that s what is on the tax returns. we re very proud of the work we have done over the last 15 years. we ve helped hundreds of thousands of children, and that s what we re going to continue to do. reporter: year after year, kids wish network collects millions in donations. $22.8 million in one year, according to its most recent tax filing. this woman spent six months as a coordinator.