The numbers are in for the Donald Trump Foundation’s donations in 2016. For the first time ever, he gave millions to veterans’ groups– per the January 2016 telethon he held to raise money for the vets instead of participating in a presidential debate.

In all, Trump gave away just over $3 million. But he did it using other people’s money: $1 million from Marvel Comics chairman Ike Perlmutter and wife Laura; $1 million from Las Vegas casino owner Phil Ruffin; $100,000 from daughter Ivanka Trump; $50,000 from backer and New York developer Steve Roth; and $50,000 from John J. Cafaro, an Ohio real estate developer who pleaded guilty in 2004 to federal charges of lying to the US government about a political donation.

This is the same way Trump has always operated his foundation. In past years I’ve reported that the money he gave to charity came from others, not from his own pocket.

The numbers of Trump’s 2016 donations don’t line up exactly with the numbers announced in July 2016 when the then presidential candidate had to reveal who was getting the money. And what’s telling about this is that almost none of the money came from him– it all came from those outside donations. In past years, the Donald J. Trump Foundation was rarely a donor to veterans’ groups at all.

There’s one strange footnote to the Foundation’s official Form 990 for 2016: they say made a donation to an unnamed veterans’ group in May 2016. But then the Trump Foundation discovered that that group was not eligible to receive funds. So they asked for the money back. But the vets’ group said they’d already distributed the money to other veterans’ charities.

Overall, almost none of the 32 vets’ groups which received the Ruffin-Perlmutter money never received donations from the Donald Trump Foundation before this year. Curiously, Trump himself cut back on all the regular charities he’s donated to in the past, save for New York’s Columbia Grammar Preparatory School, which his son Barron attended ($50,000). Otherwise, none of the foundations or charities that received the average $800,000 or $900,000 annually from the Trump Foundation received a penny.

For example, in 2015 Trump gave substantial donations to the Salvation Army, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Red Cross and so on. He even gave $100,000 to Comic Relief to help the homeless. Alas, one of the few holdovers was Columbia Grammar.

One other note: after the 2016 telethon, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks (now director of White House communications) said “money was still coming in.” In fact, no more money came in. These were the donors, period.

Here’s an update on the Wounded Warriors Project. They’ve been advertising pretty heavily on TV this week, so I wanted to catch up from their huge scandals from two years ago.

Back in 2015, the Daily Beast launched a stream of stories revealing crazy spending at the Wounded Warriors Project. By January 2016, both the New York Times and CBS published their own exposes that caused even more investigations. In March 2016, Wounded Warriors’ top executives Steven Nardizzi and Al Giordano were forced to resign.

But back in March 2016, the extent of the Wounded Warriors’ spending on salaries was not fully known. Everyone was working off of data from 2014-2015. It wasn’t until April 2017 that the group filed its Form 990 for 2015-2016. Now it’s become available and we can see what was really going on in the last year before most of the leadership was excised.

First: donations to Wounded Warriors fell by $70 million from 2015 to 2016. So WW cut their spending– not to themselves, but to the people who needed their money most. Grants to veterans’ groups fell precipitously– by over $50 million. The group cut its grants from $87 million to $35 million. That’s a dizzying drop. It surely must have been for veterans’ groups depending on donations.

Despite the incredible drop in giving, and in revenue, total Wounded Warriors salaries didn’t go down,  they went up– and rose over $6 million in 2015-2016.

When Steven Nardizzi was fired in March 2016, his listed salary from the prior year was $474,000. That number reflected a $100,000 increase from the prior year.

The newer filing, however, shows Nardizzi had given himself another $100,000+ increase-– to a whopping $604,551.

We also now know that Nardizzi’s partner in crime, Al Giordano, also ousted in March 2016, left making $420,905. In that Form 990, issued April 2017, five executives were making over $300,00 a year. Another half dozen were making over $200,000 a year.

We won’t know until next April what the new leadership and staff are making — or spending. But at least they know now that people are watching Wounded Warrior Project more closely than ever.

PS Want to make some last minute charitable contributions? My favorites: The Rainforest Foundation, Rosie’s Theatre Kids, Elton John AIDS Foundation, MusiCares, RUSH Philanthropic, Samuel Waxman Cancer Research, TJ Martell (in memory of Tony Martell), We Are Family Foundation, Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation, Coalition for the Homeless, God’s Love We Deliver, and the Salvation Army (in memory of Phil Ramone).