Celebs’ charity cases

Charlie Rose

The Charlie Rose Foundation has distributed about half of the $424,000 it took in from 1999 to 2015, a re- view of its latest available tax filings shows. It had $218,365 in its coffers at the end of 2015. The foundation received donations from Harvard and Stanford universities and Texas Children’s Hospital, which contributed $15,000 in 2005. Rose interviewed Lance Armstrong at the An Evening with a Legend event to benefit the hospital’s cancer center that year. “In lieu of an honorarium, he asked that we make a donation to his foundation,” a hospital spokeswoman said. But instead of spreading the wealth, Rose’s foundation doled out just $100 in 2005 — to the Vance County Rescue Squad in Henderson, NC, the town where the broadcaster grew up. The foundation gave out no money in the next two years.

When the nonprofit started making grants again in 2008, it gave to the fire department in Bellport, LI, where Rose’s sprawling waterfront home is worth as much as $3 million and where at least two women have alleged Rose made unwanted advances on them.

But it didn’t give much — just $50 to the volunteer firefighters. The foundation gave $50 again in 2009 before upping its donation to $5,000 in 2012.

From 2008 to 2015, it gave gifts to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital on Long Island, New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan and the Humane Society of New York.

It also funded several organizations in Henderson and Rose’s alma mater, Duke University. The gifts ranged from $500 to $5,000.