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A new report from the Investigative Journalism Foundation is making claims against the Oilers 50\/50 raffle, and team ownership is pushing back.<\/p>\n
50\/50 raffles are popular across North American sports, a fundraising effort where 50% of money goes to charity, and 50% is awarded to one winner. However, the percentages may be different with the Oilers.<\/p>\n
Investigative Journalist makes major claim against Oilers ownership involving 50\/50 raffle<\/p>\n
An investigative journalist has found that the Oilers raffle doesn’t exactly follow the explicit percentages of a 50\/50 raffle. Millions of dollars is instead being paid to a company owned by Oilers Entertainment Group.<\/p>\n
Here’s what we found when we looked into the Edmonton Oilers 50\/50, which the club bills as the biggest in professional sports.<\/p>\n
Between 2021 and 2024, the foundation running the raffle paid more than $81M to an Oilers subsidiary called Win50 for what it calls license and rights fees. That’s millions of dollars more than was available for charitable activities over that time.<\/p>\n
– IJF<\/p>\n
Shockingly, the IJF found that only 19.6% of the 50\/50 raffle went to charity in 2024.<\/p>\n
The statement essentially told fans not to worry about where the other 30% of the money goes.<\/p>\n
Percentages don’t help kids and families in need – dollars do. By focusing on expense ratios and purposely ignoring the millions of dollars in legitimate operational costs covered by WIN50, the IJF misleads readers about our how our 50\/50 operates and our overall charitable impact.<\/p>\n
– Myrna Khan, EOCF<\/p>\n
Needless to say, when the percentages are dealing with tens of millions of dollars supposed to go to charity – they should matter quite a bit. That money is given by fans with the expectation of helping charity, not the suits at Oilers Entertainment Group.<\/p>\n
Hopefully there will be some real change and a statement coming to rectify the situation, or there could be a significant drop off in the Oilers 50\/50 this year. Then, the dishonest actions of OEG will be the one to actually hurt charitable contributions.<\/p>\n
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