How the IAS Rewrote Its Own History: 20 Years of Fraud, Fundraising, and Obfuscation Under David Miscavige
How David Miscavige's fundraising arm erased religion, buried governance, and became a subscription empire.
David Miscavige walks the stage at an IAS Anniversary Event: The man behind the curtain of a global fundraising machine with no functioning board, no transparency, and no accountability. This is the public face of a 20-year fraud—backed by spectacle, sustained by silence.
Introduction
Over the past two decades, the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) has undergone a dramatic transformation, not in name, but in structure, purpose, and legal disguise. This post lays out what is now a well-documented timeline of how David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology evolved IAS from a spiritually justified membership body into a multi-jurisdictional shell operation designed to extract money, avoid scrutiny, and insulate the organization from liability.
This is not speculation. It’s grounded in digital evidence: Wayback Machine archives, state filings, legal disclaimers, and IRS-exempt language vanishing from public view. What follows is a timeline-style breakdown, cross-referenced with screenshots and legal flags, and formatted to serve as both:
A public exposé
A legal declaration in support of fraud, charity violation, or racketeering complaints
A documented call for IRS and California Attorney General review
Timeline of Fraud & Structural Disguise: 2003–2025
2003 – Early Site: Overtly Religious Purpose
The IAS website emphasizes its mission to support the “Aims of Scientology as originated by L. Ron Hubbard.”
Membership includes benefits like:
Discounts on training and auditing
Eligibility for scholarships
Exclusive access to “Impact” magazine
Legal relevance: Clear evidence of a transactional relationship, payments in exchange for services, violating IRS donation standards.
2005 – Fixed Prices and Commercial Structure
Website explicitly lists:
$500/year for Annual Membership
$5,000 for Lifetime Membership
Also introduces commission-based Field Disseminators (FSM model).
Legal relevance: Proves IAS is operating like a business, not a nonprofit. Payments are tied to spiritual rewards and advancement.
2011 – Dual Identity Emerging
Site still references Hubbard and the Aims of Scientology.
Simultaneously shifts focus toward “global humanitarian efforts.”
IAS Administrations starts appearing in footers.
Legal relevance: This is the turning point, religious identity is preserved in branding while backend legal structure begins to disappear.
2018 – Shell Begins to Formalize
IAS Administrations is controlling the site.
Still no public record of board members, financial disclosures, or nonprofit compliance.
All donations are processed through a Delaware nonprofit, with no visible oversight.
Legal relevance: Sets the stage for shell company operation, functioning without governance, violating both CA and DE nonprofit requirements.
2020 – Religious Identity Stripped from Public View
New homepage focuses entirely on secular language:
“Help Support Worldwide Relief”
“Humanitarian Programs”
Campaigns like “Truth About Drugs” and “Volunteer Ministers” dominate.
Legal relevance: Attempt to avoid regulatory scrutiny by hiding religious nature while continuing to use church-controlled assets and personnel.
2022 – Filing Contradictions in California and Delaware
IAS Administrations files new Statement of Information:
No board of directors listed
Controlled by outside legal firm (Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell)
Legal relevance: No functioning board = no legal oversight. Violates basic requirements of nonprofit law.
2023–2025 – Total Financial Obfuscation
Donation pages now list:
Credit card forms
“No refunds” policy
Statement that donations are not tax-deductible
All funds processed by IAS Administrations or US IAS Members’ Trust.
No audits, no transparency, no public accountability.
Legal relevance: This is textbook deceptive solicitation, donors are led to believe they’re funding humanitarian work when they’re funding a corporate religious machine with no disclosure.
Screenshot Citations
2003-2005 Membership Benefits Page
Screenshot: Membership entitled user to discounted training, Impact Magazine, and preferred access.
Legal Flag: Quid-pro-quo exchange = not a donation under IRS law.
2005 Rules Page
Screenshot: Annual = $500, Lifetime = $5,000.
Legal Flag: Structured pricing contradicts spiritual free-will donation model.
2020 Website Home Page
Screenshot: “Help Support Worldwide Relief” with donation tiers, but no mention of religious benefit.
Legal Flag: Shifts purpose and misrepresents spiritual roots, likely to evade nonprofit compliance.
2024 Legal Notice Page
Screenshot: IAS Administrations controls the site, but filings show no board.
Legal Flag: Shell entity with no governance managing millions of dollars.
Donation Forms (2023-2025)
Screenshot: Credit card processors, “not tax-deductible,” “no refunds.”
Legal Flag: Misleading donation language. Misuse of nonprofit status. Deceptive solicitation.
Why This Matters to the IRS and California Attorney General
Governance Failure: IAS Administrations, the processor of all funds, has no functioning board or officers on record. This violates the legal requirements of both Delaware and California nonprofit law.
Religious Cloaking: The IAS alternates between religious language (when convenient) and humanitarian branding (when under scrutiny). This allows it to evade IRS regulation while still selling spiritual benefits.
Donor Misrepresentation: Donors are led to believe they are supporting global human rights work, when in fact their money is going to internal Scientology operations with no external oversight or reporting.
Multi-Jurisdictional Laundering: Headquarters listed in the UK. Nonprofit formed in Delaware. Operations run from California. This triangulation creates confusion and prevents regulatory accountability.
Pattern of Deception: Over 20 years, the organization has concealed its governance structure, obscured the purpose of its fundraising, and erased its religious benefit narrative, not to evolve, but to hide.
Call to Action
If you are a former IAS member, Field Disseminator, or donor who:
Was promised spiritual benefits for money
Recruited others under commission-based schemes
Was misled about the use of your donations
...we want your sworn declaration. Your experience is evidence in a broader criminal structure designed and run under David Miscavige.
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I became the Lead Volunteer Minister for Santa Barbara Org in 2005. Linda McCarthy was the ED at the time (she was SO) and she raised money from parishioners in 2004 to send me to the Freewinds for VM training. The training was fluff about how the VFP (valuable final product) was to "help people" but really it was all about selling VM booklets to get people into the Org.
I can tell you that the IAS only paid for the very large tent and the SCN cross sticker that went on the side of the VM van that we had to "procure" ourselves. That large tent went up twice, one time to practice putting it up and another time at the fairgrounds when the wind almost upended the tent which could have led to fatalities. I still have nightmares about it. Most venues were 10x10 spaces, although you could get 10x20 spaces if you paid for 2 spaces. The smaller tent attachments were 16 x 16. So, the only thing the IAS paid for was the tent and it could not be used. Beckett and Cleve told me we should purchase a 10x10 tent. I raised the money for that too. Oh, and that sticker had to be peeled off the van because the sun made it brittle. I had to raise money to get new lettering put on the side of the van.
I got our local parishioners to pay the $16K for the van. I still have the list of donations made.
I was expected to get the tent up every weekend, but as Linda McCarthy can attest, there weren't that many fruit or beach festivals. I'd get the tent up about once or twice a month during spring, summer, fall, rarely winter. I had to fundraise for all of these events, to get gas money, to do repairs on the van that always seemed to break down (it got trashed when a team took it to NOLA after Katrina). Often, I'd just pay for the gas myself because I hated fundraising. The Treas Sec helped me out on getting people to donate for van repairs.
I also raised money to send about 8 VM's to Sri Lanka and Banda Ache after the tsunami in 2004. The IAS only showed up to take photos. As an aside, Heber Jentzsch went to Sri Lanka, and he looked healthy then.
When I was FSO Staff in 2010, during the IAS time, there was a push to donate, even among staff members. There was always someone who would push you to donate. You had to call friends and family to make donations (I never called anyone). At the time, my salary was $35 a week. This also happened on Miscavige's birthday; you had to give him a gift. I didn't agree. Tom De Vocht knows these things very well because years earlier, he was an exec at CMO Flag.