Nearly $200,000 raised by Gawker in hopes of obtaining the notorious Rob Ford crack video has been split evenly between four Canadian charities, with each using their share to help curb drug addictions or crime.

The total amount — $201,199 — was hit with $16,416 of processing fees before being cut into four equal cheques and mailed over the border in August. The four charities have since found apt ways to use the money.

The Somali-Canadian Association of Etobicoke will use their $46,000 to start a program geared at keeping Somali youth out of Toronto gangs and away from drugs.

“We’re going through a troubled time in the Somali community,” said the organization’s executive director, Osman Ali. “This money will let us hire two people to go to the high schools . . . to tell these Somali youth that there’s another way, another life.”

Fifteen honoraria will be created for Somali youth mentors who will help teens with homework and give them peer-to-peer counselling, Ali said.

Toronto’s Somali community became part of the story after the Star reported that the video, which appeared to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine, was being shopped around by Somali drug dealers.

But the crowd-sourced money is not enough for the organization to start the proposed program, which Ali says will cost $202,000. The City of Toronto and the Ontario Trillium Foundation are in talks with the charity to make up the outstanding $156,000, but neither has confirmed if, or how much, they can contribute, Ali said.

The three other groups that received the donations are the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Unison Health and Community Services and the Ontario Regional Addictions Partnership Committee.

The South Riverdale Community Health Centre will use their share of the Rob Ford Crackstarter to help people with “substance use issues,” a representative told the Star.

Unison used the money in similar fashion, funneling it into their harm reduction program.

“That was a condition of the donation, that it goes to programs that work with substance users,” said Michelle Joseph, the CEO of Unison.

The Ontario Regional Addictions Partnership Committee (ORAPC) will pay to train certified counsellors to work one-on-one with Native people living with addictions in Ontario.

“For us, it’s going to be used for certified training of Ontario NNADAP workers,” said Autumn Johnson, the Ontario Regional Addictions Partnership Committee Coordinator.

NNADAP, the National Native Alcohol and Drug Alcohol Abuse Program, works closely with the ORAPC to treat Aboriginal people with substance abuse issues.

Gawker launched the online fundraiser in May after news broke that two Star reporters, Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle, and Gawker editor John Cook watched a video of the mayor smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine.

The campaign reached its goal of $200,000 in just 11 days, even surpassing it by an extra $1,199.

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However, Gawker eventually lost communication with the video’s seller. In early June, the source reportedly told the gossip site that the video was “gone.”

The decision to donate the funds was made public in mid-July.