One of the groups presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE donated to from his veterans fundraiser spends less than half of its incoming donations on programs directly benefiting veterans, The Washington Post reported.

The group, the Foundation for American Veterans, received $75,000. Trump announced the donation during a news conference Tuesday, where he announced which organizations would receive portions of the money he raised during an event earlier this year to benefit veterans organizations.

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In 2014, the foundation reportedly spent $2.4 million of its total $8 million budget on services directly benefiting veterans. It spent $3.5 million to pay professional fundraising companies and another $2 million on salaries and general expenses.

The group has shown a similar trend over the past several years, spending a greater amount of money on fundraising and other expenses than on programs directly helping veterans, according to the Post.

Associated Community Services, a fundraising contractor that has been used by the charity, has been given millions of dollars from the foundation over the past several years. In 2014, the company was paid $3.3 million by the foundation.

In 2014, the organization also spent nearly $250,000 on salaries for its three full-time members.

The Foundation for American Veterans has an "F" rating from CharityWatch and the Better Business Bureau issued an alert about the group in January, saying there was a "pattern and high volume of complaints and customer reviews" related to people receiving "a high volume of what they consider to be harassing phone calls" from the group.

In response, the president of the foundation issued a statement attributing the calls to "problems with our telemarketer and the voice mail system they have in place."

During the press conference on Tuesday, Trump said all of the organizations that received donations had been vetted.

"You have to go through a process. When you send checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars to people and to companies and to groups that you've never heard of, charitable organizations, you have to vet it," Trump said.

"You send people out, you do a lot of work."