Patrick Mahomes’ family started a fundraiser to honor Mahomes’ late grandmother, and the money hasn’t exactly been flooding in.
On the spectrum of successful fundraisers, the GoFundMe campaign started by Patrick Mahomes’ mother falls somewhere in the middle.
Randi Mahomes started a fundraiser with a goal of raising $15,000 for her mother, Debbie, who passed away last April. The money would go toward a scholarship fund to help students gain access to higher education; at the time of this writing, the GoFundMe campaign has only raised $5,500.
One needs only to look at Damar Hamlin’s fundraiser at the start of the year to see how quickly a community can come together in support and help raise money for an honorable intention.
On the other side, there’s Russell Wilson’s cheapskate foundation, which was found to have spent 24.3 cents of every dollar on charitable activities in 2020 and 2021.
Athlete-led foundations run the gamut of success and failure, and in Randi Mahomes’ case, her attempts to honor her mother through a GoFundMe hasn’t gone according to plan.
Patrick Mahomes’ grandmother’s GoFundMe falls embarrassingly short
Sources say it’s unclear as to why the fundraiser for Debbie Mahomes hasn’t been able to meet its desired monetary goal.
It may be due to factors out of the Mahomes’ family control.
Earlier this May, Patrick Mahomes younger brother, Jackson Mahomes, was arrested on sexual battery charges for an incident in February when he allegedly tried to forcibly kiss the owner of a restaurant in Kansas City.
In any case, may Debbie Mahomes rest in peace. Whether a scholarship is created in her honor, she should be remembered for who she was as a person and not for anything else.