The Colomb Foundation's Financial Troubles

We're hearing from the founder of an Acadiana non-profit, which could owe the state hundreds of thousands of dollars. State Treasurer John Kennedy is ordering 36 non-profits across the state to pay up, because they haven't reported how they spent your tax dollars. That includes the Colomb Foundation of St. Landry Parish.

It was established in memory of Dene Colomb, who was killed by serial killer Derek Todd Lee, and also in memory of her mother, who died of breast cancer.

But according to the state treasurer, the foundation hasn't reported how it spent $300,000 in taxpayer dollars.

We've been digging further, turns out it's not the first financial troubles for the foundation.

According to audit reports, the foundation has not been financially compliant since 2007. That means the foundation has not been reporting their income and expenses to the state. The foundation promotes itself as a non-profit, but according to the IRS it's non-profit status was revoked in May of 2010 because the agency failed to provide the necessary paperwork 3 years in a row.