A six-month investigation into Russell Wilson's Why Not You Foundation was published by the USA Today, which detailed that it spent twice as much money on its employees than it contributed to charitable activities. 

Wilson's foundation reported it spent $600,000 on charity and $1.1 million on employee salaries and benefits from 2020-2021, according to federal tax records obtained by USA Today. In the simplest of terms, that means the Why Not You Foundation spent 21.3 cents of every dollar on charitable activities in 2020 and 27.2 cents of every dollar on charitable activities in 2021. Over the past eight years, only 39.6 cents of every dollar was spent on charity, per tax documents.

Ryan Tarpley, the CEO of the foundation who also works for Ciara and Russell Wilson’s family office, made more than $200,000 annually over the past two years, while executive director Carly Young earned more than $150,000 annually during the same timeframe.