The DVD sold fast and furious, but late actor Paul Walker’s charity got only a fraction of the $130 million payday from the movie studio.
Universal Pictures had promised to donate a “portion” of DVD and Blu-ray sales for “Fast & Furious 6” to Walker’s Reach Out Worldwide nonprofit in 2014. That portion turned out to be $1 million, which is less than 1 percent of the proceeds.
Walker starred in the “Furious” franchise — which has tallied $4 billion in revenues — with Vin Diesel.
He died in a November 2013 car crash with pal Roger Rodas. Walker, 40, was a passenger in the Porsche Carrera GT as the two left a Reach Out Worldwide event in California to raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Walker founded his charity in 2010 to help the victims of natural disasters, after participating in relief efforts in Haiti.
Donations to Reach Out Worldwide totaled just $20,000 in 2010. It never registered with the California Attorney General’s Office as required.
And despite Walker’s riches — his estate was a reported $25 million — his charity never took in more than $700,000 before his death.
Donations began to pour in after Walker’s death. The charity ended 2013 with $492,328 worth of contributions.
In 2014, the charity took in $1.9 million, including the donation from Universal and $100,000 from Kabam Inc., which produced the hit “Fast & Furious 6” video game.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia kicked in $7,276 and 20th Century Fox gave $5,000.
But Reach Out Worldwide’s charitable giving was underwhelming. It distributed $81,269 to the victims of tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma and the typhoon in the Philippines, its tax filings show.
A spokesman for the group said it was satisfied with Universal’s contribution. He said the group also spent $109,222 — in addition to the $81,269 — in 2014 in “boots on the ground deployments to disaster zones.”
Walker’s brother, Cody Walker, joined the organization as its president in 2014 and received a $50,000 salary. The other board members are Gary Margolis, an accountant who is paid to do the group’s books, and Ron Dorfman, Walker’s lawyer.