Elizabeth Walsh, a spokeswoman for Stamford-based AmeriCares, said the organization received $10 million in contributions, not including donated supplies.
The whole event involved more than 50 people and the cost to the hosts was about $1,600, Mr. Cirino estimated, not including donated supplies (Mast Brothers chocolate for the desserts) and prep space (courtesy of the Brooklyn Kitchen).
Even so, the renovation, which Ms. Leibrock says cost just under $600,000 (not including products donated by manufacturers), includes some nifty universal-design features: a computer-controlled Proliphix thermostat, which can be adjusted from the road, a wheelchair or bed.
The completed project cost an estimated $15,000, not including the services donated by Networked Now and Intrech Communications, which maintains the system's start-up Web page.
That number does not include money donated to the Robin Hood Web site, nor money donated over the telephone by millions of people who watched the show around the world, Mr. Saltzman said.
It did not include money donated by the UN, international government aid or assistance from NGOs.
But that number does not include money donated online or via telephone to the Robin Hood Foundation, a charity that is distributing the money to aid groups.; organizers predict that the total will easily top the $35 million raised after the Sept. 11 attacks by the Concert for New York.
These government grants do not include weighty sums donated by private citizens around the world.
Mr Cain will struggle to do that.If anything, the fund-raising reports understate the poorer candidates' financial disadvantage, since they do not include the money donated to "superPACs" on their richer rivals' behalf.
It also does not include an additional $115,000 or so that he donated to national candidates and parties since 2004.
