It has also received more than $65.9 million in private donations.

Over the last five years, the center has received nearly $600,000 in donations.

Most of the money came in small donations - $30 was the average - from some 250 friends, family members and companies.

And $100,000 more in donations is now on its way to the Republicans.

That seemed to helped bring the 12-fold increase in donations.

The team raised almost 20 million won in donations for Japan.

The rest of the money came in small donations, he said.

Without the change the increase in donations for 1997-98 would have been just under 7 percent.

The effort is being paid for with $5 million in private donations.

As of 2012, the organization had raised nearly $400,000 in donations.