Favre s charity, Favre 4 Hope, donated more than $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation from 2018 to 2020 while he was trying to raise money for a new volleyball stadium, according to tax records obtained by ESPN.
According to text messages in a court filing obtained by Mississippi Today, former Gov. Phil Bryant helped Brett Favre obtain welfare funds in order to help build a new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi.