Not all New York athletes are getting whistled for shoddy charity work.
Knick forward Carmelo Anthony throws in significant cash — $837,200 in 2010 — to his foundation, which spent money to build a youth-development center in his native Baltimore and a practice arena at Syracuse University, where he played on the 2003 championship basketball team.
He was ranked No. 6 in 2006 on a list of 30 top celebrity philanthropists by The Giving Back Fund, a Los Angeles-based philanthropic-management firm.
Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter pitched in $526,249 to his Turn 2 Foundation in 2010. The group doles out hundreds of thousands to sponsor after-school and leadership programs in New York and Michigan, gives out scholarships and runs baseball camps.
Jeter teammate Mark Teixeira contributed $1 million and is assisting a fund-raising drive by Harlem RBI, an uptown nonprofit trying to build a complex with a charter school, low-income housing and a community center.
