 Since its inception, the marathon claims to have raised in excess of $100 million for charities.In 2008 the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon.The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.