Big Philanthropy’s Lost Children
Brooke Orr, the protagonist of Rumaan Alam’s captivating recent novel, Entitlement, lands what she thinks is a great new job as a program officer at a big New York philanthropic foundation. The…
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The Southern Environmental Law Center and Its Misanthropic Donor
One lesser-known environmentalist group bringing in nearly as much revenue as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club is the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), a left-of-center environmentalist 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #347: Texas Battles DEI
The incoming second Trump administration has vowed to take on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in the federal government and in federally supported programs. In that, the incoming administration is…
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DOGE and the Department of Labor
In recent years the U.S. Department of Labor has routed millions of dollars under various grantmaking initiatives to nonprofits that would most accurately be characterized as left-wing activist groups. In…
Pro-Terrorism Groups to Protest Trump Inauguration
Two overlapping coalitions of pro-terrorism groups are planning protests in Washington, DC, on January 20 when President Donald Trump is inaugurated for his second term. The groups involved include endorsers…
Thoughts on Philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in Second Half of 2024
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving…
Anti-Energy Grants Should Be in the DOGE Crosshairs
The Ford Motor Company’s electric vehicle division regularly loses as much per sale as most Americans are willing to pay for any type of vehicle. While Ford’s leadership should be…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #346: New Year, New Administration, New Nonprofits
Well, 2025 is here. And while it came in rather tragically in the South – and we do extend our condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack in New…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.