InfluenceWatch Podcast 377: Ford, Failure, and Fallout: Lessons from Big Philanthropy’s Overreach

After widely publicized revelations of highly ideological nonprofits receiving federal funds and spending them on highly ideological projects, the Trump administration (and now, through the “rescissions” package and “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed before Congress went on its August district work period, also even Congress) has started cutting off some of those nonprofit-led projects. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? Mike Hartmann, longtime conservative philanthropoid and director of Capital Research Center’s Center for Strategic Giving, joins us to discuss.

• The American Enterprise: The New Era for Nonprofits
• The Giving Review: Eight things to know about Big Philanthropy and the populist reaction against it
• HistPhil: The New Populist Conservatism and Civil Society
• The Giving Review: A self-protective “deep state” in the nonprofit industrial complex