The Hub Project: A Foundation with a Lobbying Arm
Enter the Berger Action Fund, founded in 2007 as the Wyss Action Fund and perhaps the most unusual piece of the puzzle. Foundations are typically wary of associating themselves with 501(c)(4)…
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Math Lessons Are Racist,
as per the Gates Foundation
Left-leaning math instructors have bought into the ridiculous ideology that “rigid” (and practical) math instruction is “white supremacist” and has been set up to “oppress” minorities. Since practically everything is…
Left-Wing Financiers Stand by CAIR After Pro-Hamas Remarks
The top foundations financing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are refusing to rule out future support of CAIR even after the Capital Research Center alerted them to its executive…
The Cabin Road Foundation and Philanthropy’s “Charity” Problem
In 2021, the Cabin Road Foundation, a virtually unknown private foundation, briefly became a leading 501(c)(3) funder of two of the country’s most well-known environmental direct-action groups. The foundation's grantmaking…
The Gates Foundation’s Common Core Disaster
The Gates Foundation played a crucial role in making the vision of Common Core a reality. Yet after an entire decade of implementation, “no convincing evidence exists that the standards…
Left-Wing Foundations Funding CAIR
Left-wing foundations are the top organizational donors to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a controversial anti-Israel organization that critics accuse of spouting extremism and of having historical ties to…
The William T. Grant Foundation’s Funding of Critical Race Theory
The William T. Grant Foundation is a donor nonprofit that gives between five- and six-figure annual donations to universities and policy groups that in turn fund programs on controversial public…
The Open Society Foundation’s 2022 Grants Expose Arabella and Soros
In 2022, the Open Society Foundations gave $31,075,000 to the “Five Sisters”: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund. The Five Sisters are…
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Megaphones and Militancy
The Ford Foundation is filled with money earned a century ago by Henry Ford in gritty Dearborn, Michigan. But neither the family nor the automaker control it anymore. Decades ago,…
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Funding for Politics
In addition to all of the groups mentioned so far, Ford has given an additional $54 million since 2022 to several dozen other groups and causes involved in motivating and…