Some of New Venture Fund’s projects are even hierarchies within hierarchies, like the Civic Engagement Fund. The Fund is a “nonprofit civic incubator” housed within an incubator. In reality, it’s…
A decade ago, Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation was looking for a short phrase to put before the following fact: “Of the 202 outside organizations spending money to…
Little is known about what kind of projects NEO Philanthropy sponsored in its early days, but according to Michele Lord it was always intended to serve as an incubator for…
CAIR doesn't exactly say. That is actually understandable, because it allows them to leave it open to broad interpretation. One of their supporters was honest enough to define the term…
This article originally appeared in RealClearPolitics on June 14, 2019. In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump took the unusual step of pledging to choose his Supreme Court nominees from a…
There’s no shortage of wealthy environmentalist groups angling to keep Alaska from making use of its natural resources, usually by exploiting fears of pollution from the proposed Pebble mine, a…
The left-wing agitation group MoveOn.org held a rally on May 16th outside of Union Station in Washington, D.C., to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which it called “hateful.”…
Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced a bill to regulate so-called “dark money.” The definition of this term is often slippery. A New Yorker reporter wrote a famous book blaming the…
Media projects organized under the nonprofit tax code are not particularly new. Venerable organizations including the conservative magazine Commentary (founded 1945), the labor-left publications In These Times and Mother Jones…
This article originally appeared in Law and Liberty on May 1, 2019. To those who know the history of American conservatism, it is a familiar and oft-told story. Oversimplifying:…