Code Pink

Foundation Watch
The Private Investments of Private Foundations: Philanthropy’s “Dark Money”?
The IRS instructs private foundations to attach a detailed schedule of investments to their annual publicly available Form 990-PF. Some, however, do not include meaningful detail on how their vast…
by Robert Stilson on February 17, 2022

Foundation Watch
The Private Investments of Private Foundations: Incongruous Investments
Investment portfolios shouldn’t be battlefields for ideological conflict, but many foundations—and particularly the activist groups they fund—are increasingly choosing to make them so. This can result in a marked disconnect…
by Robert Stilson on February 17, 2022

Foundation Watch
The Private Investments of Private Foundations: Capitalism for Me, But Not for Thee
The specifics of a given foundation’s investments—indeed, whether those investments are properly disclosed and itemized at all—is rather less relevant when that foundation’s grantmaking evidences wholesale antagonism to market capitalism…
by Robert Stilson on February 17, 2022

Foundation Watch
The Private Investments of Private Foundations: Depoliticize Philanthropy
The point here is not that foundation investments should be politicized. They should not. Foundations should, however, abide by what appear to be unambiguous IRS transparency instructions and be prepared…
by Robert Stilson on February 17, 2022

Organization Trends
Divest from the War Machine and Radical ESG Activism
At its most extreme, public divestment campaigns can even seek to alter governmental policy and global geopolitics. Case in point, a campaign called Divest from the War Machine aims to…
by Robert Stilson on November 19, 2020

Article
Brett Kimberlin and the Threshold Foundation’s radical ties
What do self-described “communist” Van Jones, his good friend Arianna Huffington, radical philanthropist George Soros, the Threshold Foundation, and the Tides Foundation all have in common? They all are connected…
by Matthew Vadum on May 30, 2012

Blog
Pro-Terrorist Code Pink Raising (Tax Exempt) Money to Overthrow Egyptian Government
According to an article by Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King over at Andrew Breitbart’s newest website, Big Peace, the anti-American, pro-Communist, pro-terrorist group Code Pink for Peace is…
by Matthew Vadum on February 4, 2011

Organization Trends
Code Pink: The Women’s Anti-War Movement
The group Code Pink has seized the leadership of women activists opposed to the war in Iraq. Mixing radical feminists and pacifists with Old and New Left Marxists, Code Pink…
by Professor John J. Tierney on December 1, 2006