Organizations are not required to disclose donations by individuals as a matter of U.S. case law (NAACP v. Alabama). But groups can hide donations through fiscal sponsorship. For example, Students…
As we and colleagues at Inequality.org have recently been getting “together to discuss what’s gone awry in the current state of charitable giving and the incentives our tax system provides to donors,…
Since the Citizens United decision in 2010, the definition of “dark money”—which has always been vague—has broadened to include political money for which the original donor is not disclosed. The…
Senator Kaine mentioned that he doesn’t believe that the problem of dark money is more significant on the Democratic side than the Republican side. Without citing any dollar figures to…
In ten climate hearings, Democrats have never asked a single one of their witnesses about their receipt of dark money, let alone attempted to impugn their integrity or accused them…
After the hearing, a Democratic witness took part in an interview, which was published in The Guardian. She specifically said that she “suspected the evidence that Democrats take more dark…
Barre Seid’s bold contribution of $1.6 billion to the Marble Trust has set off a firestorm of condemnation and has engendered urgent calls for “reform” by the cognoscenti on the…
There's been a lot of talk in Washington about "dark money." Activist on the left love to use the term to paint conservatives as funders of shady backroom politics. But…
A few days after CRC president Scott Walter testified in a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Whitehouse sent a letter to CRC and two other nonprofits, asking…
Capital Research Center (CRC) President Scott Walter will testify at 3 p.m. ET, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, before Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency…