foreign funding

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #396: Congress Tackles Foreign Nonprofit Funding
Foreign influence in American nonprofit organizations. It’s real, it has influence on our public life, and Congress has taken note of it. Joining me to discuss the influence of foreign…
by Parker Thayer, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson, Scott Walter on February 17, 2026

Green Watch
Foreign-Funded Plastic Lawfare
A foreign charity funded by an Australian billionaire has paid an American law firm to represent four tax-exempt environmental activist groups in a lawsuit against a ExxonMobil to a special…
by Robert Stilson on March 31, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #358: Sixty Billion Foreign Dollars Go to College
Sixty billion dollars—that is the estimate of foreign funding of American universities that Americans for Public Trust released earlier this week. Of that $60 billion, $20 billion went to just…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on March 28, 2025

Philanthropy
A Conversation with the Quincy Institute’s Nick Cleveland-Stout (Part 1 of 2)
The former Fulbright Scholar and research fellow talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the new report he’s co-authored on the funding of American think tanks, the online repository of data…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 12, 2025

Philanthropy
A Conversation with the Quincy Institute’s Nick Cleveland-Stout (Part 2 of 2)
The former Fulbright Scholar and research fellow talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the upward trend in foreign funding of American think tanks, the applicability of the Foreign Agents Registration…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 12, 2025

Philanthropy
Quincy Institute Webinar to Explore Think-Tank Funding
On Tuesday, February 18, at noon Eastern time, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft will host an hour-long webinar, “Think Tank Funding in America.” Last month, Quincy published an new…
by CRC Staff on February 11, 2025

Book Profile
Foreign Agents and American Nonprofits
Casey Michel’s book explores, among other things, the growing problem of foreign funding of U.S. nonprofits in order to exert political influence. Addressing this issue might be the best initial…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 29, 2025

Commentary
Linda McMahon to Education May Choke Foreign Influence Operations on Campus
Beyond expected opposition from teachers unions and others entrenched in the current educations system, Linda McMahon, President Trump's nominee for secretary of education, will need to address foreign influence and intrigue…
by Sarah Lee on January 27, 2025

Philanthropy
BEST OF 2024
Politicized, Progressive Big Philanthropy
Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 30, 2024

Philanthropy
Updated List of Various Ideas to Reform Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
During the past several years, The Giving Review has tried to conscientiously track contemplated or proposed ideas to reform philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Again acknowledging its partiality and anticipating…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 19, 2024