Form 990

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Episode #317: Disclosing Foreign Grantmaking
What efforts are American nonprofits funding overseas? By and large, we don’t know, and federal disclosure laws are no help because they don’t require American nonprofits (other than private foundations)…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on May 17, 2024

Organization Trends
The Need for Foreign Grant Disclosure by Nonprofits
The nonprofit sector has a major transparency problem—one that is aptly illustrated by the network of foundations and other nonprofits linked to pro-China megadonor Neville Roy Singham and his wife…
by Robert Stilson on January 9, 2024

Philanthropy
Require Nonprofits to Disclose Their Foreign Grantmaking
Currently, nonprofits are required to publicly identify their domestic grant recipients, but not their foreign ones. This should not be the case—all grantees should be disclosed—but the Internal Revenue Service…
by Robert Stilson on September 12, 2023

Special Report
Understanding and Examining the Political Activities of Tax-Exempt Organizations
Response from Capital Research Center to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means  Request for Information on…
by Scott Walter on September 4, 2023

Philanthropy
Some Suggestions for Improving the Form 990
Each year, tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations and foundations are required to file returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Most of these groups file Form 990, while § 501(c)(3) private foundations…
by Robert Stilson on March 28, 2022

CRC in the News, Organization Trends
ActBlue: The Left’s “Dark Money” Portal
On the Bill Meyer Show, Hayden Ludwig discusses ActBlue, the biggest “black money” fundraising arms of the Left. In 2020, ActBlue pulled in $407 million and distributed it to hundreds…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 7, 2022