The “eco-Right” is CRC's name for “the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and…
Matt Bai's firsthand account of the multifront internecine conflict between the Democratic Party’s grassroots and establishment between 2004 and 2006 has many interesting takeaways. It’s a well-written, entertaining read, but…
Today, the Democracy Alliance bills itself as “a preeminent network of donors dedicated to building the progressive movement in the United States.” Individual alliance members, known as “partners,” are expected…
Although a major part of the Democracy Alliance’s mission is to foster “the infrastructure necessary to advance a progressive agenda for America,” it has always maintained a clear and simultaneous…
Independent nonprofits have always been the primary types of organizations that the Democracy Alliance has recommended to its funding partners. Nearly all the groups identified in The Argument as among…
Beyond the Biden administration’s string of unforced errors that have helped create and exacerbate the crisis on the U.S. southern border are organizations and people using the migrants as pawns…
America has always had its patricians, but as the word suggests, they saw themselves as patriotic “fathers” of their country, and their wealth and prestige were tied up in their…
So which politically active organizations are the biggest beneficiaries of community foundation money? To sift through tens of thousands of grants and avoid cherry-picking recipients, we identified nonprofits that are…
Community foundation grants ultimately originated with (mostly) anonymous donors, not the community foundations themselves, which serve as conduits for donor-advised-fund account holders. The largest community foundation givers on this list…
Who does philanthropy serve? Until we answer that question—one that our forebears understood—community foundations, private foundations, and 501(c) groups are immaterial. Philanthropos is the love of mankind rooted in the…