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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

Foundation Watch
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Megaphones and Militancy
The Ford Foundation is filled with money earned a century ago by Henry Ford in gritty Dearborn, Michigan. But neither the family nor the automaker control it anymore. Decades ago,…
by Ken Braun on September 7, 2023

Foundation Watch
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Funding for Politics
In addition to all of the groups mentioned so far, Ford has given an additional $54 million since 2022 to several dozen other groups and causes involved in motivating and…
by Ken Braun on September 7, 2023

Foundation Watch
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Big Labor, Big Government, Big Censorship
In addition to the nearly $100 million in grants noted thus far, another $92.1 million given out by the Ford Foundation since 2022 has specifically funded left-leaning labor, economic, and…
by Ken Braun on September 7, 2023

Foundation Watch
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Media and Climate Alarmism
Influencing the content of all the media we consume has been the purpose of at least $14.3 million in Ford grants given since 2022.
by Ken Braun on September 7, 2023

Foundation Watch
The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
This Is Who They Are
The Ford Foundation’s funding of a graphic novel portraying “how close we came to authoritarianism” cranks its left-wing audience into believing a complete lie about the nature of their policy…
by Ken Braun on September 7, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Improving Transparency
Speaking of the IRS—in 2012, the IRS’s own Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) published a report that recommended changes to the rules governing fiscal sponsorship. The…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Obscuring Finances?
To illustrate some potentially problematic applications of the fiscal sponsorship concept, this report will look at some specific nonprofit organizations that are acting as sponsors on a scale that is…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Incubation and the Tides Center
The above definitions emphasize fiscal sponsorship as a grassroots, community-level, activity. A different view of the concept comes into focus if one takes a top-down view of it, particularly considering…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: A Way to Start Nonprofits
In his celebrated book Democracy in America (1848), the French observer of the mid-19th century United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, praises Americans' aptitude for what he calls “the art of joining” with…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023