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…
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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…
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…
The Rise and Decline of Big Philanthropy in America
For most Americans, charitable giving begins by asking: How can I help? What do they need? How can I make a difference? They would never think to ask: How much am I required…
“Charitable Election Rigging”
Parker Thayer discusses his new report “How Charities Secretly Help Win Elections” on The Charlie Kirk Show. The Everybody Votes campaign—the largest and most corrupt “charitable” voter registration effort in…
REPORT: How Charities Secretly Help Win Elections
The Everybody Votes campaign—the largest and most corrupt “charitable” voter registration effort in American history—may have decided the 2020 presidential election and could decide 2024. Commissioned by Clinton campaign chairman…
Scott Walter Talks “Dark Money” and the DISCLOSE Act
There is no set definition of “dark money.” Even in Senate hearings on “dark money” where a legal definition would be expected, the loudest complainers refuse to offer a definition.
Legislation Against Politicization
U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald’s newly introduced STUDENT Act—the “Stopping Teachers Unions from Damaging Education Needs Today” Act—would, among other things, amend the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) federal charter to prohibit…
The Ford Foundation: A Case Study in Chinese Cooperation and Money
what is the relationship between the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs and the large nonprofits it oversees. And how much does this seep into or influence foreign nonprofits—such as the…
A Conversation with the University of Oregon’s Renée A. Irvin
The economist and scholar of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the definition(s) of “dark money,” and her recent article, “How Dark Is It? An…