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Philanthropy
A Conversation with the Buckeye Institute’s Greg R. Lawson (Part 2 of 2)
The Ohio state-budget expert and research fellow talks more to Michael E. Hartmann about his recent report on rulemaking nongovernment organizations (NGOs), different types of rulemaking NGOs, their various funding…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 13, 2025

Education Reform
Serving Illegal Immigrant Children While Ending the Incentives That Keep Them Coming
The United States cannot continue rewarding illegal immigration by offering free education, housing, and welfare benefits that many American citizens can’t access. Organizations like RCMA should not be receiving millions…
by Kali Fontanilla on March 10, 2025

Organization Trends
A Conversation with the Capital Research Center’s Robert Stilson (Part 2 of 2)
In considering any reform of fiscal sponsorship, “I think there’s a balance you have to strike,” Stilson tells me. “I’m not saying that fiscal sponsorship should be restricted meaningfully” or…
by Robert Stilson, Michael E. Hartmann on February 24, 2025

Philanthropy
A Better Charitable Act Is Cutting Tax Rates, Not Creating Another Tax Break
Do Americans need a tax incentive to be charitable? Economists have mixed opinions, but two senators believe so. Yet history has shown that there is little relationship between the charitable…
by Scott Hodge on February 17, 2025

CRC in the News, Government Accountability
The DOGE Files: Tracking the Insane Things Your Tax Dollars Are Paying For
CRC's Parker Thayer joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle on The Federalist Radio Hour to dive into the convoluted world of taxpayer-funded pet projects and analyze the effect…
by Parker Thayer on February 10, 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

Organization Trends
Might It Soon Be “a Later Date”?
Given the decrease of trust in the sector and serious questions about the sector is pursuing charity properly understood, the incoming administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 20, 2025

Philanthropy
Thoughts on Philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in Second Half of 2024
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 7, 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

Book Profile
Stinking Rich Pierces Myth of the Generous Billionaire
Carl Rhodes’ forthcoming Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire is among the better of several recent aggressive, populist, progressive critiques of, well, billionairehood, in and of itself.
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 18, 2024