InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
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InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
DOGE and the Department of State
This week the State Department’s biggest nonprofit grantee, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was reportedly cut off and was struggling to make payroll. NED was initially created to fight…
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NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: The Nutrition Label
According to its vision statement, NewsGuard Technologies provides “transparent tools to counter misinformation for readers, brands and democracies.” But while the firm portrays itself as Captain America resisting the enemies…
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The Left’s Nonprofit Journalism Empire: The Nonprofit News Sector
In 2019 and 2021, Capital Research Center surveyed the changing media landscape, taking note of the increasing role of nonprofit and benefactor-driven “for-loss” media investments that are beginning to replace…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Free Money Versus Free Enterprise
At the end of 1976, Henry Ford II, resigned from the Ford Foundation board of directors. In his resignation letter, he advised the foundation's board, “I'm just suggesting to the…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Revolutions and Bullhorns
For nonprofits that really want the Ford funding spigot wide open, it is difficult to understate the importance of portraying supporters shouting through bullhorns, engaging in street demonstrations, and preaching…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Crime and Democracy
Claiming that their preferred flavor of multi-whatever democracy has never existed and pledging to put it in place is clearly a winning message for aspiring grantees. Perversely, Ford’s philanthropoids also…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Shaping the News
Ford grants are also showered upon those who help inject left-wing messages into media and culture. Since the beginning of 2023, those in charge of Henry’s money have shipped out…
Capital Research, May/June 2024
In the May/June 2024 issue of Capital Research magazine, ProPublica weaponizes investigative journalism, the Marguerite Casey Foundation goes radical, Vesta brings home the green-energy pork from the Inflation Reduction Act,…