In March 2022 MSI joined a coalition of organizations demanding abortion be decriminalized worldwide. But history may came to see the move as the desperate last stand of a dying…
“We shape our buildings,” Winston Churchill said in 1943, “and afterwards they shape us.” Foundations are not government agencies, of course, but they are meant to serve the public. Although…
The IRS instructs private foundations to attach a detailed schedule of investments to their annual publicly available Form 990-PF. Some, however, do not include meaningful detail on how their vast…
Investment portfolios shouldn’t be battlefields for ideological conflict, but many foundations—and particularly the activist groups they fund—are increasingly choosing to make them so. This can result in a marked disconnect…
The specifics of a given foundation’s investments—indeed, whether those investments are properly disclosed and itemized at all—is rather less relevant when that foundation’s grantmaking evidences wholesale antagonism to market capitalism…
The point here is not that foundation investments should be politicized. They should not. Foundations should, however, abide by what appear to be unambiguous IRS transparency instructions and be prepared…
The “dark money” network created and run by Arabella Advisors is perhaps the most powerful and, until recently, the least-reported-on player in Washington politics. Tracing the Arabella network’s donors is…
The Capital Research Center broke the news on liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right, which advocate for carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations to address the supposed…
In Virginia, Democrats tried to ensure a McAuliffe win and a subsequent retention of power in the state and U.S. Senate by using the same tactic they used in the…
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…