Sheldon Whitehouse

Philanthropy
Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Tax-Exempt Nonprofits and Politics
The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance’s Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight has announced that it has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, May 4, to examine “Laws and Enforcement Governing…
by Michael E. Hartmann on May 2, 2022

Organization Trends
WaPo Fact Checker Carries Water for Leftist “Dark Money” Group Behind Biden’s SCOTUS Pick
One aspect of President Joe Biden’s pick for the coming Supreme Court vacancy isn’t up for debate: Whatever her credentials, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the “dark money” left’s choice…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 23, 2022

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for November 2022
In December 2021, we began to assess the tax filings related to “Zuck bucks”—Mark Zuckerberg’s gift to the 2020 election to help tilt the vote toward Biden—and received a great…
by Sarah Lee on January 20, 2022

Commentary
The New (Old) Court-Packing Plan
Wild allegations about a “shadow docket” are meant to lay the groundwork for further politicization of the court.
by Sarah Lee on January 12, 2022

Commentary
Read “Virginia’s Dirty Trick, Dark Money and Sen. Whitehouse”—CRC’s Letter to the WSJ Editor
Lauren Windsor, a co-conspirator in the Lincoln Project’s attempt to fan the flames of racism and deceive voters in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest, is executive director of American Family Voices, a…
by Scott Walter on November 10, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Committee Hearing Debacle
The Ford Foundation gives well over $100 million per year to programs that advance policy and political wins for the Left and Democratic politicians, yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Senator Cancel Culture
The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Hard Left Turns
Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Dark Roads Through Arabella
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

CRC in the News, Organization Trends
The Radical Origins of Black Lives Matter
Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, joins Mark Bauerlein the podcast to discuss “dark money” and his First Things article, The Founders of Black Lives Matter, and the…
by Scott Walter on August 13, 2021