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=same as nccf?=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/christian-charity-gave-more-than-50-million-to-hate-groups/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/christian-charity-gave-more-than-50-million-to-hate-groups/</a>The National Christian Foundation is America’s eighth largest public charity, but it doesn’t build houses, educate children, feed the hungry, or provide other goods or services one might commonly associate with a charity. It’s also not a household name like the Red Cross, but that doesn’t prevent it from having vast influence. According to a new investigation from <a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/03/19/americas-biggest-christian-charity-funnels-tens-of-millions-to-hate-groups/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Sludge</a>, the far-right, evangelical NCF “has donated $56.1 million on behalf of its clients to 23 nonprofits identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.”<div class="p1_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These nonprofits include multiple anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate groups. In fact, as reporter Alex Kotch points out, Inside Philanthropy has said that NCF “is probably <a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/10/3/big-money-quiet-power-a-look-at-the-national-christian-found.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the single biggest source of money</a> fueling the pro-life and anti-LGBT movements over the past 15 years.”<div class="p2_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In addition to not being a direct service charity, the NCF is also not a conventional foundation that a wealthy donor uses as a vehicle to grow and then give away their money to multiple other charities over time. Instead, it’s a donor-advised fund, offering its Christian donors “expert guidance and creative giving solutions,” Kotch writes.<div class="p3_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Helaine Olen, writing in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/donor-advised-funds-deduction-charity/548324/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Atlantic</a>, calls these donor-advised funds a “waiting room for charitable donations,” in which anyone, not only the wealthy, can place money into the fund, let it grow, and then have it distribute the money gradually to organizations of the donor’s choice.<div class="p4_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">According to Kotch, these funds allow their clients “immediate tax breaks on donations.”<div class="p5_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They also give individual donors who pay into the fund anonymity. While Sludge was able to use publicly available tax findings to determine which organizations NCF funded, the names of the fund’s donors stay hidden.<div class="p6_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The biggest recipient of NCF funds, according to Sludge’s investigation, is Alliance Defending Freedom, a network of lawyers, who, Kotch writes, “have supported criminalizing homosexuality, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/07/27/anti-lgbt-hate-group-alliance-defending-freedom-defended-state-enforced-sterilization" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">sterilizing transgender people</a>, and claimed that gay men are pedophiles.”<div class="p7_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kotch continues:<div class="p8_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; border: none !important;">Alliance Defending Freedom took in $49.2 million from NCF from 2015-17. ADF received $46.3 million in contributions and grants during the 2016 fiscal year (from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016). It got $16.8 million from NCF in the calendar year of 2015, meaning that, if these years were aligned, NCF’s donations would have represented over one-third of ADF’s annual contributions.<div class="p9_16" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></blockquote>The Family Research Council, which the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-research-council" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> says “often makes false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science,” including linking homosexuality to pedophilia, is another frequent beneficiary of NCF funds. Sludge found it received $5.3 million from 2015 to 2017.<div class="p10_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While anti-LGBT organizations are the primary recipients of NCF’s funds, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant organizations also benefit:<div class="p11_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; border: none !important;">Anti-Muslim groups ACT for America ($98,000), American Freedom Law Center ($40,000), David Horowitz Freedom Center ($40,000), and Virginia Christian Alliance ($3,600) have received thousands from NCF since mid-2014, and anti-immigrant nonprofits American Border Patrol ($100) and The Remembrance Project ($2,500) also got NCF funding.<div class="p12_16" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></blockquote>Donor-advised funds, in general, are not required to have policies addressing hate groups. As Kotch explains, “these giant funds absolve themselves of any responsibility, saying that as long as the Internal Revenue Service has granted 501(c)(3) status to an organization, it’s fair game.”<div class="p13_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At least one expert Sludge spoke to believes funds like NCF are funding hate groups intentionally, and could, if they chose, deny a client’s request to fund them.<div class="p14_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aaron Dorfman, president and CEO of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, told Sludge, “With the dramatic escalation of violence and intimidation by white nationalists and right-wing extremists, it’s way past due for sponsors of donor-advised funds to cut off any dollars flowing to hate groups.” And, he continued, “they have every right to exercise discretion by refusing a donor’s request to fund a hate group.”<div class="p15_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NCF did not respond to Sludge’s requests for comment. Read the entire article <a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/03/19/americas-biggest-christian-charity-funnels-tens-of-millions-to-hate-groups/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">here</a>.ref<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/donor-advised-funds-deduction-charity/548324/">https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/donor-advised-funds-deduction-charity/548324/</a>...This makes donor-advised funds less than popular among many in the philanthropic community, who have come to believe that their deposits would otherwise be put to immediate use by a charity. “They’re becoming holding tanks for charitable dollars,” complains Alan Cantor, a philanthropic consultant based in New Hampshire. “The money goes out at a very leisurely pace.”<div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid; grid-template-areas: " a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px;"><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;">Defenders of the funds dispute that, pointing out that approximately 20 percent of money in the funds is disbursed annually—higher than the 5 percent that foundations are legally required to give out. If people want some flexibility in choosing where their money goes, what’s the harm? “They provide a way for people who want to give away money but don’t know precisely who they want to give it to a chance to make their decisions about how to get the tax benefits in the year they which they get the money, and then specify where the money is going in a later year,” says Joel Fleishman, the director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University.But there’s another problem with this model, at least from the perspective of charities: When money arrives from a donor-advised fund, a charity often doesn’t know who actually made the donation. This makes philanthropic organizations’ jobs harder, because they can’t cultivate repeat donations. On the other hand, this can be a lure to the giver: For smaller-scale donors, it means fewer solicitations (via both email and physical letters), and for big-money donors, it’s one fewer organization hounding them for money.<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;">The anonymity that donor-advised funds provide is problematic on another level too. It allows givers to obscure their identities. For example, according to The Daily Beast, Project Veritas, the right-wing organization whose mission is to reveal alleged left-wing media bias, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-okeefes-big-money-donors-revealed" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'11',r'None'" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;">received</a> $381,505 from Donors Trust, the right-wing donor-advised fund notoriously supported by the Koch family, and $52,050 between 2011 and 2013 from the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. The white nationalist Richard Spencer’s nonprofit, the National Policy Institute, <a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/03/22/white-nationalist-charitys-form-990-tells-strange-tale-involving-community-foundation/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'12',r'None'" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;">also received</a> donor-advised–fund money prior to the IRS’s revocation of its tax-exempt status. “There’s no direct line between a controversial donor and a controversial cause,” Cantor says.</div></div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--3" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center;" /></div><div data-section="full" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-pos="boxinjector-d" class=" ad-boxinjector-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="blah" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; display: grid; grid-template-areas: " a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-3" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px;">Yet some of these issues seem like they would not be hard to address. One way to prevent people from putting money into the account, taking advantage of the tax deduction, and then not getting around to distributing it would be to impose a deadline before which all deposits must be disbursed. But when former Michigan Representative Dave Camp <a href="https://www.steptoe.com/resources-detail-9388.html" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'13',r'None'" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;">introduced tax-overhaul legislation in 2014</a> that would have required that funds be distributed within a five-year period, the bill went nowhere because, at the time, tax reform did not have sufficient traction.<div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">The problem of anonymity is tougher to solve. That’s because the way the tax code governs donor-advised funds, the money actually belongs to the fund once the donor turns it over, with an agreement that the fund will honor the donor’s wishes as long as the ultimate beneficiary is an officially recognized charity. But as a result, the gifted money is reported as coming from the fund, and if donors don’t want to identify themselves, they don’t have to.It’d be nice if the government could at least step in to ensure that charities know where they’re getting their money from. Donor-advised funds are not likely to go away anytime soon—a study released by Fidelity Charitable last year <a href="https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/docs/the-giving-gap.pdf" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'14',r'None'" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;">found</a> that donors under the age of 50 are much more likely than those over 50 to use donor-advised funds—so tending to problems like these will only become more important as this way of giving gains popularity.<section class="c-letters-cta" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" /></div></section></div><div class="p15_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">refrojc<a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/10/3/big-money-quiet-power-a-look-at-the-national-christian-found.html">https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/10/3/big-money-quiet-power-a-look-at-the-national-christian-found.html</a> National Christian Foundation is one of the biggest donor-advised funds in the United States, yet it has a remarkably low profile—at least in the secular nonprofit world. NCF’s grants totaled a whopping $960 million last year, a figure that has grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. Its rise is more evidence of the growing popularity of donor-advised funds among many donors, as well as the attractiveness of DAFs that are mission-driven.NCF's grantmaking also offers a window into the powerful world of conservative Christian philanthropy. While many of the funds that flow through NCF benefit thousands of churches, ministries and charitable groups, this is also a major conduit of cash that benefits a range of causes on the right. What's more, as with other DAFs, the donors behind this giving are almost entirely anonymous. NCF got its start as the brainchild of faithful financiers Terry Parker, Ron Blue, and Larry Burkett. Back in the early 1980s, Parker and his colleagues saw the need for a community fund with a Christian mission. NCF was the result, a place where well-heeled churchgoers could focus their almsgiving and be sure it went to the right causes.But Parker and team didn’t stop there. NCF’s genius lies in its lawyerly drive to open up all avenues of giving, tapping every asset type, and make each one pay tax-day dividends. NCF’s mission reflects that ambition: “mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity.” The late Terry Parker and current president David Wills elaborate further <a href="http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_philanthropy/complex_giving" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">in this interview with Philanthropy Roundtable</a>.NCF clearly has the “mobilizing resources” part down to a science. But let’s not forget that key word: biblical. NCF is, to be plain, a fundamentalist Christian organization. <a href="https://www.nationalchristian.com/faith" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">In its statement of faith</a>, it affirms that “the entire Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God; the only infallible rule of faith and practice.” So it isn’t surprising to find a lot of resources going to the “family values” movement.To hear it from left-wing sources, working to sway policy and culture is about all NCF does. In fact, this is an unfair charge, since such giving comprises a minority of NCF's grantmaking. But the ideological activities of this grantmaking giant are still substantial and they warrant discussion.At Inside Philanthropy, we've <a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/girls-women-grants-funding/2015/1/16/the-national-christian-foundation-is-a-top-backer-of-crisis.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">written in the past</a> about NCF’s support for crisis pregnancy centers, which seek to steer women away from abortions, and which have been criticized for their misleading advertising. But such funding is just the top of a moral values grantmaking iceberg at NCF. Beneath lies a who’s who of conservative groups that have received money through NCF. Among other things, this funder is probably the single biggest source of money fueling the pro-life and anti-LGBT movements over the past 15 years.Leading grantees have included the Alliance Defending Freedom, an umbrella organization for right-wing legal groups that’s gotten over $51 million from NCF since 2001, and Campus Crusade for Christ (over $45 million since 2001), which also used to employ NCF founders Terry Parker and Ron Blue. Then there's Focus on the Family (over $49 million) and the Family Research Council (over $19 million).Other beneficiaries include the American Family Association (over $13 million), the Louis Palau Association (over $11 million), Oral Roberts University (an astounding $90 million plus), and Promise Keepers (over $2 million). Another grantee is the Discovery Institute (over $2 million), a major proponent of intelligent design. The list goes on—in fact, NCF's 2014 990 is a staggering 17,775 pages. Add to that the many millions NCF channels toward right-wing and libertarian organizations unaffiliated with Christianity. Some highlights: the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Federalist Society, Judicial Watch, Accuracy in Media, and many others.As is the case with most donor-advised funds, it’s not easy to determine where the money came from, or who donated what to whom. NCF touts privacy as one of its virtues to prospective donors, which it shares with DonorsTrust, the major secular right-wing DAF. A lack of transparency can shield donors from scrutiny as they support causes that many might call into question. On the left, places like Tides also move money with few fingerprints.In NCF’s case, we do know a bit about a few major donors. One is David Green, billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby and ardent supporter of family values causes. Another is the McClellan Foundation, which has given well over $100 million to NCF over the past fifteen years. The Bolthouse Foundation and the Friess Family Foundation, two more Christian givers, have donated on a princely level as well.But as for the bulk of NCF's revenues, which have totalled over a billion dollars in recent years, your guess is as good as ours.Related:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/girls-women-grants-funding/2015/1/16/the-national-christian-foundation-is-a-top-backer-of-crisis.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">The National Christian Foundation Is a Top Backer of Crisis Pregnancy Centers</a></li><li style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://david-callahan-hfwl.squarespace.com/home/2016/3/3/inside-donorstrust-what-this-mission-driven-daf-offers-phila.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">InsideDonorsTrust: What This Mission-Driven DAF Offers Philanthropists on the Right</a></li><li style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/8/18/the-new-collection-basket-will-crowdfunding-take-the-place-o.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">The New Collection Basket: Will Crowdfunding Take the Place of Religious Charity?</a></li><li style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/12/9/darkness-grows-time-for-a-new-conversation-about-philanthrop.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(11, 0, 128) !important;">Darkness Grows: Time for a New Conversation About Philanthropy and Transparency</a></li></ul>
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</div><div style="">At a 2017 conference hosted by the white nationalist hate group American Renaissance, Peter Brimelow, spoke about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.“Crime in this country is ethnically variegated,” <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a> Brimelow, president of the white nationalist hate group the VDARE Foundation. “There’s ethnic specialization in crime. And Hispanics do specialize in rape, particularly of children. They’re very prone to it, compared to other groups.”Blatantly racist statements like these are commonplace for Brimelow and for Jared Taylor, president of <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-renaissance" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">American Renaissance</a>, two of the most notorious white nationalist leaders in the United States.Two years after the conference, for the first time, a prominent conservative charity would fund both VDARE and the nonprofit behind American Renaissance. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DonorsTrust" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">DonorsTrust</a>, a donor-advised fund sponsor that manages and disperses wealthy conservatives’ charitable funds anonymously, gave over $1.5 million to the VDARE Foundation in 2019, according to <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/03/donorstrust-and-donors-capital-pumped-at-least-90-million-into-right-wing-causes-in-2019/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">tax records</a> obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). That amount is nearly three times larger than VDARE’s total <a href="https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/223691487_201812_990_2020020717127576.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">2018 revenue</a>, meaning that, with DonorsTrust’s help, the hate group was poised to significantly expand its operations last year.DonorsTrust also gave $10,500 to the New Century Foundation, the nonprofit that finances American Renaissance, which publishes a website, videos, and podcasts and puts on annual conferences that draw a coterie of the country’s most prominent white nationalists. That donation appears to be DonorsTrust’s first to the group.“DonorsTrust is a community of donors devoted to creating a better future,” states the group’s <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6591976/DonorsTrust-Donor-Prospectus.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">2019 donor prospectus</a>. “Our donors support charities they believe protect our nation’s constitutional liberties and strengthen civil society through private institutions rather than with government programs.”DonorsTrust and its sister nonprofit, Donors Capital Fund, are favorite funding vehicles of Republican billionaire families such as the DeVoses, Kochs, and Mercers. Donors deposit money into individual accounts, managed by DonorsTrust or Donors Capital Fund, and direct the fund managers to deliver their money to the nonprofits of their choosing, a process that shields the donors’ identities from the public. Donor-advised funds offer a “<a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/02/19/americas-biggest-charities-are-funneling-millions-to-hate-groups-from-anonymous-donors/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">double tax benefit</a>” to the wealthy; when donating appreciable assets like stock or business shares into their individual funds, donors get a capital gains tax break as well as the typical charitable tax deduction.DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/03/donorstrust-and-donors-capital-pumped-at-least-90-million-into-right-wing-causes-in-2019/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">distributed $165 million</a> in total grants last year, $90 million of which went to support right-wing think tanks, advocacy groups, litigation centers, media outlets, extremists, and climate deniers, CMD found.Lawson Bader, president and CEO of DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund, told CMD, “DonorsTrust–like the vast majority of donor-advised funds–allows its donor-advisors and not the DAF itself, to create a list of preferred and legally recognized charitable and public-interest organizations that they individually wish to support.”However, the organization’s <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6591976-DonorsTrust-Donor-Prospectus.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">donor prospectus</a> states, “Grants from accounts are made upon request to board-approved charities.” This indicates that the DonorsTrust <a href="https://www.donorstrust.org/who-we-are/directors-and-staff/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">board</a> must review and approve of each potential recipient. That board consists of Bader and multiple others with close ties to conservative advocacy groups and academic programs funded in part by Charles Koch.Bader did not respond to follow-up questions about the approval process and why he and the board approved two white nationalist groups.As he defended his organization’s substantial funding of white nationalist hate groups, Bader invoked a 1958 court case that protected the identities of donors to the Black civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).“The Supreme Court has made it clear that releasing names of private givers poses a direct threat of retaliation,” Bader said. “This occurred most notably in 1968 (sic) when the court struck down Alabama’s attempts to gain access to the NAACP’s donor list during the heyday of the civil rights movement.”“We are extremely troubled by the findings in your report,” Michael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), told CMD. “Here, you have extremely wealthy activist donors funneling money into white nationalist groups. These are groups that traffic in the type of dehumanizing racist pseudoscience that has inspired both terrorism and government-sanctioned horrors, like so-called child separation.”SPLC has been tracking hate activity since 1971, when it was founded “to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all.”“The sick joke, of course, is that the white nationalist movement in the U.S. poses as if they are fighting against elites,” said Hayden. “Now we know that elites are fighting alongside white nationalists, putting the lives of everyday people in danger.”<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px;">A White Nationalist Castle</h2>It is likely that DonorsTrust’s 2019 donation of $1.5 million helped VDARE <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/19/west-virginia-tourist-hub-rejects-vdares-negative-message" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">purchase an historic castle</a> in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia for $1.4 million without a loan in February 2020. As the SPLC documented, local residents were disturbed by VDARE’s presence and feared that it would reinforce negative stereotypes of West Virginia, which is 95 percent white and one of the least diverse states in the country.“The castle gives VDARE close access to Washington, D.C., where they have White House allies like [senior policy adviser] <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/stephen-miller" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephen Miller</a> and [communications officer] <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/10/21/trump-official-brought-hate-connections-white-house" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Julia Hahn</a>,” said Hayden. “These donations help to explain where they might have gotten that kind of money.”Brimelow came to prominence in 1995, when he published Alien Nation, a book that argued that America has historically been dominated by white people and should remain that way. In 1999, he founded what would become the VDARE Foundation.For years, VDARE has attacked immigrants and people of color in the U.S., and it has also trafficked in antisemitism.“The [Jewish] objective has been control of economic resources and political power,” <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> antisemite Kevin MacDonald on VDARE’s website in 2006. “One example: overwhelming Jewish support for non-traditional immigration, which has the effect of weakening America’s historic white majority.”MacDonald was describing a classic tenet of white nationalism around the world: that Jews destroy white society by facilitating immigration by people of color, a trope often referred to as “white genocide.”Writing on VDARE.com two years later, American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor, who personally avoids overt antisemitism, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">echoed</a> this general sentiment, claiming that “our rulers and elites welcome replacement by aliens,” and “this is a disease that is killing us.”In recent years, VDARE has continued its toxic influence on the country.“VDARE in particular defended the deadly Unite the Right rally staged in Charlottesville, Virginia in August of 2017 and has expressed sympathies for the writings of white supremacist murderers, like the man who killed 23 people in an El Paso WalMart in 2019,” said Hayden. “Additionally, VDARE published vile, racist conspiracy theories related to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to fuel the chaos we see now across our country.”On YouTube, VDARE appeared to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/vdare/youtube-approved-vdare-channel-defended-el-paso-shooters-manifesto-and-sandy-hook-conspiracy" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">defend the racist manifesto</a> published by the El Paso shooter. YouTube permanently <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/vdare-suspended-from-youtube-and-this-time-its-permanent/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">banned</a> the channel in August 2020.Brimelow and Taylor have a close relationship and are both affiliated with the racist “alt-right” and its figurehead, Richard Spencer. And Brimelow has ties to the Trump administration beyond Miller and Hahn; Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-adviser-larry-kudlow-hosted-publisher-of-white-nationalists-at-his-home/2018/08/21/f418a76c-a55e-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">hosted Brimelow</a> at his home for his birthday party in 2018.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px;">The “Black-on-White Crime” Myth</h2>Taylor’s racist ideas have inspired deadly hate crimes.He and American Renaissance created the “black-on-white crime” myth, a theory popular among white nationalists that, in recent years, spread online and inspired deadly terror attacks, including Dylan Roof’s 2015 murder of nine Black parishioners at a South Carolina church. Roof read about the myth via the website of the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/council-conservative-citizens" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Council of Conservative Citizens</a>, another white nationalist group with close ties to Taylor.This myth is premised on a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/20180614/biggest-lie-white-supremacist-propaganda-playbook-unraveling-truth-about-%E2%80%98black-white-crime" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">false argument</a>, as stated by Taylor, that,: “The United States has neither a unique ‘culture of violence’ nor inadequate gun laws. It has a high rate of violent crime because it has a large number of violent black criminals.”“Taylor is at the center of white supremacist propaganda,” Heidi Beirich, the former head of SPLC’s Intelligence Project, <a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/02/19/americas-biggest-charities-are-funneling-millions-to-hate-groups-from-anonymous-donors/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">told</a> this author in 2019. “He is THE purveyor of the black-on-white crime myth that has inspired so much violence. His ideas led to Dylann Roof and lord only knows how much more hate crime.”After Roof’s terror attack, Taylor condemned the murders but defended both the Council of Conservative Citizens and his organization’s hateful propaganda, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">saying</a>, “Our site educated [Roof]. Our site told him the truth about interracial crime.”Reporters have revealed few donations to the New Century Foundation, a relatively small nonprofit that took in $381,000 in 2018 and less than that the year before. But Sludge <a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/11/22/nations-biggest-charity-is-funding-influential-white-nationalist-group/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">exposed</a> over $100,000 in contributions by Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, a donor-advised fund sponsor affiliated with Fidelity Investments, over the 2016 to 2018 fiscal years.This year, the New Century Foundation got some extra help from taxpayers. According to Accountable.us, the nonprofit <a href="https://searchppp.com/company/new-century-foundation-oakton-va-22124" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">received $51,600</a> in Paycheck Protection Program funds, which were approved by Congress to help businesses during the pandemic-caused recession.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px;">Past Donations to Hate Groups</h2>While its recent donations to white nationalist groups are new, DonorsTrust has a history of funding groups that the SPLC considers anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ hate groups.In <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/03/donorstrust-and-donors-capital-pumped-at-least-90-million-into-right-wing-causes-in-2019/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">2019 alone</a>, DonorsTrust donated $916,000 to the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, $163,000 to the anti-Muslim David Horowitz Freedom Center, and $50,000 to the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies, among other contributions to hate groups and other discriminatory organizations. In the five years prior, DonorsTrust DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund gave <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/01/22/koch-favored-donorstrust-keeps-funding-anti-muslim-anti-lgbtq-hate-groups/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">over $13 million</a> to organizations that express anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, or anti-LGBTQ sentiments, including more than $2.7 million to nonprofits considered hate groups by SPLC.The <a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/03/19/americas-biggest-christian-charity-funnels-tens-of-millions-to-hate-groups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer external" data-wpel-link="external" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">National Christian Foundation</a> has given the most money to hate groups of any prominent donor-advised fund sponsor. Several donor-advised funds that are not associated with any particular political ideology or religion, including Fidelity Charitable and Vanguard Charitable, which is linked to investment firm Vanguard, have also been funding hate groups for years.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>