Who Funds that?

Is it, or at least should it be, charitable to fund political-advocacy protest over controversial sociopolitical issues? Our colleague Robert Stilson calls it “megaphone philanthropy,” and perhaps the prototypical practitioner of “megaphone philanthropy” is the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the $800 million funder of some of the most radical activists within American politics’ Overton Window. Robert joins us to discuss Marguerite Casey Foundation and its “megaphone philanthropy.” 

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Megaphone Philanthropy

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: “Social Justice Philanthropy”

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: A Focus on Group Identity

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: Left-Wing Grantmaking

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: Thoughts and Questions

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NewsGuard: It’s a teachers-union approved tool purporting to rate information sources on how “nutritious” to one’s information diet they are, but the teachers’ union seal of approval should lead readers to question just what the NewsGuard “Nutrition Label” is actually rating. Joining us to discuss NewsGuard and its links to the left is Illinois-based conservative activist John Tillman. 

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NewsGuard primes children in public schools for life of leftist activism

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: The Nutrition Label

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Vitamin Deficient Nutrition

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: History-Making Hoaxes

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Disclosure

Championing opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.

NewsGuard

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You’ve heard of Mike Bloomberg; those longer in years might remember Tom Steyer; deep readers of Capital Research Center might remember Fred Stanback; the billionaire environmentalist donor is a repeating figure. But you’ve probably not heard of C. Frederick Taylor, a reclusive California billionaire who drives millions to the environmentalist movement. Joining us to discuss Taylor, his Sequoia Climate Foundation, and the effect he’s having on environmental policy is our Capital Research colleague Ken Braun. 

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The Sequoia Climate Foundation: The “Secretive U.S. Vulture Fund”

The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Following Fred’s Money

The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Funding of Anti-Energy Radicals

The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Climate Colonialism

The Progressive International: Members

C. Frederick Taylor

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The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to ensure public access to federal government documents, including written communications by senior officials. But the law has been wantonly circumvented; perhaps most notably by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” email server, but more recently it has come to light that aides of former National Institutes of Health official and de facto COVID lockdown czar Anthony Fauci openly wrote about their FOIA circumvention. Joining us to discuss FOIA, how officials try to evade it, and what can be done about it is veteran journalist (and member of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame) Mark Tapscott.

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Now Will The FOIA Get Some Real Teeth?

EcoHealth Alliance

Peter Daszak

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Note: This episode contains discussions of subjects that may not be suitable for children. Parental discretion is advised. 

Everybody’s doing it—sex education. And as American sexual mores have grown more permissive, the organizational institutions devising sex education curriculums have pushed the Overton Window of sexual permissiveness to its maximum. Joining us to discuss the rise of contemporary sex education and the institutions behind it is Kali Fontanilla, Senior Fellow at the Capital Research Center.

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: The First Formal Sex Ed

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Since the Sexual Revolution

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: What’s Best for the Kids

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Are There Any Solutions?

SIECUS Is Pushing Sex Ed for “Social Change” in Our Nation’s Schools

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change)

Social Justice Unionism: Pushing Planned Parenthood’s Propaganda

Advancing After Getting Education Right

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This week we cast our eye to the Pacific Coast, with inquiries into two major left-wing funders in the Golden State. First, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is suing the Tides Foundation; even as we say “Let them fight,” we must also ask what these two major left-wing institutions are fighting about. And then we introduce the California Endowment, one of many major left-wing grantmakers of which the average listener might not yet have heard. Joining us to discuss these major California institutions is Thomas Buckley, senior fellow at the California Policy Center.

https://californiaglobe.com/fr/blm-sues-tides-foundation/
https://thomas699.substack.com/p/pennies-for-health-care-millions
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/california-endowment/
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-foundation/

What efforts are American nonprofits funding overseas? By and large, we don’t know, and federal disclosure laws are no help because they don’t require American nonprofits (other than private foundations) to disclose their grants to organizations outside the United States. But that may change, as Congress considers legislation to reform “Schedule F” on the nonprofit tax return. Joining us to discuss the proposal is our colleague Robert Stilson, one of the loudest voices calling for the change.

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Require Nonprofits to Disclose Their Foreign Grantmaking

The Need for Foreign Grant Disclosure by Nonprofits

Smucker Foreign Grant Reporting Act Receives Unanimous Support in Committee

People’s Support Foundation (PSF)

People’s Welfare Association (PWA)

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To say the federal government is merely “broke” is a gross understatement; as of recording the US Debt Clock shows the federal debt at over $34.7 trillion with the running annual deficit at nearly $2 trillion. While federal entitlement spending drives the growth in debt, the discretionary decisions of the Biden administration are very much not helping, as a new report from the Heritage Foundation shows. In short, the Biden administration is using a suspiciously expansive reading of the authorities delegating power from Congress to the Executive Branch to pursue “Whole of Government” Everything-Leftism policies at great public expense. Joining us to discuss his report is David Ditch, senior policy analyst at Heritage.

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Funding Leftism, Making Power Grabs: The Biden Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism

Explaining “Everything Leftism”

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If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard the name “Arabella Advisors” before—the management company that sits at the center of a network of left-wing “dark money” advocacy nonprofits. Now, the story of Arabella Advisors, its network, and its influence is told in a volume authored by Capital Research Center’s president Scott Walter, imaginatively titled Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. Scott joins us this week to discuss the book.

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Arabella Book

Written Testimony on Extreme Environmental Activist Groups

Donors to the Arabella Advisors Network

Shedding Light on Governing for Impact

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I’m fond of saying—it’s in my Twitter bio—that “there’s always a labor angle.” From bad MLB umpiring to anti-anti-Hamas demonstrations, Big Labor is there. So I am the least surprised person to discover that the left-wing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) activist investing movement is backstopped in part by and operates in service of Big Labor and its Everything Leftist agenda. Joining me and my colleague Robert Stilson, who studies the ESG movement for Capital Research Center, is Vinnie Vernuccio of the Institute for the American Worker.

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Unions using ESG to control workers — and drain Americans’ retirement savings

REPORT: Big Labor’s Push to Force Investment Managers to Ignore Fiduciary Duty and Promote Unions

As You Sow

20 Years of ESG Activism

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