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Latest: Two charities associated with the world’s largest far-right Hindu group have raised more than US$24.4 million over a five-year period through US grants that allow the donor to be anonymous, Bellingcat can reveal: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10...

bellingcat.comUS DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-RightDonor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.

6/10/26, 4:15 pm123 reposts202 likes

Debbie Lefkowitz

@foglandia.bsky.social

Not really grants at least that is not how I think about money donated by individuals to nonprofits, bad ones or good ones.

web_rant

@webrant.bsky.social

US oligarchs funding foreign fascism. bsky.app/profile/bell...

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com

bellingcat.comUS DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-RightDonor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.

Bellingcat

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is widely considered the ideological parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a former RSS worker, is one of its most famous supporters.

Bellingcat

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The RSS was previously banned in India three times over its alleged role in violence, and almost a hundred US politicians, both Democratic and Republican, recently pledged not to take funding from RSS-linked entities.

Bellingcat

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In US public filings for two US-registered non-profits that appeared to have ties to the RSS, documents detailed donations from 2020 to 2024 of at least US$24.4 million from 34 organisations that manage donor-advised funds (DAFs), making up 20.7% of their total received contributions.

Bellingcat

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Much of the grant spending by these two charities was to organisations or individuals in India or the South Asia region, in the five years from 2020 to 2024. Ekal USA declared $33.7 million in grants for education projects in India, while Sewa reported giving $29.7 million to groups in South Asia.

Rajiv Chopra

@rajivchopra.bsky.social

The best part is that the RSS, a bloody fascist, patriarchal and retrograde organisation, is not even registered in India.

mecha-sheep.bsky.social

@mecha-sheep.bsky.social

Reminder that US Hindus are the religious group with the highest level of education. Much higher even than US Atheists and US Jews. One more proof that formal knowledge is not about intelligence and even less about wisdom. It helps, but a well educated nazi is still a nazi.

Tony den Haan

@tuxick.bsky.social

Fascists are taking over the world.