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NEW: Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud. We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.

propublica.orgWall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund CharitiesA quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...

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The issue is whether the charitable organizations are retaining their 501(c)(3) status. If so, a donor-advised fund is just a conduit for donations. And btw, some 501(c)(4) 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 orgs abuse donor-advised funds to make political donations to dark money orgs because DAFs get less scrutiny.

Thanks to ProPublica for your much needed work. The MSM is captured and incapable of resisting the current unlawful administration. This is just another example of the rich picking the wrong side to fight.

Checking that list of corporations; moving SPLC to the top of my charity list. When, oh when, will we value helping those who have nothing again? When will we decide to give because it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO?