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America's Biggest Christian Charity Funnels Tens of Millions to Hate Groups [View all]
http://readsludge.com/2019/03/19/americas-biggest-christian-charity-funnels-tens-of-millions-to-hate-groups/The far-right evangelical National Christian Foundation (NCF), which offers Christian donors expert guidance and creative giving solutions, is the fourth-largest donor-advised fund by 2017 revenue in the U.S., having raised over $1.5 billion that year. Such funds offer individual accounts to their clients, allowing clients to get immediate tax breaks on donations to these accounts and to direct NCF to disperse the money to the nonprofits of their choice, mostly churches and other Christian nonprofits, at their own pace. Clients donate through donor-advised funds anonymously, so even the Internal Revenue Service wont know their identities.
According to a 2017 Inside Philanthropy article, NCF is probably the single biggest source of money fueling the pro-life and anti-LGBT movements over the past 15 years. In 2017, NCFs donation to anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrant hate groups rose to over $19 million.
By far the biggest recipient of NCF donations is Alliance Defending Freedom, a large network of Christian extremist lawyers who have supported criminalizing homosexuality, sterilizing transgender people, and claimed that gay men are pedophiles. The group recently came out against congressional Democrats Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.
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America's Biggest Christian Charity Funnels Tens of Millions to Hate Groups [View all]
WhiskeyWulf
Mar 2019
OP
If they don't identify the "nonprofit" then they shouldn't receive tax deduction.
LiberalFighter
Mar 2019
#8
And always plenty of money to do so, from the "flock". They don't know/ don't care.
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2019
#18