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The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy issued a report that reveals some disturbing connections between conservative foundations and evangelical political movements. Strategic grants are being made by the foundations to help evangelical Christians promote messages about family values, traditional marriage, school prayer, the Ten Commandments, and more.

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”The report’s findings [Funding the Culture Wars: Philanthropy, Church and State] raise important questions related to the public accountability of religious nonprofit organizations—especially those that engage in electioneering or the policymaking process,” says Jeff Krehely, deputy director of NCRP. “Questioning their activities is a great taboo within the nonprofit sector, but as these organizations grow in financial strength and become more politically active, they merit serious and careful examination and discussion.”

• Organizations that fight against gay marriage rights, including Focus on the Family the Family Research Council, and Exodus International, received approximately 10 percent of the total grant monies studied in Funding the Culture Wars.

• Forty one percent of grants studied were given as general operating support, an effective strategy employed by right-wing foundations to build the advocacy capacity of their grantees.

• Of the grant dollars devoted to international mission work, $24.6 million were used to proselytize, while only $13.3 million were used for humanitarian assistance and aid.

• The organization receiving the most in grant dollars in the study, the Campus Crusade for Christ International, is also one of the nation’s largest charities, with total annual revenues of approximately $400 million. As a religious organization, however, it is not required to file an annual tax return with the IRS, despite receiving significant tax breaks as a nonprofit organization.

 

[michel]

Unfortunately, the same happen with charity donations; that is why I rarely give money to charities, but am willing to give my time.