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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic To Defund Charities

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By Ellis Simani Verified
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. U.S. Treasury via Wikimedia Commons. When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April oncontroversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood — the flow of donor dollars. Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status. Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities

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By Ellis Simani Verified
| Omaha Daily Record Verified
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood — the flow of donor dollars. Not because it was convicted or because the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status. Not even because individual donors stopped writing checks.
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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities

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By Ellis Simani Verified
| ProPublica Verified
Reporting Highlights Philanthropy’s Gatekeepers: Donor-advised fund sponsors control $327 billion in giving, granting them vast power to decide which charities can receive donor dollars. Selective Defunding: Major sponsors froze grants to the Southern Poverty Law Center following an unproven indictment while continuing to fund other institutions facing severe legal scrutiny.
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