Philanthropy, grants, influence & accountability

Follow the money and the decision

A grant can improve access to health care, education or civil rights while also concentrating agenda-setting power. A harmful outcome deserves investigation even when a donor funds beneficial work elsewhere. The amount spent alone cannot establish intent, social value or responsibility for a later act. These pages connect specific records to specific claims.

What the evidence can establish

This collection does not establish that the named donors collectively directed violence or intended social disorder. A grant record establishes a funding relationship within its stated scope. Responsibility for a particular harmful act requires further evidence about instructions, knowledge, control, assistance and applicable law. Allegations, organisational responses and court findings are identified separately.

Foundations, donors and technology support

1. Ford Foundation: priorities, influence and grant evidence
2. Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy: identifying the actual funder
3. Gates Foundation: health funding, priorities and institutional power
4. Microsoft nonprofit grants: access, eligibility and dependence
5. Open Society Foundations and Soros: grants, advocacy and scrutiny
6. Rockefeller Brothers Fund: targeted grants and public influence
7. W.K. Kellogg Foundation: children, communities and grant choices

Money, influence and accountability

1. How grant money moves: donors, sponsors and recipients
2. Comparing philanthropic benefits, harms and grant proportions
3. How grants influence education, research and media
4. Policy influence, lobbying and corporate self-interest
5. Lawful protest, violence and evidence of financial responsibility
6. Holding foundations & partner organizations accountable
7. Due diligence, sanctions checks and repairing harm

Recipients, relationships and investigation

1. CAIR: national origins, chapters and local responsibility
2. American Muslims for Palestine: structure, leadership and contested claims
3. Tax filings: tracing grants without inventing a money trail
4. Across borders: grants, campaigns and different legal systems
5. People and partnerships: who can decide, and who must answer?
6. A citizen’s method: checking a grant and pursuing a remedy

How to use the profiles

Read the grant year and exact legal recipient before comparing organisations. Historical leadership is distinguished from current responsibilities. Tap a profile image or identity icon to enlarge it. A person’s appearance here identifies a documented professional role, not responsibility for every activity of a recipient.

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