https://www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/oh-captain-my-captain
> Southern Poverty Law Centre's legal hopes rest on an international smear campaign
...
> So, taking the Edward Charles Foundation as an example, SPLC cannot outright say something like “SEGM are funded by the Koch Institute” - because there is no evidence of that. All they can say is that in the same tax year as the Edward Charles Foundation received $1.3 million from Koch, the Edward Charles Foundation gave $100k to SEGM. That’s all - and all they do is present these numbers near each other, and thereby strongly imply a financial connection between the Heritage Foundation and SEGM, without actually saying so - which then, in the hands of activists like Reed becomes definitive. There’s nothing here but insinuation - and seemingly false, since according to this Undark report, it was an individual donor who gave money via the Edward Charles Foundation, who simply wishes to remain anonymous:
> The donor, a 68-year-old woman from California who asked to remain anonymous because she feared harassment, described herself as a non-religious feminist who had supported Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
> However, in the case of American Online Giving Foundation, Fidelity Investments and Vanguard the accusation of “shared funding streams” becomes quite staggering hypocrisy. These are huge foundations, collectively worth $21 billion annually, that make thousands and thousands of donations every year, not only to dubious organisations like Alliance Defending Freedom or Family Research Council, but also to SPLC themselves.
> - In 2020/21 the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gave SEGM $363,500, while also giving SPLC $4,065,459.
> - In 2020/21 Vanguard gave SEGM $22,000 and SPLC 45 times more: $1,084,650
> - In 2020/21, The American Online Giving Foundation gave SEGM just $15,201 and SPLC over 130 times more: $1,995,272
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