Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Media Matters for America (view source)

Revision as of 13:40, July 15, 2012

1,884 bytes added ,  13:40, July 15, 2012
m
Reverted edits by Rick59 (talk) to last revision by Jpatt
Line 67: Line 67:  
California Attorney General Summary of Results of Charitable Solicitation by Commerical Fundraisers for Year Ending 2010</ref><ref>[http://www2.guidestar.org/ Media Matters 990 IRS Tax filing via Guidestar]</ref>  For 2009, Media Matters of America showed assets of $2,774,565 and income of $6,711,993.<ref>[http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/b/47-0928008/media-matters-america.aspx Media Matters 990 tax filings, 2003 - 2009]</ref>
 
California Attorney General Summary of Results of Charitable Solicitation by Commerical Fundraisers for Year Ending 2010</ref><ref>[http://www2.guidestar.org/ Media Matters 990 IRS Tax filing via Guidestar]</ref>  For 2009, Media Matters of America showed assets of $2,774,565 and income of $6,711,993.<ref>[http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/b/47-0928008/media-matters-america.aspx Media Matters 990 tax filings, 2003 - 2009]</ref>
   −
Since its inception, they've received over $50 million dollars in contributions from several sources including wealthy liberal activists such as [[George Soros]]<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Soros_gives_1_million_to_Media_Matters.html "Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters"], Politico.com October 20, 2010</ref> and hedge funds<ref>[http://nymag.com/news/media/david-brock-media-matters-2011-5/index3.html "If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven?"], By Jason Zengerle, ''New York Magazine'', May 22, 2011</ref>.  According to an indepth Daily Caller expose on Media Matters, "The list of Media Matters’ foundation funders, 120 in all, reads like a Who’s Who of the American progressive movement, including the far-left [[Tides Foundation]] ($4,384,702), George Soros’ [[Open Society Institutes]] ($1,075,000), the [[Ford Foundation]] ($966,466), the [[Sandler Foundation]] ($400,000) — endowed by subprime mortgage lenders Herb and Marion Sandler, who once bankrolled the embattled ACORN organization — and the [[Schumann Fund for Media and Democracy]] ($600,000), managed by longtime PBS host Bill Moyers and his son.
+
Since its inception, they've received over $50 million dollars in contributions from several sources including wealthy liberal activists such as [[George Soros]]<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1010/Soros_gives_1_million_to_Media_Matters.html "Soros gives $1 million to Media Matters"], Politico.com October 20, 2010</ref> and hedge funds<ref>[http://nymag.com/news/media/david-brock-media-matters-2011-5/index3.html "If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven?"], By Jason Zengerle, ''New York Magazine'', May 22, 2011</ref>.  Left-wing foundations have also been a rich source of funding as well, accounting for over $17 million in donations.  Below are the list of foundations who've helped to fund Media Matters over the years.  The data is culled from publicly available tax filings made by these foundations as of October 25, 2011.
   −
They also include the anti-George W. Bush organization [[MoveOn.org]] ($50,000), the [[Barbra Streisand Foundation]] ($85,000), the kids’ shoes-powered [[Stride Rite Charitable Foundation]] ($25,000), the [[Lear Family Foundation]] ($55,000) — endowed by the TV producer and People for the American Way founder Norman Lear — and the [[Joyce Foundation]] ($400,000), whose board of directors included [[Barack Obama]] from 1994 to 2002."<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/17/left-wing-foundations-lavish-millions-on-media-matters/#ixzz20hHYL2Bm "Left-wing foundations lavish millions on Media Matters"], The Daily Caller, 2/17/12</ref>
+
'''Top Foundations Donating Funds to Media Matters for America Operations''' (> $50,000):<ref>[http://www2.guidestar.org/ Guidestar database of IRS filings filed by non-profit organizations]</ref>
 +
 
 +
{| class="wikitable"
 +
|-
 +
!Foundation
 +
!Amount Donated to Media Matters
 +
|-
 +
|1. [[Bohemian Foundation]]
 +
| $2,325,000
 +
|-
 +
|2. [[Ford Foundation]]
 +
|  $1,945,000
 +
|-
 +
|3. [[Dyson Foundation]]
 +
|  $1,450,000
 +
|-
 +
|4. [[Gill Foundation]]
 +
|  $1,150,000
 +
|-
 +
|5. [[Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation ]]
 +
|    $1,125,000
 +
|-
 +
|6. [[Tides Foundation]]
 +
|    $946,276
 +
|-
 +
|7. [[Bauman Familly Foundation]]
 +
|      $600,000  
 +
|-
 +
|8. [[Schumann Center for Media and Democracy]]
 +
|      $600,000
 +
|-
 +
|9. [[Leland Fikes Foundation ]]
 +
|      $500,000  
 +
|-
 +
|10. [[Silicon Valley Community Foundation]]
 +
|        $428,000
 +
|-
 +
|11. [[Gruber Family Foundation]]
 +
|        $400,000  
 +
|-
 +
|12. [[Joyce Foundation]]
 +
|        $400,000
 +
|-
 +
|13. [[Marisla Foundation]]
 +
|        $370,000
 +
|-
 +
|14. [[Boston Foundation (aka TBF)]]
 +
|        $305,000
 +
|-
 +
|15. [[Lewis B. & Dorothy Cullman Foundation]]
 +
|          $300,000
 +
|-
 +
|16. [[Glaser Progress Foundation]]
 +
|          $300,000
 +
|-
 +
|17. [[Marin Community Foundation]]
 +
|          $300,000
 +
|-
 +
|18. [[Lotus Foundation]]
 +
|          $280,000
 +
|-
 +
|19. [[Dallas Foundation]]
 +
|          $250,000
 +
|-
 +
|20. [[Schooner Foundation]]
 +
|          $234,717
 +
|-
 +
|21. [[Mai Family Foundation]]
 +
|          $225,000
 +
|-
 +
|22. [[McKay Foundation]]
 +
|          $225,000
 +
|-
 +
|23. [[Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation ]]
 +
|          $175,000
 +
|-
 +
|24. [[Johnson Family Foundation]]
 +
|          $155,000
 +
|-
 +
|25. [[Goatie Foundation]]
 +
|          $150,000
 +
|-
 +
|26. [[Pritzker Family Foundation ]]
 +
|          $150,000
 +
|-
 +
|27. [[Wasserman Foundation]]
 +
|          $150,000
 +
|-
 +
|28. [[BayTree  Fund]]
 +
|          $110,000
 +
|-
 +
|29 [[Kanter Family Foundation]]
 +
|          $108,000
 +
|-
 +
|30. [[Proteus Fund]]
 +
|          $95,000
 +
|-
 +
|31. [[Dwoskin Family Foundation]]
 +
|            $87,500
 +
|-
 +
|32. [[Barbara Lee Family Foundation]]
 +
|            $80,000
 +
|-
 +
|33. [[J.M. Kaplan Fund]]
 +
|            $77,500
 +
|-
 +
|34. [[Furman Foundation]]
 +
|            $75,000
 +
|-
 +
|35. [[Murphy Family Foundation]]
 +
|          $75,000
 +
|-
 +
|36. [[Sagner Family Foundation]]
 +
|            $65,000
 +
|-
 +
|37. [[Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (aka RPA)]]
 +
|            $60,000
 +
|-
 +
|38. [[Wallace Global Fund]]
 +
|            $60,000
 +
|-
 +
|39. [[AG Foundation (aka Agnes Gund Foundation)]]
 +
|            $55,000
 +
|-
 +
|40. [[Lear Family Foundation ]]
 +
|            $55,000
 +
|-
 +
|41. [[Barbra Streisand Foundation]]
 +
|            $55,000
 +
|-
 +
|42. [[Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (aka GKCCF)]]
 +
|            $51,000
 +
|-
 +
|43. [[Carnegie Corporation]]
 +
|            $50,000
 +
|-
 +
|44. [[Daniel Neidich & Brooke Gerber Foundation]]
 +
|            $50,000
 +
|-
 +
|45. [[Park Foundation]]
 +
|            $50,000
 +
|}
    
==References==
 
==References==
Aschlafly
Siteadmin, Bureaucrats, Check users, nsAm_Govt_101RO, nsAm_Govt_101RW, nsAm_Govt_101_ta, nsJudgesRO, nsJudgesRW, nsJudges_talkRO, nsJudges_talkRW, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, oversight, Administrators
125,789

edits

Retrieved from "https://www.conservapedia.com/Special:MobileDiff/993727"

Navigation menu