“5 for 5:” The tenuous place of Big Philanthropy in America’s social contract
The fourth in a series of five republished articles to mark our fifth anniversary.
5Aug2024
Patman Committee
Leaders of aggressive Congressional investigations of philanthropy—past, and potential future?
Given the growing number of harsh progressive, populist, and just plain rule-of-law critiques about so much of unelected, unaccountable, and tax-favored establishment philanthropy, there may be a desire on the part of policymakers to aggressively examine some or all of it again.
24Feb2022
From the archives, an excerpt of John E. Riecker’s “Foundations and the Patman Committee Report”
“Patman had much to allege with respect to his Committee’s accumulated evidence of … foundation abuse of the sanctuary of income tax exemption,” according to the Midland, Mich., tax attorney’s 1964 law-review article.
17Feb2022