A shocking new analysis of tax disclosures from three major American nonprofit organizations revealed that the charities collectively gave millions to the Chinese government and state-affiliated universities and groups.
The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) analyzed the tax disclosures from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation and discovered that together, the organizations “donated about $10.2 million directly to the Chinese government and to organizations headed by top-ranking CCP members.”
According to the news foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which “supports the people and organizations building lasting solutions to the challenges facing today’s increasingly interdependent world,” gave the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) $530,000 for “environmental initiatives” and the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment $400,000 for “capacity building” and “research.”
The MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation also funded the CAS between 2017 and 2022, with the first giving $265,000, and the latter giving a whopping $706,000. The DCNF reported, “The Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave CAS funding for environmental initiatives, while the Ford Foundation funded its research examining China’s investments in the global south ‘from a gender perspective’ and on urban poverty in the country. The MacArthur Foundation’s grants, meanwhile, supported CAS’ Kunming Institute of Botany and funded ecological research.”
CAS reportedly operates under the authority of the Chinese State Council, which is comprised primarily of Chinese Community Party (CCP) members, and the Party Central Committee, which the DCNF notes is the “top policy-making body of the CCP.” The president of CAS, Hou Jianguo, a CCP member himself, said in 2020 that CAS would “be guided by Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics for [a] new era.”
The now-controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology also operates under CAS and credits the entity with creating “databases of novel coronavirus information,” and overseeing the lab’s submission of the genome sequence of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) to the World Health Organization (WHO) in early January 2020. New documents have recently speculated, however, that Chinese researchers may have mapped the virus genome sequence two weeks before sharing the information publicly with other countries.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund additionally shared in financial statement documents from December 2022, that the organization “registered under the supervision of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China (formerly the Ministry of Environmental Protection) and operates an office in Beijing,” in 2017.
The Ford Foundation also gave China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security $27,878, according to DCNF, in 2014, to “tour the United States for economic research.” Later, in 2018, the foundation sent $20,000 to the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture to “conduct urbanization research.”
U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher told the DCNF that the Chinese government’s “economic warfare uses any and all available leverage to coerce us,” and urged American organizations to “stop fueling our own destruction.”
