Charity or Billions for the Left's Voter Pipeline? - The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Besides their tax exemption and tax deduction for donors, 501(c)(3)s enjoy a key advantage over political committees (PACs): distance from the two parties.
54% : Why do Americans award income tax exemptions to the Red Cross, private schools, and local churches?
53% : Because 90 percent of the contributions we are recommending for voter registration and GOTV efforts will go to 501(c)(3) organizations and hence are tax deductible, on an after-tax basis such programs are closer to 4 to 10 times more cost effective than the next best alternative.
49% : It gushes that in 2017, the Fund for New Jersey "took the opportunity of an open governor's seat and legislative elections to share research and policy ideas with candidates and policymakers," while in Minneapolis, the Graves Foundation "didn't want parents, families and others with a stake in public education to miss" a local school board race "for lack of knowledge of who was running and issues at stake."
49% : For instance, the Ford Foundation praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) felon voting rights restoration bill in 2018 as an "important step forward for criminal justice reform, for voting rights, [and] for racial justice."
43% : In practice, the left is shameless about using 501(c)(3)s to target likely Democratic voters while the Right is too afraid of losing tax exemptions to engage in much (c)(3) registration at all.

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