Tax-Exempt Foundations: The Arms and Legs of the Deep Political Establishment

How tax-exempt foundations facilitate establishment agendas in America

If think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergs, and the World Economic Forum are the heads of the figurative establishment cabal octopus, then the alphabet agencies and the myriad tax-exempt foundations they employ could be seen as the tentacles.

According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), more than 1.5 million tax-exempt charities and foundations are currently operating in the United States, many of them expressing seemingly laudable intentions. (#) What the average Joe fails to realize is that a significant portion of these entities exist to further the agendas of the various globalist institutions mentioned throughout this series.

Tax-exempt foundations were originally set up for humanitarian purposes to provide grants to existing institutions. This is one of the primary funding mechanisms used by international foreign policy think tanks to facilitate operations throughout the world. Again, if the CFR, Bilderbergs, WEF, etc. are the brain, then these foundations are the arms and legs that facilitate the desires and schemes of the brain.

The importance of the nonprofit in the Deep State’s machinations cannot be overstated. Norman Dodd, director of research for the House Select Committee to Investigate Foundations and Comparable Organizations, reported in 1952 that the president of the Ford Foundation told him bluntly that,

"operating under a directive from the White House … use our grant-making power so as to alter our life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." (#)

If you were to make an effort to trace some of the former and current nonprofits connected to members and initiatives of the CFR et al., you'd inevitably find a pervasive web of influence stretching across all corners of society. A considerable bulk of what we think of as the “Deep State” exists as not-for-profit foundations and 501(c)(3)s.

These include, but are certainly not limited to:

The Agency of International Development, American Civil Liberties Union, Race Forward (Applied Research Center), American Press Institute, Anti-Defamation League (#), Aspen Institute, Association of Humanistic Psychology, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Cuban Studies, Christian Socialist League, Communist League, Environmental Fund, Fabian Society, Ford Foundation, Foundation for National Progress, German Marshall Fund, Hudson Institute, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Milner Group, Mont Pelerin Society, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Council of Churches, New World Foundation, RAND Corporation, Stanford Research Institute, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Union of Concerned Scientists, International Red Cross, and the YMCA. (#) (#)

(All links above will lead either to Influencewatch or WikiSpooks, two helpful websites worth adding to your internet research toolkit.)

When it comes to policing journalism, there are:

• The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

• The National Press Foundation

• The International Center for Journalists

• The Solutions Journalism Network

• the Poynter Institute,

All of which are connected to individuals belonging to one or multiple of the various clandestine think tanks mentioned in this series.

Classic Examples

To further demonstrate the point I’m trying to make here, let’s look at the Aspen Institute as an example. In their own words, the Aspen Institute is a “global concern with considerable diplomatic influence”, the institute as of 2017 maintains $333,208,000 in assets and, according to Aspen Times Weekly’s Paul Anderson:

“… regularly hosts presidents, prime ministers, philosophers, statesmen, advisers, educators, journalists, activists, and a roster of corporate reps to rival the Fortune 500 … yet, despite its national prominence, the Institute remains an enigma to the majority of the local residents and visitors.”

The Institute was founded in the 1940s as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; though the appellation regarding humanism was dropped in the 1970s. Founders included Walter Paepcke, a Chicago industrialist; Robert Maynard Hutchins, then-president of the Rockefeller-dominated University of Chicago; Mortimer Adler, a philosopher; and CFR and Bones member Henry Luce, the powerful head of Time-Life publications.

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)

An umbrella organization encompassing hundreds of diverse groups representing both the Left and the Right of the political spectrum is still active in Washington. It is another example of an organization linked to secret societies. Author Coleman wrote,

"IPS has shaped and reshaped United States policies, foreign and domestic, since it was founded by James P. Warburg and the Rothschild entities in the United States, bolstered by Bertrand Russell and the British socialists through its networks in America.... The objectives of IPS came from an agenda laid down for it by the British Round Table . . . one of the most notable being to create the 'New Left' as a grassroots movement in the U.S. IPS was to engender strife and unrest and spread chaos like a wildfire out of control, proliferate the 'ideals' of left-wing nihilistic socialism, support unrestricted use of drugs of all types, and be the 'big stick' with which to beat the United States political establishment."

According to Coleman, IPS founders Riebard Barnett and Marcus Raskin have controlled such diverse elements as the Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg, National Security Council staff member Morton Halperin, the Weathermen, the Venceramosand the campaign staff of candidate George McGovern (who some of you might recall from Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail).

Author S. Steven Powell noted that a stated IPS goal was:

"the dismantling of all economic, political, social, and cultural institutions in the United States."

Following an extensive investigation just before the collapse of Communism, he concluded,

"An ordered accounting of [IPS activities] reveals that much of what the institute does, for all intents and purposes, also serves the interests of the Soviet Union ... [The] IPS has been remarkably successful in promoting a sweeping radical agenda by maintaining the facade of a liberal scholarly research center."

According to researchers, much of IPS funding comes from CFR-connected organizations, including the Rubin Foundation, which was represented by the New York law firm of Lord, Day & Lord. The Lord family has counted members on the Skull and Bones rolls since 1898. Winston Lord (The Order, 1959), a former aide to Henry Kissinger, was chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1983 and later President Reagan's ambassador to China.

The Ford Foundation

Another tool that has been used and abused over the last century to affect globalist aims. A long-time president of the Lord Foundation was the ubiquitous McGeorge Bundy, CFR member, Bonesman, and the National Security Advisor who presided over the Gulf of Tonkin incident precipitating the Vietnam War. In the mid-1980s, a movement toward rewriting the U.S. Constitution gained momentum in part due to the work of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, which was established with Ford Foundation money. The movement inevitably floundered in the face of widespread opposition.

Brookings Institute

Dedicates its work to what it calls a “national agenda,” wrote President Hoover’s program, President Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the Kennedy Administration’s “New Frontiers” program (deviation from it cost John F. Kennedy his life), and President Johnson’s “Great Society.” Brookings has been telling the United States Government how to conduct its affairs for the past 70 years and is still doing so.

Hudson Institute

Under the direction of Herman Khan ( who we covered extensively in the WEF piece, being one of the men behind the rise of Klaus Schwab), this institution has done more to shape the way Americans react to political and social events, think, vote and generally conduct themselves than perhaps any other entity except the BIG FIVE Media conglomerates. Hudson specialized in defense policy research and relations with the USSR and was an instrumental cog in the Military Industrial Complex. Most of its military work is classified as “SECRET”. Some of its earlier papers were entitled “Stability and Tranquility Among Older Nations,” and “Analytical Summary of U.S. National Security Policy Issues.”

Hudson prides itself on its diversity; it helped NASA with its space programs and helped to promote new youth fashions and ideas, youth rebellion, and alienation, ostensibly funded by Coca-Cola. Hudson may be quite properly classified as one of the Cabal’s BRAIN-WASHING establishments. Some of its nuclear war scenarios make for very interesting reading and, if they can be obtained, I would recommend “The 6 Basic Thermonuclear Threats” and “Possible Outcomes of Thermonuclear War,” and one of its more frightening papers entitled “Israeli-Arab Nuclear War.”

Hudson also does corporate advising for many companies: Rank, Xerox, General Electric, IBM, and General Motors, to name but a few of them, but its really big client remains the U.S. Department of Defense, which includes matters of civil defense, national security, military policy, and arms control.

National Training Laboratories

NTL is also known as the International Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences. This institute is a brainwashing center based on Kurt Lewin principles, which include so-called T-Groups (training groups), artificial stress training whereby participants suddenly find themselves immersed in defending themselves against vicious accusations. NTL takes in the National Education Association, the largest teacher group in the United States.

The Reece Committee

Rene A. Wormser served as General Counsel to the Reece Committee, which was a congressional committee that investigated these tax-exempt foundations from 1953 to 1955. Wormser’s book, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, is a documented expose of his experience with the committee. In it, he wrote,

"Foundations were originally created to support existing institutions and to undertake certain 'operating' functions."

The Reece Committee sits alongside the Church Committee as two of the most important and reveling committees to have ever come out of the United States Congress.

[RELATED: The Church Committee, for Dummies]

Foundations inevitably became a loophole that the financial elite used to avoid taxes. Some suggest that was the purpose of their creation from the beginning.

By the time the income tax became law in 1913, the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations were already operating at full steam. Income tax would be an additional mechanism to insulate their power; it acted not as a penalty on the rich, but rather it nuked the middle class. Because it was a graduated tax, it tended to prevent anyone from rising into affluence. Essentially, the income tax acted to consolidate the wealth of entrenched interests while protecting them from new competition.

When discussing charitable or nonprofit foundations, you’ll inevitably hear words like “humanitarian” or “philanthropy”, but these terms are really dog whistles for the financial elite. In most cases, these foundations are less about humanitarian efforts and more about tax avoidance, a tool used by elites to protect their fortunes. The major foundations, like those listed above, though commonly regarded as charitable institutions, often use their grant-making powers to advance the interests of their founders.

According to the findings of congressional investigations, various foundations have been known to fund political movements in a direction inclined to favor a socialistic, one-world government. Individual foundations have also been known to merge themselves in a "cartel-like" fashion to fund their political projects, which tends "to endanger the freedom of our intellectual and public life," warned Wormser. Wormser referred to this merging as the “tax-exempt complex.”

The first true glimpse into the reality of foundation influence came under the Congressional Act of August 23, 1912, when the Commission on Industrial Relations studied labor conditions and the treatment of workers by the major U.S. industrial firms. They eventually examined the foundations, which were interlocked with them.

"Starting with a study of labor exploitation, it [the Commission on Industrial Relations] went on to investigate concentrations of economic power, interlocking directorates, and the role of the then relatively new large charitable foundations (especially of Carnegie and Rockefeller) as instruments of power concentration," —Wormser.

During the commission hearings, future Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis testified on January 23, 1915, that he was seriously concerned about the emerging danger of such a concentration of power. He said,

"When a great financial power has developed... which can successfully summon forces from all parts of the country... to carry out what they deem to be their business principle... [there] develops within the State a state so powerful that the ordinary social and industrial forces existing are insufficient to cope with it."

The Commission’s director of research, Mr. Basil M. Manly declared,

…Control is being extended largely through the creation of enormous privately managed funds for indefinite purposes, hereinafter designated 'foundations'…

The commission's report concluded that,

"As regards the 'foundations' created for unlimited general purposes and endowed with enormous resources, their ultimate possibilities are so grave a menace... [that] it would be desirable to recommend their abolition."

So it is a matter of historical fact that Congress once declared these foundations, which can be used to fund anything, should be eliminated because they are potentially destructive to the republic.