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Past financial contributors to MoveOn.org included:
Linda Pritzker donated $4,000,000.
George Soros donated $1,460,000.
Peter B. Lewis donated at$500,000.
The San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds, a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with the San Francisco Foundation, began serving as a fiscal sponsor for MoveOn.org Civic Action in 2000, providing a channel through which individuals made directed, tax-exempt donations to support its work. In 2001, SFFCIF's IRS Form 990 show that it provided MoveOn.org Civic Action with $17,698 in funding.
MoveOn ceased receiving any donations to it's 527 after the 2004 election, and closed the 527 permanently in 2008.
MoveOn's primary source of funding is it's members. MoveOn raised nearly 60 million dollars in 2004 from members alone, with an average donation of $50.
FreedomWorks receives funding from Verizon and AT&T. Other FreedomWorks funders include MetLife, Philip Morris and foundations controlled by the conservative Scaife family, according to tax filings and other records.
It also receives funding through the sale of insurance policies through which policyholders automatically become members of FreedomWorks.
FreedomWorks is closely tied to its founder, corporate lobbyist and former Republican Congressman Dick Armey, whose lobbying firm DLA Piper represents Bristol Myers Squibb, among other pharmaceutical companies.
Past financial contributors to MoveOn.org included:
Linda Pritzker donated $4,000,000.
George Soros donated $1,460,000.
Peter B. Lewis donated at$500,000.
The San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds, a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with the San Francisco Foundation, began serving as a fiscal sponsor for MoveOn.org Civic Action in 2000, providing a channel through which individuals made directed, tax-exempt donations to support its work. In 2001, SFFCIF's IRS Form 990 show that it provided MoveOn.org Civic Action with $17,698 in funding.
MoveOn ceased receiving any donations to it's 527 after the 2004 election, and closed the 527 permanently in 2008.
MoveOn's primary source of funding is it's members. MoveOn raised nearly 60 million dollars in 2004 from members alone, with an average donation of $50.
FreedomWorks receives funding from Verizon and AT&T. Other FreedomWorks funders include MetLife, Philip Morris and foundations controlled by the conservative Scaife family, according to tax filings and other records.
It also receives funding through the sale of insurance policies through which policyholders automatically become members of FreedomWorks.
FreedomWorks is closely tied to its founder, corporate lobbyist and former Republican Congressman Dick Armey, whose lobbying firm DLA Piper represents Bristol Myers Squibb, among other pharmaceutical companies.
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