Good News! Conservatives Have Their Own Tides Foundation

Good News! Conservatives Have Their Own Tides Foundation

by John Sexton 3 Dec 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/12/03/Good-News-Conservatives-Have-Their-Own-Tides-Foundation

Mother Jones has a story this morning about Donor Trust, a group that collects and distributes money to conservative organizations including some that produce news. The splashy headline claims that Donor Trust distributed $96 million last year. A subhead reads "A big winner of last year's conservative cash bonanza? Right-wing 'journalism.'" That's journalism in scare quotes.

But toward the end of the article you get this admission:

DonorsTrust isn't the only donor-advised fund on the ideological spectrum. On the left there's the Tides Foundation, which also accepts anonymous donations and gives out money to thousands of progressive nonprofits each year (including Mother Jones' parent nonprofit, the Foundation for National Progress).

So it seems Mother Jones isn't against "dark money" funding journalism, or should I say "journalism." It's fine when they do it. But when the right does the same thing that's different...or something.

Not mentioned in the Mother Jones story is that Tides gave out 91.4 million in 2012. Maybe that's what has Mother Jones upset. The Tides Foundation is being beaten at their own game.

Mother Jones

Jay T. Harris was a publisher for Mother Jones, the president for the Foundation for National Progress, and is a senior fellow at Demos.

Note: Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for Demos, the Tides Foundation, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

David H. Koch is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the chairman for the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.

Americans for Prosperity Foundation was a donor for DonorsTrust.

James S. Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Lester Crown was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory

http://commercialclubchicago.org/members/e.html

Please note: This link for the members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.

Rahm I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Ari Emanuel’s brother, the Chicago (IL) mayor, was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Ari Emanuel is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, the co-CEO & director for William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, and Michael Moore’s agent.

Michael Moore’s agent is Ari Emanuel, a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client, and was an editor for Mother Jones.

Jay T. Harris was a publisher for Mother Jones, the president for the Foundation for National Progress, and is a senior fellow at Demos.

Monika Bauerlein is an editor for Mother Jones, and the VP for the Foundation for National Progress.

Foundation for National Progress publishes Mother Jones.