I know. I don't think that is the issue. After all Walter Annenberg was a close friend of Ronald Reagan.
With these big sources of money, IMO it's not who you can link in some way to the foundation, it's the track record of the specific people who have the grant in question.
“After all Walter Annenberg was a close friend of Ronald Reagan.”
Would Reagan have been a friend of Ayers? That’s not much of a point. Annenberg, just like many universities, is radicalized.
It is an Alinsky taught tactic to use the reputation of one or another (such as Annenberg was a friend of Ronald Reagan, so by some unassigned means the org cannot be mutated into a Marxist revolution tool ... wake up, America!) in order to inveigle the societal institutions and 'change' the larger society from the inside.
If you have not heard of the connections between Obama and Ayers, know that they have been involved for more than twenty years, even sharing an office at one time, also serving on decision making boards which doled out hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly with 'zero' advantage to the supposed trrageted institutions such as the Chicago School System.
If you really want to know the exctent to which Barack Obama has been groomed to the position he is now being aimed, do a bit of searching on the following names: Ken Rolling, Wade Rathke, Maxine Greene, Penny Pritzker, Khalid Abdullah Tariqu al-Mansour (aka Don Warden), Judson Miner, George Soros, and Weather Underground, not necessarily in that order. Michelle Obama has perhaps known Bill Ayers longer than Barack has. Look up the orgs named 'Public Allies', Arakansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, the DCP (Developing Communities Project), and the Gamaliel Foundation.
Barack Obama is a hard Marxist doing the thing he was taught in the Alinsky indoctrination schooling he took then later taught: Barack Obama is the ultimate cancer planted in the heart of our societal institutions, a man who not only studied Alinsky methodology, but has taught same and incorporated it into the teaching he did for ACORN and Public Allies. Obama has been working with Ayers since the eighties. Oh yeah, Billy Ayers is 'just a guy in Obama's neighborhood', and a close associate and team member. Folks, this man is extremely destructive for the future of the Republic, that's providing you even want a Republic ... the goal of Billy AYers, George Soros, and Barack Obama is to end the Republic and replace it with a managed society with Marxist like Obama at the top. And this is in fact what the Ayers and Obama work in the public education system has been aiming for, so now we have millions of kids raised in that rot who do not know there is a difference.