Not surprisingly they're a far left group, following is an excerpt about them:
"CMD takes significant sums of money for its work from left-wing foundations, and has even received a half-million dollar donation from one of the country’s largest donor-advised funds—all the while criticizing pro-business or free-market advocacy groups who also use donor advised funds or rely on foundation support.
Left leaning groups are notably absent from negative mention in PR Watch and SourceWatch. While SourceWatch maintains a “tobacco portal” dedicated to exposing links between free-market groups and the tobacco industry, the site neglects to include the thousands of dollars given by the tobacco industry to many labor-affiliated advocacy organizations.
Despite this history of far-left advocacy and funding, media sources often mistakenly cite CMD and its SourceWatch website as independent watchdog organizations.
Background
CMD began primarily as a project of career far-left activists John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, who used CMD as a platform from which to publish a series of books. Since Stauber and Rampton’s retirements, CMD has been run by Lisa Graves, a career Democratic Party and left-liberal activist who previously worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
CMD:”...The group operates the publication PR Watch and a related Wiki-platform SourceWatch, which present the group’s hostile view of free-market organizations.”
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Total Revenue |
$37,863,937 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Total Functional Expenses | $24,486,270 | |
| Net income | $13,377,667 | |
| Notable sources of revenue | Percent of total revenue | |
| Contributions | $35,395,354 | 93.5% |
| Program services | $29,234 | 0.1% |
| Investment income | $1,011,544 | 2.7% |
| Bond proceeds | $0 | |
| Royalties | $271,013 | 0.7% |
| Rental property income | $0 | |
| Net fundraising | $0 | |
| Sales of assets | $1,153,027 | 3.0% |
| Net inventory sales | $2,384 | 0.0% |
| Other revenue | $1,381 | 0.0% |
| Notable expenses | Percent of total expenses | |
| Executive compensation | $1,089,407 | 4.4% |
| Professional fundraising fees | $136,347 | 0.6% |
| Other salaries and wages | $3,392,717 | 13.9% |
| Other | ||
| Total Assets | $49,452,511 | |
| Total Liabilities | $2,320,549 | |
| Net Assets | $47,131,962 | |