Exclusive – Tax Documents: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Turns to Soros-Funded Groups and Democrats to Keep Dwindling Operations Alive

Breitbart ^ | 25 Mar 2024 | MATTHEW BOYLE

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Tax documents for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and for a major foundation funded by leftist billionaire George Soros show the organization that purports to represent the U.S. business community has turned hard left in recent years.

The Tides Foundation’s public filings from 2018 to 2022 show the Soros-funded organization has given more than $12 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation over that five-year span. In 2018, the Tides Foundation gave the Chamber’s foundation $450,000. In 2019, Tides gave the Chamber group $1,450,000. It gave another $100,000 in 2020, followed by $10 million in 2021 and another $175,885 in 2022. That totals $12,175,885 in a five-year span.

View the Tides Foundation’s public filings here:

Tax form 990 by Breitbart News on Scribd

The Tides Foundation is funded by a variety of leftist donors including tens of millions of dollars given by Soros’s various groups and family members.

“God knows what they promised in return for a Tides Foundation contribution of that size,” a former Chamber consultant told Breitbart News. “But, George Soros doesn’t write checks like this without a return on his investment.”

During this timeframe, specifically from 2021 to 2022, revenue for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation dropped significantly per 2022 tax documents the organization just filed. Revenue for the organization in 2021, per the documents, was at $53,612,150 whereas in 2022 per the group’s IRS 990 form it was at $30,634,307. That’s a drop of $22,977,843—or about...

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I believed, and I imagine most Americans believed, that the Chamber of Commerce was mostly about supporting small, local businesses.

It seems as if the Chamber of Communism is now run by vast multi-national corporations who act either directly or indirectly to destroy small, local businesses.

Can we get the Chamber of Commerce labeled as a foreign agent?

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Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Tides Foundation ping

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backed Open Society Policy Center, according to an internal administration email obtained by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative nonprofit that is suing the administration to obtain records related to the executive order.

The Democratic Party’s stance on issues, from climate change to voting procedures, is also echoed by their nonprofit allies. The Fair Elections Center, for example, calls those who questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential race “election deniers” who oppose the right to vote. Their stance echoes President Biden, who said last year that there were “more than 300 election deniers on the ballot” for the midterms, adding that “It’s damaging, it’s corrosive, and it’s destructive.”

Significant funding for these and other voting activist operations flows from the same sources that put millions of dollars into Democratic and progressive campaigns.

Among them:

The Tides Foundation, with $1 billion in revenue in 2020, funds the moveon.org PAC while also giving to the Voter Registration Project, League of Women Voters, and Project Vote. The foundation is one of several Tides nonprofits that operate in the charity world of progressive funding, giving to groups that advocate for abortion rights, gun control, and “equity” causes. Tides is also a partner of Black Lives Matter.....-— source: Steven Miller, Real Clear Investigations

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Sorry, the lead in of that excerpt from another thread was cropped off by mistake:

Despite a tax code restricting tax-exempt nonprofits from political activity, putatively nonpartisan outfits like the Voter Participation Center are able to boost turnout in Democratic areas....

two influential groups, the Voter Participation Center and its partner group, the Center for Voter Information, increase Democratic turnout.

Both have the stated mission of encouraging people in specified demographics – “young people, people of color and unmarried women” – to vote. All three groups are part of the Democratic Party’s base. Voters in these groups are up to two-and-a-half times more likely to vote when engaged by a nonprofit, according to research from Nonprofit Vote, an advocacy group for tax-exempt activist groups.

The value of these groups was underscored when the Biden administration prepared to compose his executive order directing federal agencies to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote.” In July 2021 officials met with leading progressive operators, including Democracy Fund, Fair Elections Center, FairVote, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and the George Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center, according to an internal administration email obtained by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative nonprofit that is suing the administration to obtain records related to the executive order....

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But but the GOPe Chamber of Commerce groupies here who constantly back illegal immigration, off-shoring and “Free Trade” aren’t going to like this at all!

Or maybe they were anti-Americans all along. LOL.

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Oh! You mean the U.S. Chamber of Crypto-Fascist, Crony-Commerce.

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The CoC is being used by Soros to push his Great Replacement push, which is going quite well thanks to them.

The President of the United States has been indicted 91 times and dragged through countless lawsuits which are nothing more then harassment. When will Soros meet the same fate? He’s actually wanted in a number of countries for currency fraud but somehow manages to stay right there in his cozy little NY mansion. When do we see him being screwed by a crooked judge and a racist prosecutor?

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Yep; those are the guys Officer. They were dressed in expensive suits and reeked of special interest lobbying. I believe their hide-outs are in D.C.'s popular bars. They're armed with huge fake smiles and insincere handshakes so approach warily in a HazMat suit if available. Deadly force is not authorized but a hard whack to the peepee is sanctioned (a little Cheech & Chong reference).

Seriously though, Soros is on death's doorstep at 93 years of age but his sons are avidly running with his "Destroy America" agenda unless someone stops it. Why doesn't the United States have a James Bond or few with all these super-villains running amok? Oh yeah, in real life those guys know to buy off the politicians holding their leashes.

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