{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-probes-gates-foundation-and-others-for-501c3-compliance", "Grassley Probes Gates Foundation and Others for 501(c)(3) Compliance", "2025-10-28", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is scrutinizing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation to determine how the organizations are complying with applicable tax laws given their reported funding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies.\n\n\u201cAccording to recent reports, [your organizations], through grants and direct payments, have funded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies,\u201d Grassley wrote. \u201cTo maintain tax exempt status, an organization\u2019s activities must be charitable in nature and may not directly support or promote the interests of a foreign government.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am writing today to ask you whether these reports are true or not and, if true, how your organization\u2019s conduct comports with 501(c)(3) requirements,\u201d Grassley continued.\n\nRead Grassley\u2019s letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation HERE.\n\nRead Grassley\u2019s letter to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund HERE.\n\nRead Grassley\u2019s letter to the Ford Foundation HERE.\n\nBackground:\n\nSection 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code provides tax-exempt status for entities that are charitable in nature and do not directly support or promote the interests of a foreign government. While private foundations are allowed to provide funds to foreign organizations, they must follow specific rules to ensure funds are used for a qualifying charitable purpose and avoid excise taxes.\n\nThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2023 reportedly directed approximately $11.7 million to various arms of the CCP, as well as $2 million to a corporation working with the Chinese military and $6.7 million to state-run Chinese universities. In fiscal year 2022, the nonprofit organization reportedly provided roughly $23 million to over 20 different Chinese entities, some of which were labeled \u201cforeign governments.\u201d\n\nThe Rockefeller Brothers Fund, from April 2020 to August 2024, reportedly donated $7.4 million to organizations that were part of the CCP, led by members of the CCP or engaged in partnerships with China. Specifically, the nonprofit partnered with the \u201cSociety of Entrepreneurs of Ecology Foundation,\u201d which partnered with the CCP to assist the Belt and Road Initiative.\n\nThe Ford Foundation, from January 2020 to December 2024, reportedly provided nearly $10 million to the Chinese government to further the Belt and Road Initiative. Most of the Ford Foundation\u2019s Chinese grant funding was reportedly given to state-run, or CCP-run, universities with strong ties to the People\u2019s Liberation Army.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-probes-gates-foundation-and-others-for-501c3-compliance"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9800802692770958, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}