X post by Elizabeth MacDonald
This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don’t say.
It has no stipulated plans for how it will spend your $7B in tax $$, just ephemeral solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon that amount to only about $50M total, a fraction of the $7B. It also gave money out of that $7b to Power Forward Communities linked to Stacey Abrams.
It has little to no details on how much its officers get paid that you typically see on NGO 990s, in fact virtually no details, red flags that it’s a shell.
It supposedly is a partnership betw Dem insiders at investment firm Calvert Impact Capital, Community Preservation Corp. and a group called “Self-Help” (irony noted).
Beth Bafford is its CEO, a former “special assistant” in Obama’s OMB and a regional field director for the Obama Campaign.
As we tweeted about a month ago, it has ties to Democratic Party of California chairman and California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta and Patrice Willoughby of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Judge Glock, the Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted on X that the Climate United Fund got your $7B ater submitting a small 49-page report. That was all it took.
X post Jeff Carlson
This popup NGO shell company story is only going to get bigger. It may end up becoming the story.
Looks like this may have been one of the primary vehicles to take advantage of the giant taxpayer-funded slush funds created by Biden—or whoever was running him.
This is more than Grant Laundering. This is Program Laundering. And it looks like Obama’s fingerprints are all over it.
AI Overview
“Beth Bafford is the CEO of the Climate United Fund, and Rafael Cestero was the CEO of Community Preservation Corporation, one of the organizations that make up the fund. In 2023, Cestero earned almost $1.5 million in salary.”
Just from a little looking it appears this is another one of the shell game NGOs where every board member of each organization under the Climate United umbrella has their own NGO they donate funds to. Lots of overlap on the various boards. You’d have to take the time to investigate each board member. They also have at least 50 other NGOs they donate to. Each member NGO would also have to be investigated. $1.5 million is the highest salary I’ve seen of the 25 or so I’ve looked at that Doge has uncovered. It is odd the main non profit rating group doesn’t have them in their database.
Funding to ALL 1.5 million NGO’s should be frozen until they can be investigated for legitimacy.