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keeper1 ago

Hi, All,

There's been lots of discussions that involve these not-for-profit (NFP) organizations, but I've not found where anybody on the forum here has talked about the tax returns for these not-for-profits. The IRS requires that NFPs file some form of a 990 form each year to maintain their tax-exempt status (there are 990-EZs for simple organizations and the bigger 990s for more complex organizations). These tax returns ARE SUBJECT TO PUBLIC INSPECTION. Therefore, lots of organizations post them on their websites and there are other charitable organization ratings/monitoring companies that also make these returns available (e.g. www.guidestar.org).

For example, the McCain Institute Foundation 's 44-page 990 form for 2014 is here:

2014 McCain Institute Foundation tax return: (https://www.scribd.com/document/306548232/McCain-Institute-2014-990))

What's interesting about these returns is that besides the income and expenses of the organization, they list the directors and lots of other pertinent information, like the names of organizations to which they give grants or make donations as well as people/organizations from whom they receive contributions in excess of $5,000. If you look at this McCain Institute 2014 return, you'll see that the Royal Embassy of Saudia Arabia contributed $1,000,000 to the McCain Institute in 2014. There are others listed as well: The Eranda Foundation from the UK -- I don't know who they are but they donated $300,000 in 2014

In addition, this particular 990 has a 23-page Investments Schedule attached to it which details, for example, how many shares in the HSBC FDS Hedge fund they own. (Didn't I see a post earlier today talking about HSBC's link to money laundering for some of these criminals?) All of which is to say that there's a huge amount of information on these IRS public record tax returns.

I have been trying to do some research on a few of these NFPs, which I will post when it's in better order, but for now, I want people to know this resource is out there.

Here's the IRS website to find an EIN (Employer Identification Number) for NFPs:

https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/pub78Search.do?searchChoice=pub78&dispatchMethod=navigateSearch&pathName=forwardToPub78Search&submitName=Return+to+Search

The search criteria requires you to put the name in quotes to have a manageable list (e.g., "McCain Institute" pulls up just the one).

The beauty of having an EIN is that it's very specific, so it's easily searched on google. For example, I entered the EIN for "Innocents at Risk" and the top five items were ALL pertinent.

Also these are usually available as downloadable pdfs so that helps in countering the disappearing-evidence problem that we all keep seeing.

So, if people can get started pulling the 990 forms for all of these various NFPs that are tied into all of this, they will give us lots of leads to work with. Organizations that don't post their 990s are supposed to provide them upon request.

I'm sorry I can't take more time right now, but I will happily answer questions if anybody has any related to this post. (I'm no tax expert or anything, but I do have a bit of familiarity with 990-EZs.)

Koched_Up404 ago

Eranda Foundation is owned and operated by the Rothschilds. Lynn Forester de Rothschild and her husband Evelyn Rothschild. Lynn Rothschild is on the McCain Institute Board of Trustees.

https://www.mccaininstitute.org/staff/?filter=board-of-trustees

She is a close friend and major financial backer of Hillary Clinton and she also backed John McCain in 2008 after Hillary lost the DNC nomination to Barack Obama.

keeper1 ago

Hi, Koched_Up404: I just referenced your above comment in a different thread: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1718090

(Sorry if there's a better way to do this that I should be following but don't know about.)