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We know the Trump Department of Justice has threatened individuals it considers political opponents. Echoing authoritarian regimes worldwide, they\u2019ve now indicted<\/u> the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In response, major Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs), including Vanguard, Fidelity, and Schwab, have prevented clients from donating to SPLC, cutting the organization off from funding without even a shred of due process. <\/p>\n

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If the DAFs follow this precedent, it could eliminate a key source of funding for any nonprofits this\u2014or any future\u2014administration chooses to attack.<\/p>\n

The funds claim their action is necessary because, according to the administration, it constituted fraud<\/u> for SPLC to have paid hate group informants. But federal and state law enforcement agencies have known about the infiltrations for years, using information they provided to help secure indictments and convictions<\/u>. So the charges are spurious<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Fidelity justified its actions<\/u> by citing a policy of pausing DAF giving if an organization \u201cis being investigated for alleged illegal activities\u2026such as terrorism, money laundering, hate crimes or fraud,\u201d or if \u201cstate and federal agencies\u201d are investigating a charitable organization. Schwab\u2019s fund quietly removed SPLC from its list of eligible nonprofits, and a representative read me similar boilerplate, saying the fund was deciding on next steps. <\/p>\n

The danger is far larger than the SPLC case. The listed criteria would let federal or state authorities cripple any nonprofit they choose, simply by launching an investigation. The organization doesn\u2019t have to be convicted, or even indicted. They just have to be investigated, which makes this a perfect way to target political opponents. The administration has already issued a memorandum<\/u> promising investigations of groups that promote \u201canti-fascism,\u201d \u201canti-Christianity,\u201d or \u201chostility\u201d toward \u201ctraditional American views on family, religion, and morality.\u201d It\u2019s threatened Wikipedia<\/u>, the Vera Institute for Justice<\/u> and the governmental watchdog Citizens for Responsibility in Ethics in Washington<\/u>, not to mention major universities. All the federal government, or even a state government, would need to do to launch a DAF freeze is to open an official public investigation. And these major DAFs would then block the targeted organization from receiving funding. <\/p>\n

The implications aren\u2019t confined to the Trump administration. Under this precedent, Democrats holding power could do the same to disfavored nonprofits. Just launching an investigation would cut off a significant part of a targeted organization\u2019s money flow. The defunding or banning of targeted NGOs is exactly what Vladimir Putin did<\/u> in Russia, Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/u> in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/u> in Turkey, and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/u> in Venezuela. It\u2019s a classic way to eliminate opposition and consolidate power. And the anticipatory compliance of Vanguard, Fidelity, and Schwab is the exact kind of response that empowers would-be dictatorships, whatever their politics.<\/p>\n

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If a nonprofit is convicted of fraud or money laundering, it\u2019s of course legitimate to remove or suspend their 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. But SPLC has neither been tried nor convicted, so the DAFs are letting a hostile administration\u2019s mere accusation of wrongdoing become an excuse to block funding. The $326 billion<\/u> of money that DAFs hold is part of the lifeblood of nonprofits. The actions of these DAFs directly undermine democracy by excluding a group the administration has targeted and potentially denying funding to other targeted groups. That\u2019s true whatever you think of SPLC.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s a nonprofit that could weather this, it\u2019s SPLC, with its $786 million endowment<\/u>. I don\u2019t give to them because I think other groups are more impactful for the money they spend. But if the Trump administration and its enablers can do this to SPLC, they can do it to far smaller and more vulnerable nonprofits. For instance, they could target nonpartisan voter engagement groups, drying up funding (including pledged contributions) at the point when these groups need it the most to engage citizens in democracy. Damaging attacks on nonprofit funding also don\u2019t have to come from the federal Department of Justice. Under Fidelity\u2019s criteria, attacks could come from state governments as well, with potential targets including either conservative or liberal groups depending on which party runs a particular state. <\/p>\n

But ordinary citizens have the power to change this. The campaigns that got ABC to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel<\/u> offer a model. This issue has less visibility, but for the nonprofits it could affect is equally critical. If we have money in a DAF, our calls or emails could well make the difference. Schwab told me that they\u2019d been getting lots of critical responses. But even if we don\u2019t have a DAF, nearly 60%<\/u> of us have retirement or other investment accounts, with most housed at the major affiliated brokerages. So we can reach out as well, threatening to switch our investments to brokerages that don\u2019t empower authoritarian initiatives, like TIAA-CREF (at least for now Merrill Lynch\/Bank of America is still putting through grants as well), and, if we have DAF\u2019s, transfer them to ones that haven\u2019t banned SPLC contributions, like Amalgamated Bank, Impact Assets, or Daffy<\/u>.<\/p>\n

A group of socially responsible investment advisors has created a sign-on letter<\/u>. New York\u2019s historic Riverside Church just divested<\/u> $12 million from Vanguard. A long-time activist friend created a leavefidelity.com<\/u> site with cut-and-paste templates to send to the companies involved. The goal is to echo what people did <\/u>in the Kimmel situation when they boycotted the channels, advertisers, and theme park properties of national ABC\/Disney and local Sinclair and Nextstar stations. People also protested in front of affiliated ABC stations\u2014something they could do at the headquarters of the relevant brokerage houses. While DAFs are technically separate entities, they share investment management, administration, and the parent brand, which offers them as an incentive for clients. So we\u2019re far from powerless. <\/p>\n

The job of the brokerage houses is not to police client giving. Their affiliated DAFs need to allow donations to all legitimate nonprofits, whether or not the Trump administration\u2014or any administration\u2014agrees with what they do.<\/p>\n

Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen<\/u> and The Impossible Will Take a Little While<\/u>, with 300,000 copies in print between them. He spent 13 years running nonprofits he founded. <\/p>\n

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