American Freedom Alliance
Type of Organization: Politics, Grassroots, Education The American Freedom Alliance (AFA) is a non-profit organization which, according to its mission statement, “promotes, defends, and upholds Western values and ideals” through sponsored conferences, publications, and networking groups. the AFA acts as a grassroots organizer, hosting conferences and forming coalitions amongst like-minded entities and individuals. Its conferences […]
Gatestone Institute
Type of Organization: Media, Politics According to its website, the Gatestone Institute claims to be “a non-partisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think tank, dedicated to educating the public about what the mainstream media fails to report in promoting human rights, institutions of democracy and the rule of law, etc.” Gatestone’s founder, Nina Rosenwald, is […]
Shoebat Foundation
The Shoebat Foundation is an organization linked to fake former terrorist Walid Shoebat. While Shoebat’s website announces the latest news from the Foundation, CAIR researchers can find no evidence that the group has ever filed paperwork with the IRS. Further muddying the waters of transparency, is a banner on Shoebat.com announcing a “New Shoebat Foundation […]
Center for the Study of Political Islam
The Center for the Study of Political Islam is a think tank founded by Bill French, who also goes by the alias Bill Warner. The think tank’s mission is “to educate the world about political Islam, its founder Mohammed, his political doctrine and his god, Allah.” French has said, “Let me be clear: I do […]
F.M. Kirby Foundation
The F.M. Kirby Foundation was established in 1931 by one of the founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company. The foundation has made routine payments to an inner core Islamophobic organization. Grants tend to be awarded based on an already established relationship between the grantee and a member of the Kirby family. According to the foundation’s […]
Randolph Foundation
The New York-based Randolph Foundation was originally a trust of the Smith Richardson Foundation but became its own distinct entity around 1993. The foundation has granted money to a number of organizations in the inner core of the U.S. Islamophobia Network. Between 2011 and 2013, the foundation provided $140,000 in funds to groups dedicated to […]
Allegheny Foundation
The Allegheny Foundation is one of a group of three grantors known collectively as the Scaife Foundations. The Foundation “concentrates its giving in the Western Pennsylvania area and confines most of its grant awards to programs for historic preservation, civic development and education.” Over a five-year period, $600,000 was gifted to the David Horowitz Freedom […]
Stephen Harold Schimmel Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Stephen Harold Schimmel Foundation is a California-based, private, tax-exempt entity founded in 1995. According to its tax filings, the president, secretary, and treasurer of the Foundation is Rosalba Schimmel, the wife of millionaire Stephen Harold Schimmel. There is little other publicly available information about the Schimmels’ or the Foundation. Between […]
Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
Type: Private Family Foundation Established by the late entrepreneur Newton Becker in 2006, the California-based Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust is a private, tax-exempt charitable foundation possessing millions in revenue. The Trust’s grantmaking focuses exclusively on Jewish organizations including the Zionist Organization of America and Birthright Israel. Between 2014 and 2016, the Trust poured […]
Family Security Matters
Family Security Matters is a conservative news source sponsored by Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy. The site regularly carries Islamophobic articles. In “The Fraudulent Frankenstein of Islam” Edward Cline asserts, “[Islam] is a totalitarian horror patched together by successive generations of cackling, malevolent mystics and haters of life stretching back twelve centuries.” Contributing Editor […]
