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Hate and extremist groups have received upward of $23 million in cash from 鈥渄onor-advised funds,鈥� recently released forms show. At the same time, hate groups and extremist figures who are no longer able to take part in the lucrative world of traditional finance聽continue to solicit thousands of dollars in bitcoin donations.听

Piggy bank for hate: 2021 donor-advised funds 990 roundup

Numerous hate and extremist groups are structured as tax-exempt charitable or nonprofit organizations. Some of these groups also receive payments from other umbrella charity distribution organizations called 鈥渄onor-advised funds.鈥� The 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Intelligence Project and other media organizations have reported 聽that donor-advised funds can act as a consistent and significant source of income for groups peddling a variety of hateful and extremist beliefs.

Intelligence Project researchers and the Data Lab reviewed the recently released 2021 annual reports (called Form 990s) from six popular donor-advised funds to determine which hate- and extremism-related nonprofits were receiving funding:

White nationalist group VDARE聽received $108,000 from two donor-advised funds in fiscal year 2021.

The Center for Immigration Studies, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)聽and Numbers USA, all anti-immigrant聽groups co-founded by John Tanton, received over $3.8 million from donor-advised funds. Vanguard funneled $3 million of that total from Vanguard to NumbersUSA.

David Horowitz聽Freedom Center, an anti-Muslim group, received over $680,000 from five donor-advised funds.

Five of these six charity umbrella organizations conveyed considerable funds to anti-LGBTQ+ groups, including $2.9 million to Alliance Defending Freedom, $173,000 to the American Family Association, $527,000 to the Family Research Council聽and $61,000 to Liberty Counsel.

Parents Defending Education, a reactionary 鈥減arents rights鈥� group listed by 澳彩开奖 in the antigovernment category聽for the first time in 2022, also received over a million dollars from four of these donor-advised funds in fiscal year 2021.

Five of the donor-advised funds also funneled over $3.5 million into Project Veritas, a hard-right group known for 鈥嬧�媝roducing propaganda resulting from hidden-video sting operations.

The largest beneficiary in this study was another hard right group, Turning Point USA, which received over $9 million. The majority of these funds, over $7.4 million, came through the Bradley Impact Fund. The Bradley Impact Fund website describes the fund as a 鈥渘ationwide network of educated, conservative donors working together to preserve American principles and values vital to achieving the American dream鈥� and 鈥渁 donor-advised fund for conservatives.鈥� The Bradley Impact Fund is part of the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Harry Bradley was also a of the conspiracist John Birch Society.听

Patrick Casey receives $76,000 in bitcoin donations in year-long relationship with 鈥榤egadonor鈥�

Patrick Casey, host of the 鈥淩estoring Order鈥� podcast and former leader聽of now-defunct white nationalist groups Identity Evropa and American Identity Movement, has received over $76,000 from a single donor who has sent Casey bitcoin worth several thousand dollars once per month since mid-2022. The donor skipped his payment this May but made up for it in June with an $18,000 payment.

On two of these occasions 鈥� July 7, 2022, and Dec. 8, 2022 鈥� this same donor also sent bitcoin worth $634 to an address associated with .

鈥楪ypsy Crusader鈥� receives thousands in bitcoin while in federal custody

Paul Miller, who uses the alias 鈥淕ypsy Crusader鈥� online, is a white supremacist social media personality who is known for using video chat sites like Omegle and Monkey to harass and torment other users with racial slurs and rants about Hitler while dressed in a Joker costume. Miller was sentenced to prison in 2021 for , and was transferred to house arrest on Jan. 31 of this year.

, Miller revived his practice of soliciting bitcoin donations in support of his online antics, drumming up over $5,000 from dozens of fans. According to a Data Lab analysis, two of these donations, worth approximately $38 when they were transferred to Miller on April 12, appear to be sent from proceeds extorted by someone using 聽made by Kodex.

Miller also accepts cryptocurrency payments for merchandise, including posters reading 鈥渁ccelerate hate鈥� and patches with the totenkopf skull and crossbones worn by German SS in World War II and more recently by U.S.-based neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division.

More recently, Miller has moved to video livestreaming platform Odysee and crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, both of which allow donors to pay Miller using credit cards.

R.G. Cravens contributed to this report.

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