Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is probing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation to determine how the organizations are complying with applicable tax laws given their reported funding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies.
“According to recent reports, [your organizations], through grants and direct payments, have funded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies,” Grassley stated in an October 28, 2025 press release that contained partial text of his letters to each of the foundations. “To maintain tax exempt status, an organization’s activities must be charitable in nature and may not directly support or promote the interests of a foreign government.”
“I am writing today to ask you whether these reports are true or not and, if true, how your organization’s conduct comports with 501(c)(3) requirements,” Grassley continued. The press release then provided these condensed portions from his three letters:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2023 reportedly directed approximately $11.7 million to various arms of the CCP, as well as $2 million to a corporation working with the Chinese military and $6.7 million to state-run Chinese universities. In fiscal year 2022, the nonprofit organization reportedly provided roughly $23 million to over 20 different Chinese entities, some of which were labeled “foreign governments.”
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, from April 2020 to August 2024, reportedly donated $7.4 million to organizations that were part of the CCP, led by members of the CCP or engaged in partnerships with China. Specifically, the nonprofit partnered with the “Society of Entrepreneurs of Ecology Foundation,” which partnered with the CCP to assist the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Ford Foundation, from January 2020 to December 2024, reportedly provided nearly $10 million to the Chinese government to further the Belt and Road Initiative. Most of the Ford Foundation’s Chinese grant funding was reportedly given to state-run, or CCP-run, universities with strong ties to the People’s Liberation Army.
Senator Grassley’s individual letters to each of the three foundations requesting information about specific troubling grants can be accessed here, here, and here.
Administration Support for Investigation
For decades, The New American (since 1985) and our predecessor publications American Opinion (since the 1950s) and The Review of the News (since the 1960s) have published numerous articles exposing the treasonous activities of tax-exempt foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Soros, Tides, et al.) and their massive funding of communist, revolutionary, socialist, subversive organizations and movements. Previous congressional investigations of this criminal treachery have been thwarted by Deep State political and media interference.
There is a difference this time around: Congressional efforts will have the backing of a president in the White House who supports, not thwarts, their efforts. On September 25, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) establishing “a comprehensive strategy to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle all stages of organized political violence and domestic terrorism.” Among other things, it “directs the IRS Commissioner to ensure tax-exempt entities do not directly or indirectly finance political violence or domestic terrorism, referring violators to the Department of Justice.” President Trump has made many statements letting it be known that he understands that the big “philanthropy” foundations have been illegally funding the rent-a-mobs that are plaguing our nation.
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