Guess what?
NOM is in a hole. After posting their 2012 tax form, we learned that NOM is $2.7M in debt. It took some prying from HRC, but now, we see the whole bloody mess.
Here are some pieces to note via Buzzfeed:
- There are mysterious donors on the list
- The organization raised nearly $14.5 million in contributions, with the bulk of it — more than $9.4 million — going to the political advocacy arm
- The advocacy arm also reported receiving more than $1.6 million in reimbursement of expenses
- The largest donor to NOM was a person who gave the organization’s political advocacy arm more than $2.6 million. Another donor gave $1.9 million to the political advocacy arm, while a third gave $1.5 million.
- The political advocacy arm — a 501(c)(4) organization — reported more than $13 million in expenses, with the education arm — a 501(c)(3) organization — reporting a little less than $3.5 million in expenses.
- The organization contributed more than $1 million to the ballot referendum campaigns in Maryland and Washington, as well as to the campaign for a marriage amendment in Minnesota. The organization gave more than $1 million to the “NOM ME Fund,” presumably its contribution to fighting the Maine marriage equality initiative.
3 comments:
the koch brothers, silly. and the catholic church.
Yeah, I saw a copy of the 990 earlier but they redacted the donor names. That's kind of stupid as it IS in fact a PUBLIC record.
There's a big misunderstanding in the United States as to what is public and what is private. If you give money - your name, address, occupation and telephone are PUBLIC. Your voter record is PUBLIC.
You cannot hide behind redacted information.
We call NOM and organizations like them Koch Suckers. They get paid by the Koch brothers and rely on them like parasites.
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