The NAACP has received funding from the AT&T Foundation,[39] the Bauman Family Foundation,[40] the Carnegie Corporation of New York,[41] the Annie E. Casey Foundation,[42] the Freddie Mac Foundation,[43] the Ford Foundation,[44]the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,[45] the JEHT Foundation,[46] the Joyce Foundation,[47] the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,[48] the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,[49] the Open Society Institute,[50] the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,[51] the Rockefeller Foundation,[52] the Sara Lee Foundation,[53] the Scherman Foundation,[54] the Verizon Foundation,[55] the Tides Foundation[56] and Boeing.[57]
In the 2010-11 fiscal year, the National Education Association (the largest labor union in the United States) donated $25,000 to the NAACP.[58]
Leadership (as of August 2010)President/CEO: Benjamin Jealous (2007 salary: $93,020)
Chief of Staff: Roger Vann
Senior Vice President: Dennis Hayes (2007 salary: $226,857)
Director to the NAACP’s Washington Bureau: Hillary Shelton (2007 salary: $113,670)
Client Profile: Summary, 2017
A special interest's lobbying activity may go up or down over time, depending on how much attention the federal government is giving their issues. Particularly active clients often retain multiple lobbying firms, each with a team of lobbyists, to press their case for them.
Total Lobbying Expenditures: $481,750
Subtotal for Subsidiary NAACP Legal Defense Fund: $273,000
Subtotal for Parent NAACP: $208,750
NAACP Lobbying by IndustryIndustryTotalHum an Rights$481,750
Itemized Lobbying Expenses for NAACPFirms HiredTotal Reported by FilerReported Contract Expenses (included in Total Reported by Filer)NAACP$208,750- $0
Italicized records not included in Total Reported by Filer
Lobbying Expenses Reported by Subsidiary NAACP Legal Defense FundFirms HiredTotal Reported by FilerReported Contract Expenses (included in Total Reported by Filer)NAACP Legal Defense Fund$273,000
Black Activists Criticize Use of Taxpayer Funds to Buy New NAACP Headquarters
Group's New Offices May Also Hurt Black Neighbors
Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are critical of the District of Columbia City Council's vote to give the NAACP $3.5 million in taxpayer money to relocate the NAACP's headquarters from Baltimore to the nation's capitol. The NAACP is not a revenue-generating industry and does not pay the full range of DC taxes due to its nonprofit status, Project 21 members say, and also point out that the economic revitalization cited by proponents may actually hurt poor black Washingtonians.
"Given the District's precarious financial state and its trouble with education and transportation budgets, it's outrageous to use taxpayer money to subsidize the NAACP's relocation," said Project 21 Fellow Deneen Moore. "Instead, the NAACP should rely on the support of its donors to pay for its expansion and relocation."
NAACP tax status questioned
By Steve Miller and Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People claims to be nonpartisan, but it uses its millions of dollars to promote the Democrat's agenda.
Conservative critics question its claim to nonprofit status, arguing that the exemption shelters its $14 million annual budget from being taxed, and note that in the most recent presidential campaign the NAACP, which once derided big money as a corrupting influence, established two independent fund-raising organizations to conduct the kind of political warfare it once denounced.
The NAACP National Voter Fund and Americans for Equality drew on a combined $10 million to finance get-out-the-vote efforts and issue ads that energized Democratic voters.
"This is a group that, because of its politics, has become far removed from its constituents," says Phyllis Berry Myers, executive director of the Center for New Black Leadership, which leans Republican. "It survives through teachers unions, labor unions. . . . They allow themselves to be the sole subsidiary of the Democratic Party, and it has done a great disservice to black voters. It makes us politically impotent."
