Helen Flannery

Donors opposing Mamdani Name Amount Donated Group(s) Supported Net Worth Michael Bloomberg $8.3 million Fix the City $110 billion Joseph Gebbia $3 million Fix the City · Defend NYC · Put NYC First $7.9 billion Lauder family $2.6 million Fix the City · Sensible City $25.9 billion Bill Ackman $1.75 million Fix the City · Defend NYC $9.2 billion Tisch family $1.2 million Fix the City $10.1 billion John Hess & family $1 million Fix the City $2.4 billion Daniel Loeb $775,000 Fix the City · Defend NYC · NYers for a Better Future $3.8 billion Barry Diller $500,000 Fix the City $5.1 billion Steve Wynn $500,000 Fix the City $3.9 billion Marcella Guarino Hymowitz $400,000 Fix the City · Put NYC First $2 billion David Walentas $350,000 Fix the City · Empower NYC $2.3 billion Reed Hastings $250,000 Fix the City $6.5 billion John Fish $250,000 Fix the City $2.3 billion David Lichtenstein $250,000 Fix the City · NYers for a Better Future $2 billion Alice Walton $200,000 Fix the City $115 billion Deborah Simon $200,000 Fix the City $11.6 billion Jerry Speyer $150,000 Fix the City $2.2 billion Stephanie Coleman $150,000 Fix the City $7.1 billion (family)

Everybody gets that Bloomberg is the main reason Cuomo is still afloat, right?

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This is it. It ain't easy but it's how we win. The only way out is through. ❤️

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

An Open Letter to the Boss You’re a billionaire now, Mr. Springsteen. Please don’t stay one.

What do you do when you work on wealth inequality and your childhood hero becomes a billionaire? You write them a letter.
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#Springsteen #Billionaire
@inequality.org

The Giving Pledge at 15 15 years on, the Giving Pledge is unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future.

NEW: Hundreds of rich people have signed the Giving Pledge to donate half of their wealth. 15 years on, their lack of progress shows our critical need to fix philanthropy — and tax them more.

REPORT by @chuck77.bsky.social, @bdevaan.bsky.social, @helenofips.bsky.social and @dpetegorsky.bsky.social:

This link between privilege dependence and rule breaking is also why private charity can't substitute for a tax-funded social safety net. Because, like with the public school example, even well-meaning nonprofits can end up reproducing inequalities when they have to cater to wealthy donors. 4/

Yes, America Is an Oligarchy Over the past dozen or so years, about half the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has benefited just 19 families.

An insightful new statistical analysis of American #inequality from Bob Lord of @ips-dc.org and @patrioticmillionaires.org: “Since 2012, the concentration in our country’s wealth has almost entirely been limited to just our richest 0.01 percent.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🔴 Watch the Henry Wallace Symposium LIVE: us02web.zoom.us/j/85433611380

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit

Holy shit, a real masks-off moment. Trump's IRS says churches can continue to claim tax benefits as a nonprofit even while explicitly endorsing candidates.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

FlowingData An exploration of how we use analysis and visualization to understand data and ourselves.

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New Study Shines a Light on the Impact of Donor-Advised Funds - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly Where do DAF dollars go—and how quickly do these donor dollars actually arrive at operating nonprofits? The answers, derived from a new study, may be surprising.

New Study Shines a Light on the Impact of Donor-Advised Funds nonprofitquarterly.org/new-study-sh... @chuck77.bsky.social‬ @helenofips.bsky.social‬ @ips-dc.org #nonprofits

For #nonprofitsky 🤝

Can Trump strip Harvard of its charitable status? Scholars of nonprofit law and accounting describe the obstacles in his way The IRS would need to conduct an audit first. And presidents aren’t allowed to make the IRS do that.

Insightful conversation here from @eotaxprof.bsky.social and @countingcharity.bsky.social #nonprofitsky
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

The average American has three friends

OH and @rjschlegel.info :-)

Tagging for #nonprofitsky 🤝... #ARNOVA ... #NVSQ ...

And my team at @inequality.org @ips-dc.org
@dpetegorsky.bsky.social @bdevaan.bsky.social @chuck77.bsky.social @rachelleighcash.bsky.social!

New research with @helenofips.bsky.social on donor-advised funds (DAFs) now in NVSQ:

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A short thread. 1/4

Or — hear me out — we could all pool our money together and hire experts to do the research for us, thus creating a "center" for disease control and prevention.

I never thought I'd say this but Michigan 🤝 OSU
#GoBlue #GoBucs

Doctors: We've been warned criticism of OSU's dangerous DEI decision will be squashed |Letter Ohio State's anti-DEI decisions will directly impact the health and well-being of students, staff and patients at the Wexner Medical Center.

I don’t have words…

OSU student Ahwar Sultan discusses his visa revocation and the case filed against the Trump administration.

OSU faculty senate votes in favor of B1G Mutual Defense Compact (76% voted yes).

OSU 🤝 Michigan

Columbia has signed. Dartmouth remains the lone ivy league hold out

If fear is the goal, then solidarity is the antidote As nonprofits become Trump's next target, the lesson so far is that standing together is the only way forward.

"He may declare 'I’m revoking the IRS status of your organization!' Right away, you should not just cave and comply. Instead, hear it as: 'Trump wants us to believe he can revoke the IRS status.' This flies in the face of 26 U.S. Code § 7217..."

Motion 1: Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise Option Votes Yes 2761 (92.8%) No 214 (7.2%)

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

Another class of nonprofits slated for political targeting.

Full statement of support for international scholars by the Ohio State chapter of @aaup.bsky.social (@osuaaup.bsky.social), including specific commitments to action steps: 👇

Absolutely my reaction

American Crying People cry for different reasons and some tend to cry more than others. What makes people cry the most?

It's okay, men. You chop those onions. flowingdata.com/2025/04/17/a...