How can the NRA Foundation, be an “NRA” anything, if the NRA- let’s say Fairfax, VA (NY Chartered), the board of NRA Fairfax, VA, doesn’t control who’s running the Foundation [More]
Beats me. The Bylaws don’t help. Nor is the relationship explained in the NRA Foundation Annual Report.
The Guidestar profile shows it as its own 501(c)(3) entity. After signing in I was able to access the 2023 Form 990, and it’s not only a lot of money being handled:
Net assets or fund balances… 183,320,169
There’s also this:
Look, I can’t pretend to know what’s going on, but it seems those who do aren’t interested in explaining how things work and where they derive their corporate authority to run the Foundation from. For an entity out there performing community theater and essentially saying we’ve learned our lesson, we’ve reformed, you can trust us now, and send money, you’d think management would know that the only way to even try to win disaffected members back would be complete transparency.
Until it does, those running the show will be doing a better job of burning down the h0use than Leitia James and Alvin Bragg ever could.
And I say all this as an outsider, albeit a life member who has a hard time giving a damn about internal organizational politics, looking in. I burned out on that from my Members Council days, when I decided the most satisfying and productive use of my time would be as a free and unaffiliated observer.
