NRA Foundation Triples Down on Not Being Transparent [More]
At this point, any gun owner who puts a dime down on this shell game is a willingly ignorant mark.
John Petrolino is doing real investigative journalism here.
Eyes on the Pea
Tag: NRA Foundation
Shaking the Foundation
These bylaw changes removed the republic-like representation that members had on the Foundation board. Since these changes were never made public, what’s that say to the donor who thought their money would be looked after at the Foundation by mostly NRA directors? (At least one donor did ask the Foundation about bylaw changes and who serves as trustees on the Foundation board prior to this lawsuit was filed and that donor/NRA member was ignored.) [More]
If this in-your-face transparency obstruction doesn’t bother you, go ahead and support them. You know what they say.
They’re incoporated in DC, which does not require Bylaws to be filed.
IRS does, however, albeit “they may only represent the original version filed at that time,” meaning changes may not be accessible. I’d suggest filing one of these just in case, but this is John’s story, I don’t want to step on toes, and for all I know he did and I missed where he reported on that.
The Plot Thickens
NRA Foundation Changed Bylaws to Cut NRA BOD Out of Governance [More]
I was wondering why the bylaws were so hard to find.
It certainly reduces incentive for any member to donate a dime to Foundation efforts. Especially if its name is forced to change.
Anybody know if the Board is going to establish a replacement fundraising arm securely under its control, or is the aim to wrest control of the Foundation?
House Upon the Sand
Website Registered Last Year a Sign the NRA Foundation Planned on a Split? [More]
Forget lack of transparency– they’re being deliberately obfuscatory, which means any NRA member supporting their efforts is asking for more of what allowed the whole mess in the first place.
Here’s the 2022 990. And I looked them up in DC Corporations and what’s there doesn’t tell us much.
Anybody got a copy of the Foundation bylaws?
Who ARE Those Guys?
The saga of NRA v. NRA Foundation does not seem to be settling down. A new website has been published and it alleges to share so-called “facts” on the conflict… The issue with the website is that its authenticity cannot be verified. [More]
Or as Butch Cassidy asked:
[Via Nicholas]
UPDATES
Since the Foundation url now reverts to NRA, here’s a recent Wayback Machine crawl of the old site.
A House Divided
Wednesday interview with @GunOwnersRadio discussing @NRA v. NRAF. We discussed all the info I had at the time. I suspect I’ll have more to report this upcoming week. [More]
And There Was War in Heaven
National Rifle Association Sues Sister Organization NRA Foundation [More]
Some of us have been noticing shaky foundations for some time, including Nicholas at 2A White Rook, who has been asking questions of people who don’t want to answer.
John Petrolino peels back some layers and shows us we’ve been right to raise concerns.
Shaking the Foundation
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.
