In 2020 and 2021, the organization took in a total of $6.3 million from donors it kept anonymous.
And despite repeated questions about the identity of two donors who appear to have made up nearly a quarter of their donations last year, ProPublica declined to name them to The Post or explain how they donated to the organization.
Some donors opt to donate through Donor Advised Funds which do not require them to disclose who they are. Still, other contributors are listed as “anonymous,” using the New York address of ProPublica, according to federal filings.
The conservative activists, who did not want to be named, were irked most recently by ProPublica’s bombshell April report detailing what they called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ “beneficial relationship” with billionaire and Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow — which involved Thomas [above right] vacationing with Crow on his yacht and his private jet. Thomas never disclosed these gifts.
“I’m sure in their own minds they are righteous warriors for truth and justice,” said one conservative activist of the nonprofit’s reporters.
“But I know bulls–t when I see it. Among other things, they’re running a very aggressive campaign to target conservative justices of the [Supreme] Court,” the activist added.
“They act all righteous and preening faux-objectivity as if they’re moral giants and we’re knuckle-dragging animals. It’s ridiculous.”
Since it was founded in 2007, ProPublica has won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for a story published in The New York Times Magazine and stirred controversy by publishing billionaires’ leaked tax secrets.
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