There are now about 70 separate gun control lobby groups, virtually all 501c3. It has become so big that there is in fact even a multi million dollar per year organization whose sole activity is to force companies to break any relationship with the NRA.
Here is the organization:
https://gunsdownamerica.org/
Here its founding "charitable" foundation. It is home depot founder's former wife and daughter, which among the ~$50 million or so it spends on gun control adovacy funs this ~$5 million effort to get companies to denounce the NRA:
https://kendedafund.org/grantee/coordinating-strategies-reduce-gun-violence-2/
This foundation's ~$50 million per year is not even in the top five of foundations pushing gun control. by my calculations NRA is now outspent about 20:1-- about 90% of the anti second amendment adovacy being 501(c)3 charitable founding.
In fact there is another 501(c)3 whose only activity is to help gun control adovacy groups move as much spending to 501(c)3 eligible spending!
Adovacy of gun control is the PERFECT way to play partisan politics since it allows driving hundred of millions into adovacy and lobbying yet doing virtually all of it with charitable (ie deductible) spending. giving is also opaque. People complain about Citizens United type money -- none of that is tax deductible and it all has to be filed with the FEC and fully available to the public in terms of disclosure. This gun control money is huge and virtually completely hidden form easy discovery.
Here is the organization:
https://gunsdownamerica.org/
Here its founding "charitable" foundation. It is home depot founder's former wife and daughter, which among the ~$50 million or so it spends on gun control adovacy funs this ~$5 million effort to get companies to denounce the NRA:
https://kendedafund.org/grantee/coordinating-strategies-reduce-gun-violence-2/
This foundation's ~$50 million per year is not even in the top five of foundations pushing gun control. by my calculations NRA is now outspent about 20:1-- about 90% of the anti second amendment adovacy being 501(c)3 charitable founding.
In fact there is another 501(c)3 whose only activity is to help gun control adovacy groups move as much spending to 501(c)3 eligible spending!
Adovacy of gun control is the PERFECT way to play partisan politics since it allows driving hundred of millions into adovacy and lobbying yet doing virtually all of it with charitable (ie deductible) spending. giving is also opaque. People complain about Citizens United type money -- none of that is tax deductible and it all has to be filed with the FEC and fully available to the public in terms of disclosure. This gun control money is huge and virtually completely hidden form easy discovery.