The many different initiatives reflects the wide and often shifting goals of the organization, which we discuss next.Ĭhelsea Clinton, the foundation’s vice chair, receives a gift from a Haitian girl during a 2015 trip. This group of organizations, which includes the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP), is collectively called “The Clinton Foundation.” The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation is essentially the “parent” organization of various initiatives and offshoots, a few of which have been (at times) legally distinct from yet remain controlled by the parent. The remaining $6.96 million went to a variety of charities, both local and national, aimed at varied causes ranging from education to health care to the environment. Of that, $2.86 million (29 percent) went to initiatives tied to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the main operating public charity they founded in 1998.
It acts like any other private foundation in that the family makes donations to it, and the organization (over time) disburses funds to operating public charities.įrom 2010 to 2014, the Clintons gave US$10.2 million of their income to the Family Foundation, which disbursed $9.8 million to charities over the same period. We start with what organizations make up the network of Clinton charities.įirst up is the Clinton Family Foundation, which was set up in 2001 as a private foundation to direct the family’s own personal giving but doesn’t engage in any charitable activities of its own. Samantha Sais/Reuters What are the Clinton charities? The Clintons discuss their university initiative in 2014. As we will see, the answers reveal an interesting and complex organization that may warrant critique but also deserves credit for its ambition and innovation. While the inner workings of the organization are left to insiders, we fortunately have access to public financial disclosures that help provide answers to these questions.
Even if often wrapped up in political rancor, the public interest in the Clinton family’s charities provides an opportunity to look closely at what they actually are, what they do and how their money is used.
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The scrutiny of the Clintons’ charities has extended to Trump’s much smaller foundation as well, including a just-announced investigation by the New York attorney general and a series by The Washington Post.Īs a researcher focused on nonprofit finances, I am not accustomed to seeing such widespread interest in the sources and uses of funds by charities. As a result, the largest arm of their charitable organization this week said it would become an independent organization if Hillary Clinton is elected president. They’ve been accused of wasting funds, offering access to donors and even serving as a personal “piggy bank” for the Clinton family. Charities tied to the Clinton family have received seemingly endless scrutiny throughout the presidential campaign.
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