SPECIAL REPORT - How America’s Great Philanthropic Foundations Are Corrupting Their

The foundation has adopted a DEI statement, with language nearly identical to that of dozens of other large foundations that focus on skin-color identity groups.4 The foundation is committed to “antiracism,” a concept developed by radical leftwing legal professors from the 1970s and 1980s that is not, in fact, opposed to racism, but is a component of the Marxism-derived theory known as critical ra. [...] And the larger the philanthropy, the longer the reach of that organization’s commitment to radical causes. [...] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a science philanthropy, is the fourth-largest foundation in the world according to ARCO, a research organization studying philanthropic organizations.26 With the support of the foundation’s benefactor, industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes, doc- tors and scientists created the foundation in 1953 to be a “steady operating organization with its own labor. [...] Now, the institute wants people to be hired based on skin color and “gender,” stating that it wants to build “a workforce that fully reflects the racial, ethnic, and gender demographics” of the country.28 The institute announced that in 2021 it devoted $2 billion “to increase racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in science.” Today, HHMI notes it has placed “equity at the center of policies and pra. [...] There is an imperative to ensure that climate finance is more attuned to issues of social inequities and to incorporate the goals of climate justice in the work of reversing climate change.62 Climate change, then, is the result of racism and sexism: “98.7 per- cent of investment power is with white men,” says Tracy Gray of The 22 Fund, adding that 14 HOW AMERICA’S GREAT PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS A.