Philanthropy Today

Facing a loss of nearly $3 billion in federal grants and contracts for research, Harvard University is pulling $250 million out of its general fund to fill in some of the gaps. University president Alan M. Garber has also announced he will take a 25 percent pay cut. Nine agencies have frozen funding to Harvard, at the behest of the Trump administration’s task force on antisemitism, and the university has sued the administration in turn. Garber and the university’s provost told the Harvard community that the infusion is meant to help the university weather a transition period as it searches for other sources of funding. The move comes as Congress considers legislation that would place an additional tax on nonprofit leaders’ annual compensation greater than $1 million. The university has not disclosed Garber’s salary, but his predecessors each earned roughly $1 million a year. (Boston Globe)

Elon Musk’s DOGE team unsuccessfully sought to embed a member with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting the day after President Trump attempted to fire three members of the corporation’s board in April. CPB’s executive vice president and general counsel rebuffed DOGE’s overture, explaining in a letter that because the CPB is an independent agency, “neither DOGE, the GSA, nor any other component of the executive branch has any role supervising or having any activity relating to CPB.” The corporation is suing the administration over the attempted firings, and it argues that a subsequent executive order to end federal funding for the organization is also illegal. (NPR)

• Background from the Chronicle: First, the Vera Institute of Justice Lost Its Federal Grants. Then DOGE Called

More on Trump vs. Harvard

• Opinion: Hurting Harvard and MIT Doesn’t Help America (Boston Globe)
• Harvard Funding Cuts Approach $3 Billion as More Federal Agencies Join Trump’s Pressure Campaign (Boston Globe)
• Harvard Adds to Legal Complaint Against Trump Administration (New York Times)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Harvard, Public Trust, and a Warning for the Nonprofit Sector

Big Philanthropy

• Opinion: The Boom Years of Global Charity Are Over. What Comes Next? (New York Times)
• Opinion: Is The Era of the Benevolent Billionaire Really Over? (Fast Company)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: The Gates Foundation, the World’s Biggest Philanthropy, Announces Plans to Shutter in 2045
• Abigail Disney Urges Donors to Be Braver About Their Giving and Shouldering More Risk (Associated Press)

Federal Cuts, Tax Threats

• Nonprofits Face Higher Taxes in GOP Bill (Barron’s— subscription)
• Republican Tax Provision to Punish ‘Terrorism Supporting’ Nonprofits Slammed by Critics (Guardian)
• Judge In R.I. Halts Trump Order Targeting Agencies Supporting Libraries, Museums, and Minority-Owned Businesses (Boston Globe)
• Opinion: Every Good Authoritarian Knows Art Is Dangerous. That’s Why Trump Is Gutting the NEA. (Boston Globe)
  
  • Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

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