| I did some background research on this company, looking to see if there's some shady funders. The closest connection appears to be to centrist democratic candidates (some key people worked on Biden/Clintons campaign) - that's fine, I'd expect them to have a political history. Their donations go through actblue (https://www.turnout2020.us/terms/). I also have a few shared connections on linkedin with some people ... the shared connections are all people legitimately interested in democratic participation and community building. It appears to be legitimately connected to its mission statement. The parent org, Democracy Builders Fund, furthermore seems to be headquartered in an apartment in harlem, not say, some lobbying group in DC. It appears to be a paper tiger with zero employees, also fine. Taxes are complicated. Furthermore, there's no other organization headquartered out of there as far as I can tell. Also ignore the salary scale argument, that's just juicing. The parent "organization" pulls in about $600k/year (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/464...), they're trying to pay as much as they can afford since they AREN'T some puppet organization working for like, oil and cigarettes. When it comes to democratic coalition building, a mysteriously opulent organization would be a bad sign. the scrappy accounting is yet another point for them. |