Fidelity Charitable is a donor advised fund which funnels money from wealthy donors to an array of organizations that support Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland, the US military and US security state, the privatization of public education, and other forms of racism, violence, and dispossession.
Donor advised funds like Fidelity Charitable function as recipients of large sums of money from wealthy individuals, which DAFs then channel to those wealthy donors' desired recipient organizations as donations from the DAF without the necessity of public transparency that the donation came from the specific wealthy donor. In this way, Donor Advised Funds allow the wealthy to support organizations without the public necessarily knowing they are doing so or knowing the extent to which they are doing so. Donor Advised Funds do, however, disclose the donor behind a given donation to the charity receiving it, ensuring that while the donors remain anonymous to the public, they still receive attention from and, in some cases, gain influence in the organizations receiving their gifts. (See essay on foundations for more information on DAFs.)
Fidelity Charitable describes itself as "the nation's top grantmaker, distributing $9.1 billion to charities in 2020." As of the end of fiscal year 2020, assets within Fidelity Charitable totaled $35.37 billion. Moreover, Fidelity Charitable has reported that they accrued $15 billion in capital gains on these assets between 2011-2020, gains which faced little to no taxation due to the exemptions from which DAFs benefit.
Fidelity Charitable funnels large sums of money from its donors into Zionist lobbying organizations, think tanks, media outlets, and university initiatives. These include (but are not limited to):
Moreover, Fidelity Charitable funnels money from its donors into organizations which support the US military and US security state. These include (but are not limited to):
Fidelity Charitable also funnels money from its donors into organizations which support the privatization of public education through charter school expansion and/or opposition to teachers unions. These include (but are not limited to):
Fidelity Charitable also funnels money from its donors into local university, medical, science, arts, and advocacy organizations, some of which themselves support Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland and/or support other forms of racism and militarism, and which are accordingly included on our map. These include (but are not limited to):
Beginning in 2019, community members and organizations in Boston launched a coalition called Unmasking Fidelity. The Unmasking Fidelity coalition has called upon Fidelity Charitable to publicly disclose the contributions it made between FY2016 and FY2021 to Alliance Defending Freedom, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, Center for Security Policy, Central Fund of Israel, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation, Family Research Council, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Turning Point USA, and the VDARE Foundation, 10 groups which the coalition states "promote anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Black or anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies that enable white supremacist and fascist violence." The Unmasking Fidelity coalition has also demanded that Fidelity Charitable "share publicly about policies or screens that are currently being used to determine which organizations can receive DAF grants, and provide examples of organizations you have determined will not receive DAF grants based on your criteria."
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Fidelity Charitable funneled $11,561,890 from its donors into Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) in fiscal year 2020 alone. Meanwhile, Combined Jewish Philanthropies funneled $9,530,463 from its donors into the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund from fiscal years 2007-2020.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $5,463,858 from its donors into Boston University.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $2,447,197 from its donors to Brandeis University.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $2,180,500 from its donors into The Broad Institute.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $475,103 from its donors into Clark University.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $279,973 from its donors into Emerson College.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $291,347,363 from its donors into Harvard University.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $1,125,800 from its donors into the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $1,906,119 from its donors to the Boston Museum of Science.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $60,926,847 from its donors into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $1,465,149 from its donors into Northeastern University.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $731,552 from its donors into Suffolk University.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $3,204,678 from its donors into UMass Amherst.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $5,502,369 from its donors into Tufts University.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $564,760 from its donors into Tufts Medical Center.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $5,670,687 from its donors into Wellesley College.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $11,472,761 from its donors to Boston College.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $2,719,846 from its donors to Berklee College of Music.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $63,517,690 from its donors to the ACLU Foundation, as well as $2,880,788 to the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $4,966,678 from its donors into the Navy Seal Foundation.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $3,439,368 from its donors into Friends of the IDF.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $3,024,286 from its donors into the Jewish National Fund - Keren Kayemeth Leisrael - Inc.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $3,284,819 from its donors to the Anti-Defamation League Foundation (ADL).
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $2,719,926 from its donors to the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
In fiscal year 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $191,654 from its donors to American Friends of LIBI.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $1,751,778 from its donors into Facing History and Ourselves.
In fiscal year 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $951,370 from its donors into Gann Academy.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $1,169,654 from its donors into Hadassah and Hadassah Foundation Inc.
In fiscal year 2019 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $279,217 from its donors into J Street Education Fund Inc.
Fidelity Charitable funneled funds from its donors to the Lappin Foundation in FY19, according to Fidelity Charitable's 990 form from that year.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $2,178,241 from its donors into the New Israel Fund.
Fidelity Charitable funneled funds into Yachad in fiscal year 2019, according to Fidelity Charitable's 990 form from that year.
From fiscal years 2019-2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $703,142 from its donors into the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).
In fiscal year 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $1,207,090 from its donors into Friends of the Arava Institute.
In fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $835,717 from its donors into the Zionist Organization of America.
Fidelity Charitable anonmymous funneled funds into the Israeli-American Council in FY19, according to Fidelity Charitable's 990 form from that year.
Through their private philanthropic foundation, Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine have donated $5,000,000 to Fidelity Charitable, a donor advised fund which anonymously funnels money from wealthy donors into Zionist, white supremacist, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-immigrant organizations.
Kraft Family Philanthropies donated $25,000 to the Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund in fiscal year 2005.