$280m in ‘dark money,’ 28 organisations, seven different regions – the US Christian Right’s global influence visualised
groups, many of them linked to President Trump’s administration, have spent at least $280m overseas since 2007 – while fighting against women’s and LGBTIQ rights.
Some of these groups have, among other activities, backed court cases against women’s and LGBTIQ rights; campaigned against divorce, same-sex adoption and trans rights; and even supported the death penalty for gay people in Uganda.
In the first-ever global exposé of their spending, openDemocracy scrutinised thousands of pages of these groups’ publicly available annual financial filings in the US, where they are registered as non-profit organisations and are required to disclose some information about their income and expenditure.
The interactive on this page allows you to explore this spending by organisation, region and year. You can also examine it by different categories – for example, you can view all spending by groups that are anti-LGBT or anti-abortion, or connected to the Trump administration or linked to the ultra-conservative World Congress of Families network, which also has increasing ties to far-Right leaders across Europe.
