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美国公共信任组织记录了523个团体及逾1.2万笔外国对免税组织的捐款记录
作者：莱奥·布里塞尼奥，福克斯新闻
发布于 2026年7月31日 7:00am EDT | 更新于 2026年7月31日 7:09am EDT
众议员杰森·史密斯揭露非营利组织重大违规行为
密苏里州共和党众议员杰森·史密斯在《生命、自由与莱文秀》节目中揭露了外国政府、亿万富翁与美国非营利组织之间的关联。
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美国公共信任组织是一家政府透明度倡导团体，该组织近日推出了一个新数据库，追踪了逾50亿美元用于资助美国政治活跃型非营利组织的外国支出。
这个同类首创工具旨在打造一个可搜索的数据库，收录了523个团体及12090笔外国对非营利组织的捐款记录。根据1969年《税收改革法案》通过的相关条款，当前法律并未要求这些非营利组织披露捐赠者姓名。该数据库也印证了一些议员的警告：这些捐款正对美国舆论产生超出比例的影响。
在今年早些时候的一场相关听证会上，众议院筹款委员会主席、密苏里州共和党众议员杰森·史密斯抨击了非营利组织享有的、他认为正遭滥用的特权。
克鲁兹推动法案追责免税赞助方，司法部调查辛加姆网络
众议院筹款委员会主席、密苏里州共和党众议员杰森·史密斯在周二的听证会上就延长特朗普减税政策期限发表讲话。（众议院筹款委员会供图）
“现状显然令人无法接受。免税资格是一项特权，而非一项权利。它的存在是为了支持那些能够强化我们社区的合法慈善与教育工作，而非充当外国宣传、选举干预或损害我国国家利益活动的保护伞，”史密斯在一份新闻稿中表示。
福克斯新闻数字频道目前未掌握证据表明司法部正在调查该数据库中所列团体或考虑对其任何刑事行为提起指控。
但美国公共信任组织执行主任凯特琳·萨瑟兰认为，这种情况或许应该改变——法律本身也应该做出调整。
“这正是问题所在。外国影响力渗透我们的政治体系本应属于非法行为，但目前并非如此。我们的数据库旨在为他们提供所需信息，以堵住这些漏洞，一劳永逸地解决问题，”萨瑟兰说道。
该工具允许用户搜索特定组织及其捐款记录。它还提供了捐款流入美国政坛的时间线——有些捐款就在最近的选举周期内，有些则可追溯至2007年。
当被问及为何此前从未出现过类似工具时，萨瑟兰表示，非营利组织的定位掩盖了流入资金的规模。
“‘非营利组织’这个词，会让人联想到给无家可归者递汤、为孤儿接种疫苗的场景。‘非营利组织’并不一定意味着帮助有需要的人。在美国，非营利组织已经彻底演变成了庞大的实体，从事游说和公共政策相关活动，”萨瑟兰说道。
“如今的非营利组织早已不是几十年前的样子了。”
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萨瑟兰还解释称，由于非营利组织的定义范围广泛，这些组织对资金用途拥有极大的自由度。
“外国资金可以用于动员选民投票，可以用于收集选票，还可以用于 ballot 议题竞选以及在全国各地爆发的抗议活动，”萨瑟兰说道。
众议院筹款委员会主席史密斯认为，该数据库可能很快就会揭示这些组织之间的关联。
“该数据库证实了筹款委员会数月来一直在揭露的事实：外国资金正通过旨在掩盖真实来源的空壳基金和中介机构流入美国免税部门，以影响美国的政策制定和公共舆论。美国公共信任组织所发现的问题规模和范围令人担忧，这进一步凸显了通过我们的法案、一劳永逸地堵住这些漏洞的必要性，”史密斯说道。
根据现行法律，非营利组织无需披露捐款来源。
当前政策框架的支持者认为，如果公开捐赠者信息，捐赠者可能会因捐款行为遭到骚扰。倡导自由市场、有限政府和联邦制的州级智库美国立法交换委员会（ALEC）就持这一立场。
“捐赠者披露与捐赠者隐私都是非常重要的议题。不幸的是，许多捐赠者披露倡议者并未关注政府透明度和个人隐私，反而试图通过立法要求披露个人信息——比如美国人的姓名和家庭住址，以此恐吓这些捐赠者，让他们不敢为自己最关心的事业捐款，”该组织在其网站上写道。
“第一修正案保护言论自由和结社自由，但许多捐赠者披露法案的目的，却是恐吓人们不要与政府可能不喜欢的组织和理念结社。”
即便如此，萨瑟兰认为选民不应该只能通过现有的零星报道来了解外国资金的流向。她解释称，由于国际捐款的法律标准各不相同，获取相关文件尤其困难。
“这意味着我们受制于其他国家的法律，而这些国家可能不必向美国申报汇出的资金；比如，接收资金的团体名单，而外国慈善机构不一定需要公布相同的信息，”萨瑟兰说道。
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凯特琳·萨瑟兰，美国公共信任组织执行主任（美国公共信任组织供图）
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“目前没有针对外国慈善机构的中央欧洲登记系统，所以我们只能依靠外国慈善机构的年度报告和赠款数据库，拼凑出这些信息。我们认为这应该是一件简单的事，”她补充道。
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Watchdog unleashes database to expose ‘loopholes’ as $5B in foreign cash floods US nonprofits
July 31, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News
Americans for Public Trust cataloged 523 groups and over 12,000 records of foreign contributions to tax-exempt organizations
By Leo Briceno, Fox News
Published July 31, 2026 7:00am EDT | Updated July 31, 2026 7:09am EDT
Rep Jason Smith uncovers major not-for-profit abuses
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., reveals the connection between foreign governments, billionaires and not-for-profits in the United States on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’
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Americans for Public Trust, a government transparency advocacy group, is releasing a new database that tracks more than $5 billion in foreign spending, bankrolling politically active nonprofits in the U.S.
The tool, the first of its kind, aims to provide a searchable database that catalogs 523 groups and 12,090 records of foreign contributions to nonprofit organizations that, under current law, aren’t required to disclose the names of their donors, stemming from provisions passed under the Tax Reform Act of 1969. The database also reinforces the cautionary warnings from some lawmakers that those contributions are having an outsized influence on American discourse.
At a hearing on the matter earlier this year, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., blasted the privileges that nonprofits enjoy that he believes are being abused.
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Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., talks during Tuesday’s hearing about making Trump’s tax cuts permanent.(House Ways & Means)
“It is clear the status quo is unacceptable. Tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a right. It exists to support legitimate charitable and educational work that strengthens our communities, not to serve as cover for foreign propaganda, election interference, or activities that undermine our national interest,” Smith said in a press release.
Fox News Digital is not aware of evidence that the Department of Justice is investigating or considering charges against groups in the database with any criminal behavior.
But Caitlin Sutherland, executive director for Americans for Public Trust, thinks maybe that should change — that the law itself should change.
“That’s exactly the problem. It should be illegal for foreign influence to permeate our political system and right now it’s not. Our database is designed to give them the information they need to address these loopholes and close them once and for all,” Sutherland said.
The tool allows users to search specific organizations and their contributions. It also provides a timeline of when the contributions were injected into the American scene — some as recent as the past election cycle, others stretching back to 2007.
When asked why some form of similar tool hasn’t existed until now, Sutherland said the idea of nonprofits has disguised the amount of money coming in.
“The term nonprofit, it conjures up an image of putting soup in a homeless person’s bowl, vaccinating orphans. The term nonprofit does not necessarily mean helping the needy. In the United States, nonprofits have really, really morphed into these huge entities. That are engaging in lobbying and public policy,” Sutherland said.
“The nonprofits of today are not what we have seen in decades past.”
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Sutherland also explained that because of a wide-ranging definition for what qualifies as a nonprofit, organizations have a wide latitude for what they want to do with that money.
“Foreign money can pay for get-out-the-vote drives. It can be spent on ballot harvesting. It can be spent on ballot issue campaigns, protests that are emerging across the country,” Sutherland said.
Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, believes the database may soon shed light on the relationships between the groups.
“This database confirms what the Ways and Means Committee has been exposing for months: foreign money is flowing into America’s tax-exempt sector through shell funds and intermediaries designed to hide where it actually came from to influence American policymaking and our public discourse. The size and scope of the problem that Americans for Public Trust has identified is concerning, further underscoring the need to pass our legislation and close these loopholes once and for all,” Smith said.
Under current law, nonprofits aren’t required to disclose the source of their donations.
Supporters of the current policy framework argue that donors could receive harassment for their contributions if they were made public. That’s the position of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a state-level think tank that advocates for free markets, limited government and federalism.
“Donor disclosure and donor privacy are very important issues. Unfortunately, instead of a focus on government transparency and individual privacy, many advocates of donor disclosure are actually attempting to pass laws that would require the disclosure of personal information—like names and home addresses of Americans—in order to intimidate these donors from contributing to the causes they care about most,” the group states on its website.
“The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and association, yet many donor disclosure bills are designed to intimidate people from associating with organizations and ideas that the government may not like.”
Even so, Sutherland believes voters shouldn’t have to scrape through what reporting does exist to get a sense for where foreign dollars are going. She explained that getting that documentation is especially difficult because of varying legal standards for international contributions.
“That means that we are beholden to the laws of other countries that may not necessarily have to report money out here in the United States; a list of groups that are receiving money, whereas foreign charities don’t necessarily have to publish the same information,” Sutherland said.
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Caitlin, Sutherland executive director for Americans for public trust(Americans for Public Trust)
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“There is no central European registry for foreign charities, so we’ve really put together a piecemeal collection of information relying on the foreign charities’ annual reports as well as their grant databases. We think that it should be simple,” she added.
Aubrie Spady and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.