By William P. Barrett
Roger Chapin, the self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur" whose four-decade career pushing numerous, widely disparate causes has drawn controversy and Congressional scrutiny, has struck again.
His newest charity is the Make America Safe Foundation. Its stated goals, according to paperwork approved by regulators, include efforts to "educate the public and publicize on the threat of radical Islam ... devise and implement ways to win the War on Terror ... (and) wake up the country to the grave peril posed by radical Islamists."
All this would be done, filings say, from the new foundation's headquarters in Chapin's San Diego home.
Earlier this year, the foundation, which was incorporated last fall in Washington, D.C., won public charity 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This means donors can make tax-deductible contributions. Read more ...
Roger Chapin, the self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur" whose four-decade career pushing numerous, widely disparate causes has drawn controversy and Congressional scrutiny, has struck again.
His newest charity is the Make America Safe Foundation. Its stated goals, according to paperwork approved by regulators, include efforts to "educate the public and publicize on the threat of radical Islam ... devise and implement ways to win the War on Terror ... (and) wake up the country to the grave peril posed by radical Islamists."
All this would be done, filings say, from the new foundation's headquarters in Chapin's San Diego home.
Earlier this year, the foundation, which was incorporated last fall in Washington, D.C., won public charity 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This means donors can make tax-deductible contributions. Read more ...
Source: Forbes
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