National Philanthropic Trust
National Philanthropic Trust is a public charity dedicated to providing philanthropic expertise to donors, foundations and financial institutions, enabling them to realize their philanthropic aspirations. Founded in 1996, National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) is the largest national, independent public charity that manages donor-advised funds and one of the leading grantmaking institutions in the U.S. Since its founding, NPT has raised more than $92.2 billion in charitable funding and has made more than 1M grants exceeding $44.7 billion to nonprofits around the world. Our experienced staff of philanthropic professionals is fully prepared to help you establish and administer your donor-advised fund. NPT is led by a Board of Trustees composed of nationally known experts in philanthropy and business.www.nptrust.org
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Sep 28, 2026
Logan M. DavisGUEST
So Bradley, you have the Walton Family Foundation, the Daniels Fund, which is local.
Logan M. DavisGUEST
But then you also have all of these donor-directed funds like the National Philanthropic Trust, the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, the Denver Foundation.
Logan M. DavisGUEST
And those, like Donors Trust, are organizations where a wealthy person can put their money, say, send it here, and then the recipient only has to declare that it came from that intermediary.
Logan M. DavisGUEST
So a lot of the – we know that Waltons are pouring in because they're doing it through their own family foundation.
Logan M. DavisGUEST
We know the
Olivia Jewell-LoveHOST
Daniels Fund.
Logan M. DavisGUEST
Who is giving money through Denver Foundational National Philanthropic Trust? We don't know.
Logan M. DavisGUEST
So it's coming in from a bunch of organizations that are pouring into intermediary organizations that's then dumping it into Advance Colorado, basically.
Swim KarimHOST
Now, again, these are foundations, so a lot of people may not interact with foundations in the same way that they may do with the local nonprofit that helps kids with after-school soccer programs, right? You know what I'm saying? But these are stool organizations that have that 5013, 501C4, 501C6, whatever that status may be.
Swim KarimHOST
National Philanthropic Trust.
Swim KarimHOST
They're actually right here in the greater Philadelphia area.
Swim KarimHOST
They're in Jinkintown, Pennsylvania.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
Base-pulled National Philanthropic Trust tax filings to see exactly where that money flows.
speaker_0HOST
We're looking at grants of $78.82 million to Founders Pledge, $61.65 million to RAND, and $14.42 million to AFRAI.
speaker_1HOST
The investigation also highlighted grants to the Tarbell Center, which is an organization dedicated to training AI journalists on how to cover the industry.