{"id":2837,"date":"2010-02-23T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?page_id=2837"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:24:44","slug":"nonprofit-corporations-registered-with-fara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?page_id=2837","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Corporations Registered with FARA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council on American Relations is a network of related non-profit  corporations, including 501c4 and 501c3 corporations, as well as the  for-profit corporations Greater Washington LLC of Delaware and the  Zahara Corporation.\u00a0 The fact that this network of corporations includes  non-profit corporations should not qualify as an exemption under the  FARA statute, which only allows for an exemption under <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.justice.gov');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/criminal\/fara\/links\/indx-act.html#613e\" target=\"_blank\">613(e)<\/a>: \u201cAny person engaging or agreeing to engage  only in activities in furtherance of bona fide religious, scholastic,  academic, or scientific pursuits or of the fine arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because the CAIR network of corporations are engaged in public  education on political policy issues, political advocacy and lobbying  activities, they do not qualify under any of those categories.\u00a0  Furthermore, other non-profit corporations have set a precedent by  complying with FARA registration requirements.\u00a0 In a cross-search of  both the <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.justice.gov');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/criminal\/fara\/links\/quick-search.html\" target=\"_blank\">FARA online database<\/a> of active registrants for the  years 2005-2009, and the <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www2.guidestar.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.guidestar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guidestar.org online database<\/a> of non-profit  organizations, we found that the following organizations are both FARA  registrants and non-profit corporations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business Council for International Understanding, Inc. (BCIU) (501c3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BCIU_Guidestar.pdf\">(Guidestar Nonprofit PDF 145KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BCIU-5713-Supplemental-Statement-20060531-1.pdf\">(05\/31\/06 FARA Supplemental Statement PDF 2.71MB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hong Kong Trade Development Council Inc (501c6)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HKTDC_Guidestar.pdf\">(Guidestar Nonprofit PDF 139KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HKTDC-2181-Supplemental-Statement-20080228-7.pdf\">(02\/28\/08 FARA Supplemental Statement PDF 562KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Relief Fund Inc. (DBA International Forum Institute in Jacksonville, FL) ( 501c3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IRF-Guidestar.pdf\">(Guidestar Nonprofit PDF 144KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IRF-5703-Supplemental-Statement-20070920-4.pdf\">(09\/20\/07 FARA Supplemental Statement PDF 308KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Korea-United States Exchange Council (501c3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/KORUSEC-Guidestar.pdf\">(Guidestar Nonprofit PDF 148KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/KORUSEC%205453-Supplemental-Statement-20050228-IELCOX04.pdf\">(02\/28\/05 FARA Supplemental Statement PDF 9.73MB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Korea Economic Institute of America (501c6)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/KEIA-Guidestar.pdf\">(Guidestar Nonprofit PDF 146KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/KEIA-3327-Supplemental-Statement-20060328-2.pdf\">(03\/28\/06 FARA Supplemental Statement PDF 1.03MB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>World Zionist Organization \u2013 American Section (501c3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/WZO-Guidestar.pdf\">(Guidestar Nonprofit PDF 146KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/WZO-2278-Supplemental-Statement-20090730-9.pdf\">(07\/30\/09 FARA Supplemental Statement PDF 792KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council on American Relations is a network of related non-profit corporations, including 501c4 and 501c3 corporations, as well as the for-profit corporations Greater Washington LLC of Delaware and the Zahara Corporation.\u00a0 The fact that this network of corporations includes non-profit corporations should not qualify as an exemption under the FARA statute, which only allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2837","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2837\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}