The National Organization for Marriage is not a charity

[rm]

Chase is giving money to charity this holiday season. They have some Facebook page or other about this.

Chase has a reasonable definition of eligible charities for this project:
"Eligible charities must be 501(c)(3) organizations with an operating budget of under $10 million, and must meet the other listed requirements. A Charity that, by itself or through an affiliated entity, discriminates on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, medical condition, citizenship, ancestry or marital status is not eligible."

Despite this, the National Organization for Marriage is on the Chase charity list. Odds are if we send Chase nice and informative letters, this will get corrected quickly and efficiently.

Details here: http://keori.livejournal.com/312571.html

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ahah! Thank you! I wonder who the third party vendor is, because they should hardly be counting NOM as a charity either -- it's a PAC. Even PACs with agendas I support shouldn't be listed as charities.

[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

I think the key here is "third party vendor." Anyone who has ever worked with a vendor knows what a mess that situation can be.

[marcmagus]

The database of groups was generated by GuideStar, a third-party firm that provides research on nonprofit groups.

GuideStar and their Contact Us

It looks like GuideStar provides a service of checking whether organizations are eligible to receive designated funds under federal non-profit guidelines. Their service may be unable to make the particular distinction Chase wants. This would be a technical limitation they should fix, so from a quick look around I suspect contacting them might be appropriate.

[marcmagus]

[Quote is from the Advocate.com link upthread]