This is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations, Wikipedia’s page on the Council on Foreign Relations, “an independent and nonpartisan nonprofit organization…based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.,” whose “membership has included senior politicians, numerous secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, corporate directors and CEOs, and senior media figures.”
The revenue and expenses figures caught my eye: $102,605,000 in revenue, $79,973,100 in expenses. That’s interesting, given what it is that the Council for Foreign Relations is meant to be doing.
These are the type of revenue figures you’d see from a fairly large company. According to this Crunchbase article, as of the publication date, there were 9,666 organizations in the United States that earned over $100 million in revenue the previous year.
How does a “think tank” earn this kind of revenue doing the activities they do?
The source for the revenue and expenses figures is on ProPublica: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131628168/202320239349301607/full
This is the tax return for the Council for Foreign Relations for the tax year 2021:
Line 12: Total revenue: $102,605,000
Line 18: Total expenses: $79,073,100
What the Council on Foreign Relations does
Part III, Line 1: Briefly describe the organization’s mission:
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, goverment officials, business executives, journalists, educators and (continued on Schedule D)
4b: $10,797,000 in revenue from “a multiplatform media organization with a print magazine, a website, a mobile site, a podcast, apps, and social media feeds.”
(Expenses: $11,426,000) (Revenue: $10,797,000)
4c: “All other programmatic activities CFR’s website, cfr.org, is one of the organization’s primary communications channels to its various audiences.”
The verbiage goes on and on, filibuster-style. Eventually, you get this:
“Total expenses associated with other program service activities are as follows: education – $4,887; 100 meetings program – $2,785; outreach – $1,732,700; national program – $1,300,200; task force – $416,200; term member program – $414,000; global board of advisors – $28,400; total revenue associated with other program service activities are as follows: membership dues (non-contribution) – $9,563,271”
(Expenses $11,563,900) (Revenue: $9,563,271)
Part VIII Statement of Revenue
Program Service Revenue — Column A: Total Revenue
1) Membership, grants, and contributions — $28,637,329
b) Membership dues — $5,332,838
f) All other contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts not included above — $23,304,491
g) Noncash contributions — $624,793
2a) Foreign Affairs — $10,797,000
b) Individual Membership — $8,365,400
c) Corporate Membership — $1,197,871
3) Investment income (including dividends, interest, and other similar amounts) —$4,265,950
6d) Net rental income or (loss) — (i) Real: $488,200
7a) Gross amount from sales of assets other than inventory — (i) Securities: $164,835,600
b) Less: cost or other basis and sales — (i): $116,004,400
c) Net gain — $48,831,200
11a) Miscellaneous Revenue — $22,050
What is the Council of Foreign Relations actually doing to earn this $102,605,000 in revenue, given their reported activities?
(Given that there’s no evidence being presented here that isn’t circumstantial, this post and the others like this are an exercise in hypothesizing for entertainment purposes only, whether or not the accounts presented correspond to real, not-fictional events.)
Three things:
• Drug sales
• Gun sales
• Payments from entertainment business figures to stay alive past the “decade barriers”—50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 years of age
This is the operations accounting for what the world has seen as “motorcycle gangs,” the operations crew for satan’s world order.
It is not the case that the CFR earns $102M a year in revenue as a think tank.
A user on Reddit asked for more context, so I provided a summary here:
