Where do these people get their money from, anyway? They’ve been pumping out ultra-leftist propaganda for decades now.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been getting its money from left wing sources since its founding in 1971.
Many of its initial contributors were Communist front organizations.
It has no real interest in "civil rights". It's primary agenda is -- and always has been -- anti-American activity.
They have mastered direct mail very well. In fact, some think SPLC was invented as a mere vehicle to extract money from naive liberals who fall for direct mail solicitations. I dont know, but I have read an account to that effect.
Whatshisname the founder (Dees?) makes a large amount of money and lives in on some kind of estate. I dont have a problem with living well, but I have a huge one with this group’s MO.
“Where do these people get their money from, anyway?”
Bill O’Reilly’s a member I think. Or maybe that’s Rainbow-Push. He’s a member of one such group.
There is some info here you want to see.
"Fund raising, assets & program expenses
As of October 2008, the group's net assets were $170,240,129. Chief Counsel Morris Dees was paid $273,132 and the President and CEO, Richard Cohen, was paid $290,193. Total revenue in 2007 was $44,727,257 and program expenses were $20,804,536. In other words, they raised twice as much they spent. Fund-raising and administrative expenses were $9 million, leaving $14 million to be put into the center's vast assets. [40]
According to a March of 2007 article in Harpers Magazine by Richard Silverstein, the SPLC combats mostly impotent groups like the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan; raising obscene amounts of money by hyping fears about their power and influence. Hence, they have become the nation's richest "civil rights" organization. In 1978, when their treasury held less than $10 million, Mr. Dees vowed they would stop fund-raising and live off interest when they hit $55 million. A decade later, the goal was upped to $100 million. The group's newsletter promised that this amount would allow it "to cease the costly and often unreliable task of fund raising."[41].."
I don't know if this is their main funding source, but I recall reading an editorial (on the Reason magazine websirte, IIRC) where the author siad they way overblow the activity and numbers of white supremacist groups in the South so that little old ladies in the Northeast (especially NYC) will be scared to death and write them big checks.