Controversy
On April 3, 2011, Callahan published an op-ed in the New York Times entitled "Bringing Donors out of the Shadows" about politically motivated philanthropy. The piece was critical of the practice, on "both the left and the right," of channeling funds anonymously through 501(c)3 and (4) nonprofit groups in order to advance political views. Callahan singled out the brothers David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch as an example of donors who conceal "the recipients of their largess, even as they get to write it off on their taxes." Koch Industries, however, illuminated the insincerity behind some of the claims alleged by Callahan in a follow-up letter to the editor of the New York Times".
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