Most people in the UK and USA don't think that super-rich families in the USA should be able to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by setting up "non-profit" multi-billion dollar foundations like the Ford Foundation, which obtain funds for their "charitable grants" by investing in for-profit hedge funds and transnational corporations that still exploit workers and consumers around the globe in the 21st-century.





Yet UK newspapers like the Guardian don't seem eager to post many articles that expose how the U.S. super-rich families obtained their money historically, how "philanthropic" foundations avoid paying a fair share of taxes or how U.S. foundations have, historically, acted as political manipulation tools of the U.S. power elite, to help prevent the growth of political movements that would end the economic exploitation of workers and consumers by transnational corporations, foundations and the plutocratic super-rich. One reason might be because the Ford Foundation gave a $300,000 "charitable grant" to help subsidize the Guardian media enterprise in 2017. And the Ford Foundation is not the only U.S. power elite foundation that's now helping to bankroll the Guardian media group in 2017. As the Guardian noted in its August 28, 2017 press release:





"The Guardian today announces the public launch of theguardian.org, a new nonprofit... Set up by the Scott Trust, theguardian.org will raise funds from individuals and foundations...In its first months of operation, theguardian.org has secured more than $1m in grants which include:





"Skoll Foundation funding...; and a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation...





"The Guardian’s longest-standing philanthropic partners include:





"Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding...; Ford Foundation support...Rockefeller Foundation support...; Knight Foundation funding... for the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab





"Theguardian.org is chaired by John Paton, founder and former CEO of Digital First Media and a member of the GMG Board of Directors....It is run by Rachel White, president of theguardian.org, who is also the Guardian’s global EVP of philanthropic and strategic partnerships...."







