Radical Activists Are Hijacking Homelessness Charities To Fund Anti-Cop, Anti-Capitalist Campaigns: REPORT

Radical left-wing activists have seized control of nonprofits meant to combat homelessness and are using them to advance extremist political causes, according to a new investigation.

The report — which sources said was recently presented to President Donald Trump — argues that groups posing as advocates for the homeless are exploiting public and philanthropic grants, as well as tax-exempt status, to bankroll agendas that include anti-police and anti-capitalist campaigns. The investigation, titled “Infiltrated: The Ideological Capture of Homelessness Advocacy,” was published by the Capital Research Center in partnership with the Discovery Institute and draws on financial filings, legal records and original reporting. (RELATED: Rent Prices Are Ballooning In Major US City Following Pervasive Fraud By Bums With Low Credit Scores)

“I have spent the better part of my career exposing how ideological movements capture institutions. Whether in universities, corporations or government bureaucracies, the pattern is the same,” wrote subject matter expert Christopher Rufo in the report’s foreward. “Activists quietly introduce radical premises, redefine language and exploit moral sentiment to consolidate power.”

TOPSHOT – A homeless man sits on a luggage bag along a downtown Los Angeles street lined with tents housing the homeless on November 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), a 501(c)(3) that has received support from Tides-affiliated “dark money” networks, has led coordinated anti-sweep campaigns, tied anti-capitalist rhetoric to housing policy, branded U.S. governance as “neoliberal fascism,” and glorified violence against law enforcement, according to the report.

Also cited is the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice — another nonprofit sponsored by the Tides Center — which spearheads movements such as the Poor People’s Campaign. That campaign seeks to “challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality of religious nationalism,” and has links to the anti-Trump “No Kings” rallies Saturday, CRC reported.

Another group highlighted in the report, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, describes its mission as an effort to “disrupt the systems that disadvantage low-income people.” The organization works with other left-wing activists through the Alliance for Housing Justice, a coalition the report says advances ideological goals under the banner of social reform.

“Our researchers uncovered hundreds of charities in the homeless industrial complex that function less like direct service providers and more like political actors advancing radical causes,” Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, said in a statement to the Daily Caller. “Instead of helping those in desperate need, these organizations are using taxpayer dollars to lead protests, launch pressure campaigns and file frivolous lawsuits. To make progress in the fight against homelessness, we must push back against the extremists hijacking homelessness in America.”

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 28: A person walks near an encampment of unhoused people in the Skid Row community on June 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The report warns that these ideological campaigns worsen the underlying causes of homelessness, including addiction and mental illness.

“This report demonstrates in stunning detail how fringe groups are co-opting the homelessness issue to amplify radical ideologies,” Bruce Chapman, founder and chairman of the Discovery Institute, told the Caller. “Without meaningful reform, these activists and allies will continue to redirect billions in well-intentioned donor funding toward ideological warfare, while hundreds of thousands of Americans are left on the street and in emergency rooms and jails.”

Trump has made targeting such left-wing networks — including groups linked to Antifa — a priority, directing federal agencies to cut off their funding and scrutinize their nonprofit activities.