America should be run by Americans. Outside interests have no place.
But a bombshell report exposed billions of dollars for foreign influence in US elections.
Foreign Cash Floods U.S. Activism: $2 Billion Scheme to Hijack American Policy
A bombshell 31-page report from Americans for Public Trust exposes how five foreign charities—rooted in Europe and the U.K.—have dumped nearly $2 billion into U.S. nonprofits since 2020, fueling climate extremism, protests, and election meddling that undermine American sovereignty.
While federal law bars direct contributions to political candidates, these overseas entities exploit loopholes to bankroll “get-out-the-vote” drives, lobbying blitzes, issue ads, and street-level chaos—all designed to radicalize U.S. discourse and erode democratic independence.
“Foreign money is coming in, and it’s trying to erode our democracy,” warned Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland. This isn’t philanthropy; it’s a calculated invasion of foreign influence, with no transparency or accountability to American voters.
The culprits—Quadrature Climate Foundation (U.K.), KR Foundation (Denmark), Oak Foundation (Switzerland), Laudes Foundation (Switzerland/Netherlands), and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (U.K.)—channel funds to domestic groups pushing agendas that clash with U.S. priorities, from fossil fuel bans to judicial indoctrination.
The Quadrature Climate Foundation alone shoveled $520 million to 41 U.S. recipients, turning American soil into a testing ground for European-style overreach.
Judicial Indoctrination: Foreign Hands Shaping U.S. Courts
Perhaps most alarming, foreign cash has infiltrated the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), a supposedly neutral outfit now exposed for its Climate Judiciary Project, which “educates” judges on climate litigation—effectively tilting courtrooms toward activist outcomes.
ELI pocketed $650,000 from the Swiss-based Oak Foundation since 2018, including a $300,000 grant for a “toolkit” on sustainable fisheries that reeks of ideological engineering. “The fact that a group that is so-called educating judges on climate is the beneficiary of foreign money is a huge problem,” Sutherland emphasized.
ELI’s spokesperson, Nick Collins, defended the grants as compliant with IRS rules and independent, but the organization’s past haul of Biden-era federal funds from the EPA and State Department in 2022 raises red flags about dual loyalties.
In August 2025, 23 state attorneys general demanded—and secured—an end to such taxpayer subsidies under EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump, a vital step to purge foreign-tainted influence from American justice.
Protests and Policy Wars: Overseas Funding Anti-Trump Agitators
The rot extends to street-level disruption: $1.6 million from the Oak Foundation flowed to Community Change, the shadowy fiscal sponsor behind Free DC’s orchestrated anti-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., which railed against his crime-crackdown policies.
“We’re seeing where foreign money coming in to protest, litigation, training is ending up,” Sutherland noted, highlighting how European donors weaponize U.S. groups to thwart domestic law enforcement and energy independence.
None of the implicated foreign charities responded to Fox News Digital’s inquiries about their motives, fueling suspicions of a stealth campaign to transplant “extremist European vision” onto American life—from gas stove bans to radicalized energy policies.
As Sutherland concluded, “It seems clear to me that this foreign money is coming into the United States because they want to implement their extremist European vision for America… they just want to have a more extreme United States that is radicalized and further left than what we want.” This report demands immediate congressional probes and tighter FARA enforcement to safeguard U.S. elections and courts from overseas puppeteers.
