The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the nation’s largest philanthropies, is enduring the embarrassing revelation that it spent millions of dollars advancing its own agenda.
Along with other foundations and nonprofits, the Philadelphia-based organization has come under fire recently for quietly bankrolling efforts to ensure passage in 2002 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
Among those receiving money was the University of Wisconsin, which received $1 million for a study on issue advertising on TV.
Just what did Pew get for its money?