Smile.Amazon.com NRA donations

[puma guy]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

[kayt00]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

Whats the difference between NRA Foundation or any of the other NRA listings, like NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund?

[mrvmax]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

I just saw that this morning

[puma guy]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

Whats the difference between NRA Foundation or any of the other NRA listings, like NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund?

That's probably a question for Charles Cotton. Off the top of my head I'd say there are tax implication to enable the foundation can use funds to support shooting and safety programs

[bblhd672]

Whats the difference between NRA Foundation or any of the other NRA listings, like NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund?

https://www.nrafoundation.org/about-us/

https://nradefensefund.org/about-us.aspx

[RoyGBiv]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

Whats the difference between NRA Foundation or any of the other NRA listings, like NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund?

Different NRA entities are tasked with different purposes. Based on those purposes, the entity may be a 501c3 (a "charitable organization" to which donations are deductible, but the entity is not allowed to do things like support a political candidate) or a 501c4 (donations are NOT deductible, but there are many fewer restrictions on what activities are allowed).

"NRA" is a 501c4
"NRA Foundation" is a 501c3 (donations are tax-deductible), because they focus on a purpose considered "charitable" under tax law.

More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa ... anizations

[kayt00]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

Whats the difference between NRA Foundation or any of the other NRA listings, like NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund?

Different NRA entities are tasked with different purposes. Based on those purposes, the entity may be a 501c3 (a "charitable organization" to which donations are deductible, but the entity is not allowed to do things like support a political candidate) or a 501c4 (donations are NOT deductible, but there are many fewer restrictions on what activities are allowed).

"NRA" is a 501c4
"NRA Foundation" is a 501c3 (donations are tax-deductible), because they focus on a purpose considered "charitable" under tax law.

More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa ... anizations

So is there one NRA entity more beneficial to the fight than others or is that where "NRA Foundation" comes in and they can distribute funds where needed? Is that how it even works?

[RoyGBiv]

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I just got this message from Amazon regarding NRA donations from Smile.Amazon sales. Use Smile.Amazon.com instead of plain Amazon.com and make the NRA as your charity of choice and they donate a percentage of your purchase amounts the the NRA.

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Foundation, recently received a quarterly donation of $10,540.75 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

$146,804.89 to NRA Foundation

Whats the difference between NRA Foundation or any of the other NRA listings, like NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund?

Different NRA entities are tasked with different purposes. Based on those purposes, the entity may be a 501c3 (a "charitable organization" to which donations are deductible, but the entity is not allowed to do things like support a political candidate) or a 501c4 (donations are NOT deductible, but there are many fewer restrictions on what activities are allowed).

"NRA" is a 501c4
"NRA Foundation" is a 501c3 (donations are tax-deductible), because they focus on a purpose considered "charitable" under tax law.

More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa ... anizations

So is there one NRA entity more beneficial to the fight than others or is that where "NRA Foundation" comes in and they can distribute funds where needed? Is that how it even works?

Not how it works.
If your primary desire is to support the legislative and legal battles, NRA-ILA is where to point your dollars.
If you want to support education, like Eddie Eagle, shooting sports and lots of other things, I believe most of that is under the NRA Foundation umbrella.

I'm on the tablet. Apologies for the brief answer.

Much more here... https://home.nra.org
Click on the small down arrow next to "NRA Explorer", at the top left.

[Rafe]

In this morning's email:

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, recently received a quarterly donation of $6,300.47 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:
• $104,163.96 to NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund

I don't know if it pains Jeff Bezos to write those checks or not, but they add up...

[flechero]

In this morning's email:

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, recently received a quarterly donation of $6,300.47 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:
• $104,163.96 to NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund

I don't know if it pains Jeff Bezos to write those checks or not, but they add up...

Doubtful- that's merely a rounding error to bezos.... and I'm quite sure he donates 20X that to anti gun orgs.

[airborneveteran]

NRA Foundation update:

Your current charity
The NRA Foundation, Inc.
has received
$193,683.74
as of May 2020

[Charles L. Cotton]

You can also have donations to the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.

Chas.

[G.A. Heath]

You can also have donations to the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.

Chas.

Had mine set for the NRA CRDF for some time.

[airborneveteran]

I volunteer with youth organizations that receive support from NRA Foundation, plus I'm a NRA Trainer. Putting NRAF on autopilot is my best connection.