Nineteen Republican attorneys general (AGs) on Friday asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate dozens of U.S.-based nonprofits for potential violations of federal foreign agent laws after receiving nearly $2 billion in foreign funding over the past decade. [some emphasis, links added]
The state AGs urged Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ’s national security division head, John Eisenberg, to open the probe after the nonprofits accepted the funding from five foreign-based climate foundations, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital.
The funding may have been used to improperly influence U.S. energy policies without the nonprofits registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the attorneys general wrote.
The AGs identified more than 150 U.S.-based organizations the DOJ should investigate, saying there was “substantial evidence” that many of them were violating FARA by “engaging in coordinated funding and advocacy efforts to influence U.S. energy policy and undermine American energy independence.”
The five foreign groups named in the letter, the Oak Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, KR Foundation, and Laudes Foundation, were found by the conservative watchdog Americans for Public Trust to have funneled the money to the smaller organizations over the past decade.
The letter was led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen. Fox News Digital reached out to the five groups for comment.
The AGs alleged the foreign foundations used funding to “direct climate activism and influence energy policy in the United States, including by funding U.S. policy fights, litigation, research, protests, and lobbying to advance an extreme, foreign activist agenda.”
At least one of the foreign groups, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, “has documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” the AGs said.
They noted a separate December 2025 request from more than two dozen state AGs seeking a FARA investigation into two U.S.-based groups connected to CIFF.
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