EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Jordan wants answers from liberal philanthropists about whether they "provided U.S. government funding to...terrorist-linked groups"
Rep. Jim Jordan has serious concerns that the Biden administration funded terrorist organizations abroad, and he wants groups affiliated with the spending to send him answers.
Shortly before President Donald Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) sent a flurry of letters to organizations aligned with the Rockefeller brothers demanding answers on how American taxpayer dollars might have been funneled to overturn Netanyahu’s government and fund terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
In a series of letters to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), Jordan wrote that he wants answers about “how and to what extent U.S. taxpayer money has been funneled to certain Israeli entities with the effect of attempting to undermine Israel’s democratically elected government.”
In March 2025, Jordan’s Judiciary Committee wrote to RPA asking for documents, only to receive a partial list the following month. This slow response is insufficient to Jordan, who wrote that “RPA has not raised any legitimate justification or privilege that would excuse it from complying with the Committee’s requests.”
“We write to reiterate our request for your voluntary cooperation with our oversight and to request additional information about RPA funding that ends up with groups with ties to terrorist organizations.”
While RPA had initially claimed that it did not need to produce most of the documents requested, Jordan’s Judiciary Committee wrote that it “respectfully disagrees with RPA’s unsupported argument that the requested documents are ‘not necessary to address the Committee’s concerns.’”
“RPA has failed to produce documents responsive to the second and third requests in the Committee’s March 26 letter, which sought documents relating to funds that RPA has received from or provided to Blue White Future, the Middle East Peace Dialogue Network, PEF Israel Endowment Funds, Jewish Communal Fund, or the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, as well as a detailed breakdown of how these funds were spent.” Several of those organizations were critical cogs in the movement to attempt to oust Netanyahu shortly prior to the terrorist attacks of October 7th, 2023.
In the months since Jordan’s initial inquiry, he noted to RPA, “the Committee has learned additional information about RPA’s relationship with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), an entity that reportedly provided funding to terrorist-linked organizations.”
“These organizations include Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-P) and Alliance for Global Justice, as well as groups that RBF may have indirectly funded, including the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), and the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun),” he wrote.
“This information raises concerns that funds from RBF may have included federal grants that were received by RPA,” Jordan continued, chronicling the ties that RPA and RBF have to some of the most notorious elements of left-wing dark money in America and beyond. “RPA reportedly provided $557,000 to RBF between 2021 and 2024.Between 2020 and 2025, RBF donated $2.6 million to the Tides Network, a U.S.-based organization that is home to the Tides Center and Tides Foundation.”
The Tides Foundation is part of the broader Tides Network, which “donated $120,000 to PCRF [from 2022-2023], a U.S-based group that does not report any funding or donor information, ‘reflecting a complete lack of transparency and accountability,’” the Committee noted.
In 2023, Israel produced evidence that a PCRF hospital in Gaza contained weapons and explosives, which the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed were used in the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel. The IDF also believes that hostages from that terrorist attack were taken to the PCRF hospital. PCRF, Jordan continued, also partnered with Islamic Relief Palestine (IRPAL), an organization that the U.S. State Department previously investigated due to the “anti-Semitism” of its leadership.
But the ties continue. “From 2017 to 2022, RBF donated $190,000 to DCI-P, which was designated by the Israeli Defense Ministry as a terrorist organization in 2021,” Jordan intoned. “DCI-P’s board and staff is made up of ‘numerous individuals with alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, [European Union], Canada, and Israel.’”
Even more recently, Jordan noted that as recently as 2022, “RBF donated $100,000 to Alliance for Global Justice, an ‘anti-capitalist’ U.S.- based group that was investigated by the House Committee on Ways and Means in October 2024 for its fiscal sponsorship of Samidoun.”
Samidoun in turn is an organization that is closely tied to fundraising for Palestinian terrorists.
“The U.S. Treasury Department subsequently designated the Canadian-based Samidoun as ‘a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.’” Jordan noted.
“These reports raise significant concerns that RPA may have provided U.S. government funding to RBF, which may have wound up with terrorist-linked groups.”
Jordan’s letters received immediate praise from America’s allies overseas. One senior Israeli official noted to the Reporter that “one of the most contemptuous statements that Israel’s critics make routinely is that they don’t have a problem with Israel, they just oppose the Prime Minister and his government.”
“They glide over the fact that Israel is a democracy,” the official continued. “The government was elected by the people of Israel, who continue to support Netanyahu by a wide margin. So by definition, funding an effort to overthrow the government is anti-Israel.”
A Middle East policy veteran added that “it’s important to note that the same organization that funded the effort to overthrow the [Netanyahu] government also is funding Palestinian terrorist organizations. Tides and Rockefeller were also fingered as funders of the anti-Semitic riots on U.S. campuses. It’s terrifying how these groups with massive endowments cause so much mayhem. They paid for a civil war in Israel while funding terrorists and anti-Semitic rioters in the U.S.”
While the Trump administration cut off the grants the Jordan has problems with, he wants answers from both Rockefeller-aligned groups because, as he wrote in his letter to RBF, “the allocation of federal funds to terror groups is unacceptable, betrays America’s values and allies, and threatens our national security.”
Read both letters that Rep. Jordan sent, embedded below.
