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In 2021, The Guardian ran a series of adverts claiming that the newspaper was ‘not funded by billionaires’, and that, ‘our readers’ backing gives us the independence to hold the powerful to account’. But The Guardian admited elsewhere to be backed, in fact, by a number of powerful philanthropic founda�ons, including the ECF, as well as Open Society Founda�ons, the Rockefeller Family Fund and more.

Since then, it has emerged that BMGF made grants of more than $12 million to The Guardian – equivalent to $116 per reader of the print version of the newspaper, according to the more recent published figures (The Guardian no longer shares its circula�on data) [41].

Though The Guardian has run many ar�cles denouncing the lack of transparency around the funding of right-of-centre CSOs and the influence of ‘dark money’, neither The Guardian nor many of its backers, such as the ECF, publish detail on their own funding rela�onships [42].
Grantor to ECF 2020 2019
Anonymous 36,102,621 9,376,180
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation 33,788,482 14,927,708
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 13,018,918 12,274,408
Bloomberg Philanthropies 11,304,571 11,853,323
Ikea Foundation 10,384,196 7,163,353
Oak Foundation 3,019,994 5,833,837
Open Society Foundations 2,557,329 —
Tilia Foundation 2,106,939 1,917,094
High Tide 1,856,436 2,455,880
Packard Foundation 1,387,086 1,012,047
Total 115,526,572 66,813,830
Amount (Euros)
Clean Air, Dirty Money, Filthy Poli�cs
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Figure 10. Misleading Guardian advertising campaign