Black Box: Global Censorship Hub NED Reached Agreement with State Department to Conceal Government Grants from the Public

SUMMARY The National Endowment for Democracy is a grantmaking organization that receives substantially all of its $300 million annual budget from the State Department’s congressional appropriations.  In recent years, investigators and watchdog groups like FFO have faced difficulty locating NED’s grantees and projects, despite NED having a federal mandate to operate openly and share grantee…