The former has supported sterilizing transgender people while the latter has defended the discredited practice of conversion therapy. The National Christian Foundation has a track record of donating to anti-LGBTQ groups, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council. "Chick-fil-A has not supported legislative campaigns of any kind in Uganda." The Chick-fil-A Foundation is the official philanthropic arm of Chick-fil-A, Inc.," the spokesperson said. "The WinShape Foundation is a private family organization.
WinShape didn’t respond, and the company didn’t comment on the tax returns. We asked Chick-fil-A and the WinShape Foundation why they passed money back and forth over the years. RELATED: Instagram post misconstrues food companies’ support for Donald Trump The National Christian Foundation has also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to WinShape over the past decade. We found that WinShape’s contributions to the National Christian Foundation totaled $240,000 in 2009 and $247,500 in both 20. We analyzed the foundation’s returns dating back to 2009, when the National Christian Foundation was donating to Engle’s TheCall. The WinShape Foundation’s tax records paint a different picture. However, the reverse is true - the National Christian Foundation gave the Chick-fil-A Foundation hundreds of thousands of dollars in 20. Public tax records show the Chick-fil-A Foundation has not contributed money to the National Christian Foundation. The former was created by the company in 2012 and the latter was founded by the Cathy family 1984. Most of the company and its owners’ charitable giving is conducted through two nonprofit foundations: the Chick-fil-A Foundation and the WinShape Foundation. The foundation run by Chick-fil-A’s owners has donated to the National Christian Foundation in the past, but it doesn’t currently.Ĭhick-fil-A did not support Uganda’s anti-gay bill, and connecting the company to it requires several steps.
The preacher mentioned in the post did travel to Uganda around the time lawmakers were debating an anti-LGBTQ bill, but there’s no evidence he helped craft it.The nonprofit the Facebook post is referencing is the National Christian Foundation.Similar claims about the fried chicken chain and the Uganda bill have been shared thousands of times, so we wanted to check it out. In essence, the post is claiming that Chick-fil-A’s charitable contributions have been used to promote the death penalty for gay people in Uganda. The bill was nullified five years ago on a technicality, but lawmakers have announced plans to revive it. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post refers to a bill in Uganda, where homosexuality is already illegal, that would punish gay sex with death. The post, which is a screenshot of a tweet, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. "If you eat at Chick-fil-a, this is what your money goes to." Chick-fil-a (sic) funds National Christian Org." "National Christian Organization paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill.
"Today Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people," reads one popular post, which was published Oct. Some Facebook users are implicating Chick-fil-A in a Ugandan bill that would impose the death penalty for gay sex.