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Tim Francis-Wright of Bear-Left sent this information in:

Guidestar.org has the CNP tax returns (pdf files: about 1000K each), at:

(2001)
(1999)
(1998)


Their 2000 return used to be available at this link
but it isn't there any longer--probably because the Guidestar copy left on the list of substantial contributors (the only part of the Form 990 not subject to public inspection).


CNP seems to move around an awful lot, but I'm not sure whose offices they are linked to.


Among the contributors in 2000 were former Ambassador Holland Coors; Steve Forbes; Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation, and Donald Hodel, Reagan's second Interior Secretary and former head of the Christian Coalition. They remembered to leave out the contributors in 1998 and 1999.


Their 2000 and 2001 return list an affiliate called CNP Action, Inc., a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. Typically, 501(c)(4) organizations can legally lobby and try to influence governmental affairs--but they don't provide a tax exemption for donations. 501(c)(3) organizations are limited in their legal lobbying capacity, but they do provide tax deductions for contributions: according to a statement on its tax return, CNP gives CNP Action one-third of new member contributions. This is, to say the least, abnormal behavior for a 501(c)(3) group.



Here's their board of directors:
As of 2000-
MORTON C BLACKWELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
STEVE BALDWIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DR. DAL SHEALY
T. KENNETH CRIBB, JR.
DR. EDWIN J. FEULNER, JR.
DONALD PAUL HODEL
JAMES C. MILLER III
MR. PAUL M. WEYRICH
MR. STUART W. EPPERSON
MRS. MARY REILLY HUNT
MR. HOWARD PHILLIPS
MR. JEROME LEDZINSKI
MR. GROVER NORQUIST
MR. E. PEB JACKSON
MR. JOHN SCRIBANTE
MRS. BEVERLY DANIELSON
MRS. ANN DREXEL


As of 2001-
STEVE BALDWIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BECKY NORTON DUNLOP
DR. DAL SHEALY
T. KENNETH CRIBB, JR.
DONALD PAUL HODEL
JAMES C. MILLER III
MR. PAUL M. WEYRICH
MR. STUART W. EPPERSON
MRS. MARY REILLY HUNT
MR. HOWARD PHILLIPS
MR. JEROME LEDZINSKI
MR. GROVER NORQUIST
MR. E. PEB JACKSON
MR. JOHN SCRIBANTE
MRS. BEVERLY DANIELSON
MRS. ANN DREXEL


Howard Phillips, of course, is the perennial Christian Reconstructionist wingnut presidential candidate
of the Reconstructionist wingnut Constitution Party.