Tax Filing Reveals WESPAC Channeled Millions to Pro-Palestine Groups After October 7
NGO Monitor exposes WESPAC's financial disclosures and coordinated funding network behind alleged terror-tied and pro-Palestine groups fueling campus protests and nationwide demonstrations
An IRS filing has exposed the inner financial workings of WESPAC Foundation, revealing the nonprofit organization transferred over $1 million to groups with alleged ties to terrorist organizations while bankrolling nationwide pro-Palestine protests following the October 7 Hamas attacks.
According to an NGO Monitor analysis of WESPAC’s Form 990 covering September 2023 through August 2024, the foundation’s expenses nearly doubled from $1.7 million to $3.7 million during this period. The organization received an additional $2 million in funding compared to the previous fiscal year, coinciding with a wave of campus encampments and street demonstrations that roiled Jewish communities nationwide.
The filing marks a departure from previous years, with WESPAC for the first time publicly naming the fiscally sponsored projects it supports. Previously, such funding was buried under vague budget categories like “office expenses,” making it nearly impossible to track where donor money ultimately flowed.
Million-Dollar Grant to Alleged Terror-Linked Group
The most significant revelation centers on a $1 million grant to Honor the Earth, listed in the filing with the grant purpose ‘Palestinian Youth Movement.’” PYM has alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
A 2019 French court decision cited intelligence reports claiming PYM is “affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” The group’s scholarship program honors Ghassan Kanafani, a deceased PFLP leader.
Following October 7, PYM mobilized demonstrations and helped coordinate student encampments across North America. In spring 2024, the PFLP itself issued a statement explicitly expressing support for PYM’s activities on American campuses.
Funding the March on Washington
The filing also shows WESPAC granted $62,000 to the Progress Unity Fund for the November 4, 2023 National March on Washington. The event, which drew thousands to the nation’s capital, featured what the Anti-Defamation League characterized as “explicit expressions of support for terror and antisemitism.”
An additional $83,404 went to the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) through Al-Awda, another WESPAC-sponsored group. In December 2023, PFC signed a controversial statement dismissing reports of sexual violence during the October 7 attacks as Israeli propaganda.
Legal Troubles Mount
The filing reveals $115,000 in legal expenses—a line item that did not exist in previous years. WESPAC has been named as a defendant in multiple lawsuits alleging it failed to properly oversee sponsored organizations engaged in antisemitic activities.
The foundation also spent $536,000 on “conferences, conventions, and meetings,” $96,000 on “event expenses,” and $105,000 on travel—figures that underscore extensive coordination efforts rather than spontaneous grassroots activism.
WESPAC’s dramatic financial expansion raises questions about funding sources. The report notes that “substantial financial flows underwrote demonstrations, travel, mobilization, and perhaps salaries and benefits,” contradicting claims that post-October 7 protests represented organic, volunteer-driven movements.
For the first time since 2008, Executive Director Nada Khader signed the tax filing rather than the board president, suggesting the organization transitioned from passive fiscal sponsor to active operational manager. In October 2023, Khader published a statement attributing Hamas’s attack to “root causes in oppression, injustice and apartheid.”
Dumb question perhaps but what are the laws prohibiting support for groups advocating for terrorism, if not committing it directly?