Two House committee chairmen asked the Treasury Department and the IRS on Wednesday to investigate a web of tax-exempt organizations they say are financed by Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai.
Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, and Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, sent the request to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and IRS CEO Frank Bisignano.
Tax-exempt groups, they stated, cannot promote private or political foreign-aligned interests under U.S. law. Many of the organizations in question are funded primarily by Singham, whom the committees described as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked millionaire who has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into so-called advocacy groups in the United States.
Those groups, the letter said, spread CCP propaganda and manufacture division around contentious issues, including disinformation campaigns in debates over artificial intelligence.
“This network of CCP-linked non-profits exploits the laws of our country to promote division and anger in the public debates being held by American citizens,” Moolenaar said. “No one is above the law; if Singham’s organizations have violated the obligations of their tax-exempt status, then that privilege should be revoked immediately, and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by the Department of Justice.”
Smith said the network is not an organic grassroots movement.
“It’s a machine with Shanghai Singham at the helm,” he said. “This operation is a key piece of Beijing’s playbook to undermine America’s artificial intelligence leadership by taking advantage of the U.S. tax code.”
He added that this network of tax-exempt front groups is “masking foreign money behind shell companies and anonymous donor-advised funds to manipulate public discourse surrounding the technological infrastructure necessary to win the AI race.”
Representatives for Singham could not be reached for comment.
The Wednesday letter represents the latest joint effort by the two panels in the 119th Congress. Moolenaar and Smith had previously written to the Treasury and the IRS on April 8 about CCP-linked organizations that they said may be violating tax-exempt rules.
Smith also took part in a June Select Committee on China hearing that focused on China’s economic espionage against the U.S. economy. The chairmen called the disinformation campaign against American data centers another example of the CCP exploiting the tax-exempt sector and public debates to slow technological work.
The Ways and Means Committee had already placed focus on three groups. In May, the committee said it was investigating BreakThrough News, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and The People’s Forum.
According to the committee, all three sit inside a network of U.S. nonprofits with links to the CCP and funding from Singham, a former U.S. technology mogul. Smith had written to The People’s Forum in September 2025 and the other two in February. The groups did not turn over the records sought, the committee said. He wrote to them again on May 4.
Smith said more than $20 million flowed to The People’s Forum from Singham and his wife between 2017 and 2022, through shell companies and donor-advised funds. Since 2020, BreakThrough News had received more than $1 million from the Justice and Education Fund, $60,600 from the Progress Unity Fund, and $540,000 through the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, channels the committee connected to Singham.
According to Smith, Tricontinental took $700,000 in 2019 from the United Community Fund, a tax-exempt foundation connected to Singham, plus partial funding from CODEPINK, cofounded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, and more than $12.5 million from a donor-advised fund funded in part by Singham. The deadline for submitting the requested documents and materials was set for May 18.
A Feb. 10 Ways and Means Committee hearing already placed the same Marxist-aligned network under the spotlight. Witness Adam Sohn, CEO of social media threat intelligence analytics organization Narravance, told the panel that a July 2024 protest in Washington that included a burned U.S. flag was not organic speech.
“This is not protected speech,” he said.
He called it “engineered subversion” and “a repeatable system for paralyzing American infrastructure on demand, financed through U.S. tax law and aligned with a hostile foreign power.”
Smith later made data-center fights a focus. In a June hearing on Chinese influence, he said China wants to dominate artificial intelligence and is “actively seeking to exploit Americans’ legitimate concerns and sow discord in our own backyard for one purpose, and that is to seize this technological advantage for themselves.”
He said he would “follow the money and get to the bottom of the dark web of funding sources.” In late July, he subpoenaed three Singham-associated nonprofits, citing tens of millions of dollars funneled through Singham. Singham is under federal grand jury investigation over potential unlawful money funneling.
In September 2025, Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) asked Bessent to “immediately undertake a formal evaluation” of “far-left entities organized and funded by Neville Roy Singham.”
They wrote that Singham is a self-described socialist who lives in Shanghai with Evans. They said he ignored a June document request and “may have an unfulfilled FARA registration obligation.”
“It is imperative that we expeditiously halt the continued flow of funds and material support for malign activities conducted at the behest of the CCP,” they wrote.
The letter listed groups “alleged to have ties with Singham,” including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Code Pink, No Cold War, United Community Fund, Justice and Education Fund, People’s Support Foundation, People’s Forum, and Dongsheng News.
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