According to Sourcewatch.org, contrary to its “mom and pop” image, the NFIB has been shown to lobby on issues that favor large corporate interests, not small businesses. While it refuses to name its donors, the NFIB has received $3.7 million from Karl Rove’s far-right Crossroads GPS, and in 2010 NFIB’s legal arm received $1.15 million from Donors Trust, a major donor to the Koch brothers’ extremist Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
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As Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, said, “What we know about NFIB’s funding and structure shows how it serves the agenda of global corporations over the interests of the small businesses it claims to represent.”