WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tax-exempt organizations under investigation by the Ways and Means Committee must comply with the Committee’s requests for information and documentation concerning their funding sources and fiscal sponsorships by May 18, 2026, demands Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in letters to legal counsels representing the non-profits BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum. Each of these organizations are part of a network of non-profits operating in the United States with links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and are funded by Neville Roy Singham, a former U.S. technology mogul living in Shanghai with close ties to the CCP. All three entities and Singham have become a major focus of the Committee’s ongoing oversight efforts to expose and determine the extent of foreign influence in America’s tax-exempt sector.
In a statement, Chairman Smith said:
“The legal delays that these Singham-backed organizations have put forward are completely without merit. As we continue our investigation into the tax-exempt sector, there is urgency on the Committee’s part to determine whether and how non-profit funding sources and fiscal sponsorships may have helped to sow chaos and violence in the United States on behalf of foreign actors. Accordingly, we have demanded BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum provide documents relevant to our investigation by May 18th. Should these entities fail to comply, the Ways and Means Committee is prepared to use all tools at our disposal, including subpoenas, to conduct our legitimate and necessary oversight.”
The letters to BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum follow up on Chairman Smith’s September 4, 2025 letter to The People’s Forum and February 9, 2026 letters to Tricontinental and BreakThrough News and respond to these entities’ written refusal to provide the requested documentation. The letters make specific requests of each of the three non-profits to provide relevant documents and other such materials relating to any coordination or financial links between them and Singham and/or other foreign entities or governments – including:
- All documents and communications sufficient to identify any organization that has provided fiduciary oversight, financial management, or other administrative services and that has received or transmitted funds connected to foreign nationals or foreign entities.
- All contracts between the organizations and fiscally-sponsored projects that involve foreign nationals or foreign entities.
- All documents and communications between employees of the organizations and Neville Roy Singham, referring or relating to the finances, governance, or organizational structure of that organization.
- All documents and communications between employees and foreign principals referring or relating to the finances, governance, or organizational structure of the entities, including communications with:
- A government of a foreign country or a foreign political party.
- A partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of persons organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.
- A list of foreign nationals and foreign organizations that have donated, either directly or indirectly through other foreign nationals, foreign entities, shell companies, or donor-advised funds, more than $5,000 to the organization.
- A list of all grant recipients of the organization located outside of the United States.
In his letters to the legal counsels, Chairman Smith underscores the Committee’s well-established oversight and legislative powers – particularly given specific reporting showing ties between these organizations and foreign sources of funding, including The People’s Forum’s ties to Singham:
“Here, the Committee’s concerns are rooted in the financing of The People’s Forum and its relationship to Neville Roy Singham, a former United States technology executive now residing in Shanghai with documented CCP affiliations. The People’s Forum has publicly acknowledged receiving funding from Mr. Singham, and public reporting indicates that over $20 million flowed to the organization from Mr. Singham and his wife between 2017 and 2022 – channeled through shell companies and donor-advised funds that, by design, obscure the true source of contributions.”
Read the letters to BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum here.