Is the Anti-Vaccine Movement a Grassroot Cause?
We have learned a lot about the millions of dollars that non-profit anti-vaccine organizations bring in and pay their charismatic leaders. But can you guess where that money comes from?
Is it from grassroot efforts?
Anti-vaccine influencers are certainly making some money selling supplements, books, subscriptions, and tickets to attend seminars, etc., but you should know that most of their money comes from rich donors.
Is the Anti-Vaccine Movement a Grassroot Cause?
Of course, the modern anti-vaccine movement would still like you to think that they are a grassroot cause.
They are not.
Investigations have found that a lot of the money to these non-profits have come from just a few very wealthy people, including:
Bernard and Lisa Selz - they have given millions to the Informed Consent Action Network
Mark Gorton - the founder of Tower Research Capital and creator of LimeWire has helped bankroll Children’s Health Defense and the MAHA movement.
Tony Lyons - an early donor to RFK Jr, he founded the MAHA Action PAC and made his money publishing anti-vaccine books
Steve Kirsch - made a lot of money during the Silicon Valley tech boom and became anti-vaccine during the COVID pandemic
Joseph Mercola - was propping up the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), giving them at least $2.9 million, until his new psychic medium told him to stop for some reason…
the Dwoskin Family Foundation - they had created the CMSRI (now shut down), which funded a lot of anti-vaccine research papers we used to see and included Claire Dwoskin who once said that “Vaccines are a holocaust of poison on our children’s brains and immune systems.”
Barry and Dolly Segal - created the Focus for Health Foundation - it was originally Focus Autism, as he claimed that vaccines were associated with autism. They have helped fund Children’s Health Defense and the NVIC. Barry Segal died in 2025.
David and Leila Centner - helped produce RFK Jr.’s medical racism documentary, run a private school in Florida and said that any of their teachers who got a COVID vaccine would be fired,
JB Handley - started Generation Rescue (shut down in 2019), giving Jenny McCarthy a platform to push her idea that vaccines are association with autism
Nicole Shanahan - she is best described as an anti-vaccine billionaire
But there’s more!
Others with too much money, or maybe it is these same people, now give to anti-vaccine organizations through donor-advised funds, including:
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Fidelity Charitable
Schwab Charitable (DAFGiving360)
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust
Donors Trust
T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving
That way they can try to hide that they are donating their money to an anti-vaccine organization and still get a nice tax deduction!
Did you know that these charitable funds were giving their money to anti-vaccine organizations?
And guess where the money trickles down to?
It trickles pours down to anti-vaccine influencers, who have turned pushing misinformation and propaganda about vaccines into a big, money making industry.
An industry that pushes ableist messaging about autism, scares parents away from vaccinating their kids, and is helping create the largest outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases that many of us have seen in our lifetimes.
More on Funding for Anti-Vaccine Groups
Texas-based anti-vaccine group received federal bailout funds in May as pandemic raged
Big Money Flows To US Charities Fueling Vaccine Misinformation
Meet the Wall Street executive funding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group
The Upside-Down Doctor ← Joe Mercola
United Facts of America: Looking at the profit motive driving anti-vaccine misinformation
Children’s Health Defense sure can count the money, but they can’t count vaccines? Make it make sense…
https://thescamdoctor.substack.com/p/no-child-has-ever-received-72-vaccines?r=6hgshq
Yes. The funding is from people who have been personally injured by vaccines or had their friends personally injured.
And it’s also from people who care about autistic kids and kids who have chronic disease
In Nicole‘s case, it’s because her child is seriously Vaccine injured and she does not want this to happen to any other parent. Can you please add that to your article or do you not care about the truth?
Thank you for exposing this.