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A disturbing glimpse into the nonprofit-industrial complex emerged this week after new financial disclosures revealed that a radical left-liberal activist who helped organize the storming of a Christian church in Minnesota personally collected well over a million dollars while leading a so-called ‘anti-poverty’ organization.
The organizer, Nekima Levy Armstrong, was among those arrest for organizing the anti-Christian, anti-American protests at Cities Church in St. Paul, where demonstrators interrupted a worship service to denounce federal immigration enforcement, Fox News reports.
The incident was framed by anti-ICE activists as some kind of moral stand, but to most Americans it looked like a deliberate—and anti-Christian coded—act of intimidation against an eminently wholesome Christian congregation.
Armstrong, who, revealingly, styles herself as a “scholar-activist” and civil rights attorney, claimed in a social media post that one of the church’s pastors had ties to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protest was part of a broader anti-American campaign opposing federal immigration enforcement and increased scrutiny over immigration-related fraud in Minnesota.
Behind the rhetoric, however, tax filings tell a very different story—one of personal enrichment and ideological activism underwritten by tax-advantaged charities. According to public records, Armstrong served as executive director of the Wayfinder Foundation for at least six years, from 2019 through 2024.
During that period, Armstrong enriched herself to the tune of $936,395 in salary alone, along with an additional $201,313 in health benefits and other compensation. In total, her personal ‘compensation’ exceeded $1.1 million—an extraordinary figure for the head of a nonprofit ostensibly focused on ‘alleviating poverty.’
The imbalance is even more striking when compared to the foundation’s actual charitable output. Across those same six years, Wayfinder distributed roughly $700,052 in grants, meaning far more money was funneled to personally enrich its executive than to the communities it claimed to serve.
The pattern was especially stark inl 2024. That year, the foundation awarded a mere $158,811 to the poor in grants, while Armstrong herself collected a salary of $215,726, plus another $40,548 in benefits and deferred compensation.
The year before followed the same script. In 2023, Armstrong earned $170,726 in salary and an additional $44,300 in other compensation, while the organization disbursed only $133,698 in grants.
Even in 2022, filings show Armstrong receiving roughly $208,000 in total compensation as Wayfinder handed out about $161,325 to grant recipients. The supposed mission of fighting poverty appeared secondary to maintaining a lucrative activist career.
Over the same six-year span, the Wayfinder Foundation reported more than $5.2 million in revenue. That money came not from grassroots donors scraping together spare change, but from major institutional players embedded in the progressive funding ecosystem.
Among the donors was Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, which contributed $20,000 in 2023 to support programs aimed at “educating and supporting Black communities.” Far more significant was the backing from the Walton Family Foundation, which donated approximately $2.34 million between 2018 and 2024.
Archived versions of Wayfinder’s now-defunct website shed light on how that money was intended to be used. The group openly described its goal as funding activists who would “challenge the status quo” and “disrupt business-as-usual within systems that perpetuate oppression.”
“Where others see deficiencies, lack, and want, Wayfinder sees opportunity for little revolutions that place demands on power and change systems for the better,” Armstrong wrote in a fundraising message. She added, “We get there by investing directly in the most basic unit of change in a child’s life, their mother.”
In reality, those “little revolutions” look a lot like radical-left, anti-Christian, anti-White political agitation subsidized by tax-exempt dollars. Armstrong herself has been a leading figure in boycotts against Target after the retailer scaled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Her public record also includes praise for convicted cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur. In a 2023 post, Armstrong described Shakur as “a brave, wise, powerful, and revolutionary Black woman,” a statement that alarmed many who view it rightly as glorifying political violence.
The injustice is glaring. While working families struggle with inflation, taxes, and declining public services, radical-left, anti-American activists are being lavishly compensated to attack churches, undermine law enforcement, and push an explicitly anti-Christian, anti-American ideology.
The storming of a church to protest immigration enforcement was not an aberration—it was the logical outcome of a system that rewards extremism. When nonprofits become vehicles for ideological warfare rather than genuine charity, faith communities and taxpayers alike become targets.
At a time when trust in institutions is collapsing, cases like this highlight why increasing numbers of Americans are demanding accountability—and demanding it now. Charitable status was never meant to bankroll radical left-wing activism—or to enrich those who openly wage cultural war against Christianity and the rule of law.
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