Fearful of Trump’s penchant for targeting his perceived enemies, some nonprofit leaders say large donors are pulling back

President Donald Trump has threatened to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.

Threats from senior administration officials have heightened donors’ concerns about giving to causes that might be perceived as opposing Trump and singled out for retribution.

The White House has said it will not move forward with a series of rumored executive actions targeting nonprofits.

At least 30 percent of the estimated 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. receive federal grant funding.

Trump has frozen billions in federal grants to universities, states, states and other nonprofit entities across the country.

Donors were more willing to support causes in opposition to Trump in his first term, illustrating how much landscape has shifted in large part on revenge.

The Amica Center for Immigrant Rights receives roughly 70 percent of funding through federal contracts.

Organizations with federal funding, doing work from cancer research to feeding people, are being forced to lay off up to 40 percent of staff.

In every state, 60 to 80 percent of nonprofits that receive federal funding could fail to cover their expenses if government funding remained frozen or disappeared.