Stupski Foundation
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Big giving, held to account.
Break Fake Rules turns big giving into a plainspoken argument about responsibility, control, and public good. Episodes pair sector leaders with sharp co-hosts to test philanthropy’s favorite excuses against what nonprofits and communities actually need.
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Break Fake Rules is a mission-driven podcast about the habits that keep philanthropic money, power, and decision-making locked up. It is direct. The show asks why foundations are praised for asset size, why donors get to define wisdom, and why nonprofit partners are expected to prove themselves while holding communities together. Its central beat is simple: if the moment is a crisis, philanthropy should pay like it. Episodes often begin with a clear setup from Communications Claire, then move into a conversation with Glen Galaich, rotating co-hosts, and sector guests. The tone is warm but insistent. Rather than pretending neutrality, the show argues that tax-subsidized wealth comes with obligations to the public. It likes practical metaphors: report cards, sports teams using only 5% of their energy, and plans that matter more than pledges. Recent conversations question foundation perpetuity, donor control, nonprofit overhead, tax avoidance, divestment, immigration detention, and the myth that individualism equals freedom. Guests push the show beyond internal philanthropy talk into public services, democracy, social movements, play, labor, and community life. The best moments come when a familiar sector rule is made to sound suddenly strange. Why should preserving a foundation count as success if nonprofits are underfunded? Why should proximity to wealth be treated as wisdom? Why should public goods be treated as backup work for charity? The show does not move like a clean policy briefing. It is more like an argument sharpened in company, with co-host banter, book conversations, guest handoffs, and occasional podcast crossovers. That looseness gives the episodes life without making them feel aimless. Break Fake Rules is built for people who already care about nonprofits and want sharper language for what feels broken. It is also useful for funders willing to hear that generosity without power-sharing can still protect the status quo. The result is philanthropic criticism with urgency, humor, and a clear standard for what counts as a win.
Made for: For nonprofit leaders, funders, civic-minded listeners, and philanthropy watchers who want sharper arguments about money, power, and community responsibility.
What sets it apart: The show turns insider philanthropy debates into plain moral tests, judging foundations less by intention or asset size and more by whether resources actually move.
Some rules are meant to be broken—especially the fake ones! Break Fake Rules is a podcast that brings today’s news and big philanthropic issues into focus, challenging the self-imposed rules that shape the flow of money, power, and resources in America. Join Glen Galaich, CEO of the Stupski Foundation, and a rotating cast of co-hosts as they unpack the news of the day and engage in conversations with principled rulebreakers in philanthropy, nonprofits, government, media, and more. Each episode examines the fake rules holding the systems in place that don’t serve us—and which rules we must break to...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes philanthropic power concrete by asking how institutions move money, share control and support the people doing nonprofit work.
Break Fake Rules: Change Big Giving For Good turns philanthropy's internal habits into public questions about power, responsibility and institutional purpose.
Glen Galaich imagines a football team giving 5% effort; your ideas about foundation payouts may squirm.
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A Tax Day conversation that treats philanthropy as public responsibility, with Playworks illustrating the case for play and belonging.
This Tax Day episode uses Jamie Allison and Glenn Gallagher's conversation to frame taxes and philanthropy as a matter of public responsibility, with children's well-being at the center.
A brisk summit conversation about control, sustainable models, and plans over pledges in big giving.
At Forward Global's annual Global Summit, Glenn Gallich and Renee Kaplan trade a conversation that keeps circling a basic question: who gets to belong in philanthropic spaces, and what changes when those spaces are built around collective learning, community, and action instead…
A blunt case for giving as if the crisis is real.
Break Fake Rules presents Common Thread as a blunt test of what philanthropy owes when people are being detained without due process and public goods are under attack. Dr.
A strong case for funding the people who make nonprofit work possible.
This episode makes a clear case that philanthropy weakens its own impact when it treats nonprofit workers as overhead instead of the people who carry the mission.
A sharp look at philanthropy's control problem, with a late-arriving but clarifying turn toward community power.
Break Fake Rules frames philanthropy as a control problem: money can be parked, protected, and still be treated as meaningful action. Glenn Gallich and Eric Brown keep the discussion on donor control, brand, legacy, and the way capital can get trapped inside institutions, while…
Politics, odd news, and local heart.
Faith, service, and everyday generosity.
Governance, cities, and growth under the hood.
Tax Day sets the frame right away.
Glenn Gallich hosts solo from Forward Global's annual Global Summit.
This episode features a conversation with Mia Birdsong about challenging individualism and redefining freedom to build a more just, caring, and interconnected society.
This episode features an interview with Glen Galaich discussing his book 'Control, Why Big Giving Falls Short' and explores themes in philanthropy and social change communications.
This episode features a co-host takeover discussing Glenn Gallagher's new book 'Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short' with philanthropy leaders Jamie Allison, Ralph Lewin, and Carmen Rojas, exploring critiques of traditional philanthropy and social justice.
Break Fake Rules goes behind the scenes at Common Thread, a new initiative from the Marguerite Casey Foundation.
It opens with a thesis about valuing the people doing the work.
Communications Claire opens Break Fake Rules from the Stepski Foundation.
This episode features an interview with Farhad Ebrahimi discussing how donors can support grantees during rising authoritarianism, the practice of spending down foundations, and the concept of philanthropic abolitionism.
This episode features an interview with Ariana Datta and Malila Becton-Consuegra from the Stupsky Foundation, discussing their roles in breaking traditional rules of philanthropy to accelerate social change through strategic spending and risk-taking.
This episode features an interview with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, a philanthropist who discusses breaking traditional rules in philanthropy, inspired by her family's wealth from her grandfather H.L.
This episode features an interview with Robert Reich and Heather Lofthouse from Inequality Media, discussing their organization's mission to challenge barriers to social change through video and social media.