Friends of Falun Gong (FoFG)

Alan Adler, “one of the first Westerners to begin practising Falun Gong,” conceived the idea for FoFG at a meeting with Mark Palmer and has served as FoFG’s executive director since its founding. According to the FoFG IRS Form 990 filings, from at least 2004 to 2015, it transferred between $700,000 to $2.9 million per year into Falun Gong organizations including The Epoch Times, New Tang Dynasty TV, Shen Yun, various Falun Gong schools and art academies, and the Dragon Springs headquarters of Falun Gong in upstate New York. The FoFG also supports pro-Falun Gong legal efforts, hosts a massive Capitol Hill rally each year in support of Falun Gong in Washington D.C, organizes political lobbying efforts, sponsors billboards and Falun Gong advertising, and issues an annual human rights award.