STATEWIDE — An Indiana nonprofit is no longer on a list of community organizations that can get charitable donations from Kroger.
The reason: Kroger learned the nonprofit was actually an anti-government militia group.
Kroger said Indiana Oath Keepers was an IRS-approved nonprofit that had signed up to receive donations through Kroger’s customer-directed Community Rewards Program.
Indiana Oath Keepers said it’s a militia of former law enforcement and military personnel, but per the Southern Poverty Law Center, it’s an extremist anti-government group.
Right now, the FBI has been looking at extremist group ties, including the Oath Keepers, to some of the Capitol rioters arrested, said USA Today.
Kroger said the group was one of the thousands of nonprofits people in Indiana could have selected for the store to support. Kroger didn’t say how much money had been given to them but said it wasn’t very much.
