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Administrative History
The Joint Legislative Committee on Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations was created via joint resolution of the legislature on March 21, 1953, because of the lack of an agency or official to regulate organizations or persons collecting private funds for charitable purposes. Chaired by Edward P. Larkin, the committee's mandate was to root out waste, abuse, and fraud in non-profit organizations to hold them accountable to their donors. It later focused investigations on communist and "un-American" infiltration of these organizations. The committee's existence was renewed annually by the legislature through 1957, after which its powers were invested in the Office of the Attorney General.
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