A PAC can accept larger contributions -- a maximum of $5,000 per year -- and contribute larger sums than a normal campaign committee.
Her vision has apparently helped persuade some important public and private sponsors to contribute substantial sums to the festival.
A remainder trust allows donors to contribute large sums of money, potentially save on taxes and draw income from the donation for the rest of their lives.
Wealthy private donors have been happy enough to contribute large sums in exchange for a glamorous new wing named after them.
In response to Trump's "freeloading" claims, some analysts have pointed out that both South Korea and Japan contribute huge sums to the upkeep of the US military presence in their countries.
While there might be roughly equal numbers of "really rich" Democrats and Republicans who can contribute big sums, Mr. Goldstein said, there are more merely "rich" Republicans who are able to give a candidate $1,000 or $2,000.
Whatever the objections, the new breed of honorees is vital to the health of the nonprofit groups, their directors say, adding that the recipients themselves are not always expected to contribute large sums.
It also runs Chit funds, an ancient way to save in India — groups of people contribute small sums regularly to a pot of money that's available when people need it.
Referring to the Supreme Court ruling that money is speech, and therefore corporations can contribute large sums to political campaigns, Colbert said, "Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators.
In addition to underpinning the post-Citizens United system, which allows billionaires like Adelson to buy about as much influence as they want through 501(c)(4) "charitable organizations" and Super PACs, the Court's ruling will make it easier for rich people to contribute large sums directly to the politicians and political parties they support.
