Private philanthropic foundations funded the research and pilot programs that gave us penicillin, yellow school buses, 911, the white lines along highway shoulders that tipsy drivers hug at night, “Sesame Street” and any number of charitable socials efforts, from homeless shelters to after-school programs.Foundations, sad to say, also backed eugenics research, an early rationale for the Holocaust under Nazi Germany’s Third Reich. Frederick Melo. Then there’s that time back in 2010 when Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook/Meta, generously and infamously donated $100 million to transform the Newark, N.J., public schools, working hand in hand with then-Mayor Corey Booker, a Democrat,...