So one of the ancillary benefits.... I can't speak to the specific intention or to the reason it was set up this way. I mean, it was set up with an incredibly convoluted structure, but as it was explained to me, there is a benefit. That is, if you are an investor in a company that then provides political services, and you put money into that company that then provides services at a particular rate, then when you put money into that company, that's not a donation. That's an investment in a company that you're the owner of. In that way, it doesn't necessarily need to be reportable, because it's an investment.
If you are then putting in millions and millions and millions of dollars to generate IP, which is then worth millions and millions and millions of dollars, but you then only need to charge your clients a nominal amount, you could argue that this is a subsidy. You could argue that it's a donation in kind, or that it's a proxy donation. The problem in many cases in the United States is that companies are much more opaque than in other countries, so it's difficult to actually parse out how much money goes where.
So that was explained to me as an ancillary benefit.