Expect to hear a LOT about Family Foundations that were started by some Politicians named Clinton.
DON'T expect to hear a lot about Family Foundations that are operated by Libertarian Billionaires named Koch.
The Koch 130
How the billionaire brothers have spread their web of influence across every sector of American society.
by Julia Lurie, Daniel Schulman, and Tasneem Raja, motherjones.com -- Nov. 3, 2014
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Family Foundations
The Kochs have a handful of family foundations, whose giving ranges from public policy and political advocacy to cancer research and wildlife conservation. The Charles Koch Foundation has donated millions to universities, think tanks, and public policy shops to advance his libertarian philosophy. David Koch's foundation and personal philanthropy, while supporting similar causes as his brother, has centered on medical research and the arts. The Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation (run by Elizabeth Koch, Charles' wife) donates to Kansas-based arts and education initiatives, and the Claude R. Lambe Foundation (run by Charles) contributes largely to free-market-minded think tanks and institutes. The Knowledge and Progress Fund, a private foundation run by Charles, has given almost exclusively to Donors Trust, an organization that spreads donations around to a host of right-leaning groups and preserves the anonymity of its donors.
Click a group for more details.
Charles Koch Foundation
Claude R. Lambe Foundation
David H. Koch Foundation and Personal Philanthropy
Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation: $1,557,000
Knowledge and Progress Fund
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Who is Donors Trust?
desmogblog.com
Donors Trust is a not-for-profit company that distributes millions of dollars in grants each year to groups, organisations and projects that are “dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise”.
Between 2004 and 2013, Donors Trust (DT) distributed some $80 million to conservative causes, many of which deny the science and impacts of human-caused climate change or the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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A form on the DT website asking readers to start a fund or to donate cash also includes a statement of affirmation that clearly illustrates the ideological drive behind the money. The statement reads:
I agree that it is wrong that the fortunes of successful Americans are being used to fund political and social causes that undermine the free market economy and traditional American ideals. That’s why I want to help you and DonorsTrust build a credible foundation alternative that can fund good conservative and liberty-oriented causes well into the future.
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Here are a few other things you can "agree to" when donating to the Koch's "grass roots" Foundation-funding cause ...
Support DonorsTrust
__ I’d like to give directly to DonorsTrust, to
help you begin creating a major source of funding
that can compete with the major liberal foundations.
My donation of the following amount is enclosed:
__ $100 __ $500 __ $1,000 __ Other
__ I’d be interested in establishing a convenient
charitable giving account of $10,000 through
DonorsTrust, which will help me better provide
for the ideas I care about. Please send me
more information or contact me at the information listed below.
__ I’d be interested in exploring ways DonorsTrust
can help me ensure my foundation or
charitable giving will preserve my intent in
the years ahead.
DON'T expect to hear much about these shadowy "Donor Networks" fueling Family Foundation "causes" -- run by Koch.
Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund"
The PRW Staff, prwatch.org -- October 29, 2012
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1. A billionaire named Barre Seid is the Heartland Institute's main sugar daddy. He is the "Anonymous Donor" listed in Heartland's fundraising plan who finances climate science denial operations to confuse children, the general public, and policymakers over global warming. Seid has been the biggest booster behind Heartland's attacks on climate science, donating millions of dollars to keep the Heartland Institute's anti-science work afloat.
2. The Koch brothers and other ultra-wealthy industrial ideologues are now hiding much of their donations to conservative political outlets through an obscure group of foundations specialize in secrecy.
In total over $311 million has been put through twin organizations known as Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, which share an address in Alexandria, Virginia. The people running these organizations are close to the Kochs and have numerous ties to the groups that the DONORS network funds, such as the Koch-founded Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Independent Women's Forum, and the Manhattan Institute. The Kochs have a little-known foundation that only donates to these "DONORS" groups called the Knowledge & Progress Fund, according to the report detailing this network.
Donors Capital Fund
sourcewatch.org
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What Donors Capital Funds, and How Much
DT and DCF made grants of over $148 million in 2011 and 2012, and according to a report by DeSmog Blog the two funds granted almost $311 million between 2002 and 2010.[5] The Koch brothers and other ultra-wealthy industrial ideologues appear to be cloaking an untold amount of their donations to conservative political outlets through DT and DCF. The obscure Knowledge and Progress Fund, controlled by Charles G. Koch, with Richard Fink as president, has given only to Donors since 2005, according to Mashey.[5][6]
Funding Climate Change Denial [...]
Funding State Think Tanks' ALEC Membership
In the mid-2000s, SPN began to secure funding for more of its member think tanks to join ALEC in order to help develop model legislation.[11] In 2011, some of this "secured funding" for SPN members' participation in ALEC came from DCF. According to DCF's 2011 IRS disclosure, it funded Michigan's Mackinac Center, North Carolina's John Locke Foundation, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Foundation, and six other member think tanks "for participation at American Legislative Exchange Council meeting," providing a total of $200,000 to the groups for that purpose.[12][13]
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Don't expect to hear much about Koch Foundation Donors and their "ALEC-pro-quo" arrangements, at all.
Afterall reporting on that Koch Foundation's Donor web might take a bit more work for Media stenographers, than simply "swift-boating" the character of a front-running candidate, based on hypothetical, high-pitched, over-anxious FOX-looped speculations.
... on uncertain undisclosed donations, of another certain help-the-world Family Foundation.