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== History ==
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Donors Trust was established in 1999 by a group of donors and nonprofit executives with the common goal of “promoting our free society as understood in America’s founding documents.”<ref name=cpi>{{cite news|last1=Abowd|first1=Paul|title=Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states|url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states|accessdate=February 7, 2015|publisher=[[Center for Public Integrity]] |date=February 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name=national>{{cite news|last1=Zeiser|first1=Bill|title=Dark Money|url=http://m.nationalreview.com/article/388705/dark-money-bill-zeiser?splash=|accessdate=February 7, 2015|publisher=National Review|date=September 4, 2014}}</ref> According to Donors Trust, the organization was founded "to ensure the intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."<ref name=mission>{{cite web|title=Mission & Principles|url=http://www.donorstrust.org/AboutUs/MissionPrinciples.aspx|publisher=Donors Trust|accessdate=February 7, 2015}}</ref> It relies on donors from charitable foundations and independent individuals.<ref name=Guardian021513>{{cite news|title=Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/15/media-campaign-windfarms-conservatives|accessdate=February 16, 2013 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=February 15, 2013 |authorlink=Suzanne Goldenberg |first=Suzanne |last=Goldenberg}}</ref> The organization assures donors that their donated funds will never be used to support [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] causes.<ref name=secret/><ref name=mission/> Donors Trust offers anonymity to individual donors, with respect to their donations to Donors Trust, as well as with respect to an individual donor's ultimate grantee.<ref name = "businessinsider1">{{cite news |title=Inside The Secretive Dark-Money Organization That's Keeping The Lights On For Conservative Groups|author=Walter Hickley|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/donors-trust-capital-fund-conservative-dark-money-2013-2|newspaper=[[Business Insider]]|date=February 12, 2013|accessdate=February 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name=secret/><ref>{{cite news|title=The future of donor-advised funds|url=http://www.donorstrust.org/portals/0/PDF/Roundtable_WB_Interview_2005.pdf|accessdate=February 10, 2015 |publisher=[[Philanthropy Roundtable]] |date=September 2005}}</ref><ref name=faq>{{cite web|title=FAQs |url=http://www.donorstrust.org/AboutUs/FAQs.aspx |publisher=Donors Trust |accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref> Andy Kroll of ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' described Donors Trust as "the dark money ATM of the right."<ref name=MotherJones>{{cite news |title=Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement |url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos |first=Andy |last=Kroll |date=February 5, 2013 |accessdate=February 20, 2015 |publisher=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]}}</ref>
Donors Trust was established in 1999 by a group of donors and nonprofit executives with the common goal of “promoting our free society as understood in America’s founding documents.”<ref name=cpi>{{cite news|last1=Abowd|first1=Paul|title=Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states|url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states|accessdate=February 7, 2015|publisher=[[Center for Public Integrity]] |date=February 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name=national>{{cite news|last1=Zeiser|first1=Bill|title=Dark Money|url=http://m.nationalreview.com/article/388705/dark-money-bill-zeiser?splash=|accessdate=February 7, 2015|publisher=National Review|date=September 4, 2014}}</ref> According to Donors Trust, the organization was founded "to ensure the intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."<ref name=mission>{{cite web|title=Mission & Principles|url=http://www.donorstrust.org/AboutUs/MissionPrinciples.aspx|publisher=Donors Trust|accessdate=February 7, 2015}}</ref> It relies on donors from charitable foundations and independent individuals.<ref name=Guardian021513>{{cite news|title=Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/15/media-campaign-windfarms-conservatives|accessdate=February 16, 2013 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=February 15, 2013 |authorlink=Suzanne Goldenberg |first=Suzanne |last=Goldenberg}}</ref> The organization assures donors that their donated funds will never be used to support [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] causes.<ref name=secret/><ref name=mission/> Donors Trust offers anonymity to individual donors, with respect to their donations to Donors Trust, as well as with respect to an individual donor's ultimate grantee.<ref name = "businessinsider1">{{cite news |title=Inside The Secretive Dark-Money Organization That's Keeping The Lights On For Conservative Groups|author=Walter Hickley|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/donors-trust-capital-fund-conservative-dark-money-2013-2|newspaper=[[Business Insider]]|date=February 12, 2013|accessdate=February 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name=secret/><ref>{{cite news|title=The future of donor-advised funds|url=http://www.donorstrust.org/portals/0/PDF/Roundtable_WB_Interview_2005.pdf|accessdate=February 10, 2015 |publisher=[[Philanthropy Roundtable]] |date=September 2005}}</ref><ref name=faq>{{cite web|title=FAQs |url=http://www.donorstrust.org/AboutUs/FAQs.aspx |publisher=Donors Trust |accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref> Andy Kroll of the [[Progressivism|progressive]] ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' criticized Donors Trust for its views on "labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government."<ref name=MotherJones>{{cite news |title=Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement |url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos |first=Andy |last=Kroll |date=February 5, 2013 |accessdate=February 20, 2015 |publisher=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]}}</ref>


== Recipients ==
== Recipients ==

Revision as of 05:16, 26 February 2015

Donors Trust
Formation1999
TypeNonprofit 501(c)(3)[1]
52-2166327
Location
Coordinates38°48′20″N 77°03′37″W / 38.8056°N 77.0603°W / 38.8056; -77.0603
ServicesDonor advised fund
President
Whitney Ball
Kimberly Dennis, James Piereson, Thomas Beach, William J. Hume, Jeffrey Zysik[2]
AffiliationsDonors Capital Fund
Revenue (2012)
$58,728,084[1]
Expenses (2012)$43,106,986[1]
Websitewww.donorstrust.org

Donors Trust (DT) is a nonprofit (501(c)(3)) donor advised fund which offers anonymity to people who wish to donate to charities but who do not wish to make their donations public. Based in Virginia, it is affiliated with Donors Capital Fund, another donor advised fund. Donors Trust focuses on donor-directed funding of conservative and libertarian organizations.[3][4]

History

Donors Trust was established in 1999 by a group of donors and nonprofit executives with the common goal of “promoting our free society as understood in America’s founding documents.”[5][6] According to Donors Trust, the organization was founded "to ensure the intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."[7] It relies on donors from charitable foundations and independent individuals.[8] The organization assures donors that their donated funds will never be used to support liberal causes.[9][7] Donors Trust offers anonymity to individual donors, with respect to their donations to Donors Trust, as well as with respect to an individual donor's ultimate grantee.[10][9][11][12] Andy Kroll of the progressive Mother Jones criticized Donors Trust for its views on "labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government."[13]

Recipients

Donors Trust has provided funds to numerous conservative and libertarian causes. In 2011, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund granted $6.3 million to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a conservative online news organization, for a campaign against wind and solar power.[8] Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund distributed nearly $120 million to more than 100 climate change denial groups between 2002 and 2010, according to The Guardian.[9] Donors Trust granted $10 million to the State Policy Network, a national network of conservative and libertarian think tanks focused on state-level policy, between 2008 and 2013. Donors Trust also issued grants to the State Policy Network’s affiliates at the state level during the same period.[14]

Board of directors

The organization's board of directors is composed of:[2]

References and notes

  1. ^ a b c "2012 IRS Form 990" (PDF). GuideStar. IRS. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Donors Trust Officers & Directors". Donors Trust. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  3. ^ Arnold, Ron (February 28, 2013). "Ron Arnold: The Left's simmering campaign against Donors Trust boils over". Washington Examiner. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  4. ^ Morse Wooster, Martin (January 7, 2014). "A conservative conspiracy around every corner?". Philanthropy Daily. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  5. ^ Abowd, Paul (February 14, 2013). "Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states". Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  6. ^ Zeiser, Bill (September 4, 2014). "Dark Money". National Review. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Mission & Principles". Donors Trust. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  8. ^ a b Goldenberg, Suzanne (February 15, 2013). "Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives". The Guardian. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  9. ^ a b c Goldenberg, Suzanne (February 14, 2013). "Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks". The Guardian. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  10. ^ Walter Hickley (February 12, 2013). "Inside The Secretive Dark-Money Organization That's Keeping The Lights On For Conservative Groups". Business Insider. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  11. ^ "The future of donor-advised funds" (PDF). Philanthropy Roundtable. September 2005. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  12. ^ "FAQs". Donors Trust. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  13. ^ Kroll, Andy (February 5, 2013). "Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement". Mother Jones. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  14. ^ Abowd, Paul (February 14, 2013). "Koch-funded charity passes money to free-market think tanks in states". NBC News. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  15. ^ Ball is formerly the Executive Director of the nonprofit Philanthropy Roundtable and Director of Development at the Cato Institute, a US libertarian think tank. Also, she is a member of the board of directors of the Donors Capital Fund and the State Policy Network.

External links

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