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JOSH ISRAEL and JOSHUA EATON at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/project-veritas-funding-2e4ef0319195/
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The largest sources of Project Veritas funding included:
DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund (more than $1 million)
Two donor-advised funds linked to the conservative movements most infamous petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch were the largest identifiable funding stream for Project Veritas. Both collect money from conservative political activists and distribute those funds to nonprofit groups that share their anti-government agenda. Mother Jones has called the affiliated groups the Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement, and noted close links between the two funds and the Koch brothers. DonorsTrust, which has sent more than $900,000 to Project Veritas, says it sends funds to groups that promote the foundations of civil society: limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise. Donors Capital Fund, which kicked in at least another $170,000, claims to back only pro-liberty groups that back private initiatives rather than government programs as the solution to the most pressing issues of the day in the areas of social welfare, health, the environment, economics, governance, foreign relations, and arts and culture. Neither group immediately responded to ThinkProgress inquiries about how Project Veritas met eithers stated requirements.
Dunns Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking (at least $100,000)
Commodities trader William A. Dunn founded DUNN Capital, a data-driven asset management firm, in 1974. With his wife Rebecca, he then created a tax-exempt foundation dedicated to bankrolling the anti-government libertarian movement unlike most conservative family foundations, theirs makes clear their purpose in its name. In addition to funding Project Vertias, the foundation has backed the CATO Institute, Pacific Justice Foundation, and Reason Foundation. The foundation did not immediately respond to a ThinkProgress inquiry about its support for OKeefe.
Eric OKeefe (at least $50,000)
The Center for Media and Democracys PR Watch reported in 2015 that Eric OKeefe, a longtime anti-government activist who is not related to James OKeefe, gave Project Veritas a $50,000 donation in 2013. Though at the time he denied making the donation in a phone interview, the group somehow obtained a nonpublic Project Veritas tax document that documented the payment.
A former Libertarian National Committeeman and one-time president of Americans for Limited Terms, Eric OKeefe is currently a board member for the Wisconsin Club for Growth, Citizens for Self-Governance, and Citizens in Charge. An acolyte of conservative economist Milton Friedman, OKeefe is a private investor and author. OKeefe did not immediately respond to a ThinkProgress inquiry about its support for Project Veritas.
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applegrove
(118,677 posts)magicarpet
(14,154 posts)But a ThinkProgress review of the Trump Foundations 2015 tax filing finds that it reported making not one but two $10,000 donations to Project Veritas in tax-year 2015.
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https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trumps-foundation-gave-20000-james-okeefes-project-veritas-e8fbdb48e16c/
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)I asked the other day about this.