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The Donald J. Trump Foundation is a New York-based charitable foundation founded by Donald Trump, 2016 Republican nominee for President of the United States.
After it was reported in 2016 that Donald Trump had failed to distribute the $6,000,000 he claimed to have raised at an event for veterans several months earlier, the Washington Post began to investigate the foundation in detail, uncovering a substantial list of possible cases of self-dealing, tax evasion, and improper use of foundation money.[1][2][3]
On September 30, 2016, the New York State Attorney General's office formally notified Trump that the Trump Foundation was in violation of New York laws regarding charities and ordered it to immediately cease its fundraising activities.[4][5]
Contents
- 1 History and Structure
- 2 Legal and ethical controversies
- 2.1 Delay in paying charity contributions raised and pledged for veterans organizations
- 2.2 Failure to pay donations pledged for 9/11 relief and subsequently taking credit
- 2.3 Using Trump Foundation money to settle Trump Organization legal disputes
- 2.4 Controversial political donations
- 2.5 Purchasing goods and services with foundation money
- 2.6 Diverting business or personal income to the foundation
- 2.7 Directing foundation funds to charities that rented Trump Organization facilities
- 2.8 Taking personal credit for foundation gifts
- 3 Legal actions and complaints
- 4 List of grants
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
History and Structure
History
Donald Trump established the Donald J. Trump Foundation in 1988 as a private foundation.[6][7][8] Private foundations are generally used to receive donations from "only one individual, family, or corporation."[9] Its original purpose was to give away personal proceeds from the book Trump: The Art of the Deal.[10][11] It has no separate office and is operated at Trump's business office in New York.[12] The foundation has no paid staff. The board of directors consists of Trump as president, plus his three adult children and a Trump Organization employee.[13] Like many private foundations it conducts no charity programs of its own; instead it grants money to other tax-exempt organizations.[12][14]
Sources and uses of foundation money
From 1988 through 2007, the foundation received funding from a combination of Donald Trump's personal money and that of others. Donald Trump gave a total of $5.4 million to his foundation from 1988 through 2008.[15] Since 2008, Trump has made no personal gifts to the foundation and it has relied solely on outside donors, some of whom have done business with Trump or the Trump Organization.[16] The top donors to the foundation from 2004 to 2014 were Vince and Linda McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment. They jointly donated $5 million to the foundation after Trump appeared at WrestleMania in 2007 and subsequent events.[16][17]
Several philanthropy experts note that having a family foundation without any family money is unusual.[15][16] According to the foundation's recent IRS Form 990 filing, in making grants it does not impose on its directors any "restrictions or limitations on awards such as by geographical areas, charitable fields, kinds of institutions, or other factors".[18]
Legal and ethical controversies
Journalist Says Trump Foundation May Have Engaged In 'Self-Dealing', 37:18, September 28, 2016, Fresh Air with Terry Gross[19] Interview with David Fahrenthold |
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, media began reporting in detail on how the foundation was funded and how Donald Trump directed its grants. The Washington Post in particular reported several cases of possible violations of rules governing charitable foundations.[1][2][3][20] Subsequent reporting led to an increasing list of accusations against the foundation. In response, Donald Trump's vice-presidential running mate Mike Pence declared on October 4, 2016 that Trump gives "virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes."[21]
Accusations against the Trump foundation include the following:
Delay in paying charity contributions raised and pledged for veterans organizations
In April 2016, Fox News reported that, more than two months after Donald Trump said he had raised $6 million for military veterans at a pre-Iowa caucus fundraiser, "most of the organizations targeted to receive the money have gotten less than half of that amount."[22] Around that time, Trump also said he had contributed $1,000,000 of his personal funds.[23] In late May, Trump revised his figures downward, saying that $5.6 million had been raised at the event and that he had contributed his $1,000,000 share only the previous week. His donation followed public accusations that he had failed to make the donation.[23] He also provided a list of the beneficiaries of the $5.6 million.[24]
Trump may have also used the funds to advance his presidential campaign, in violation of rules barring charities from engaging in political activity.[25] Trump distributed at least some of the funds in front at "Donald Trump for President" political rallies, publicly presenting large-size donation checks, drawn on the foundation, that included his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” or a link to a campaign website.[25][26]
Failure to pay donations pledged for 9/11 relief and subsequently taking credit
An investigation by the New York City Comptroller's office in October 2016 showed that Donald Trump and/or the Donald Trump Foundation may have failed to honor at least one pledge to charities established to provide relief for victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Trump had made a pledge of $10,000 to the Twin Towers Fund on the Howard Stern Show in late September 2001.[27] The Twin Towers Fund, later administered as part of the New York City Public and Private Initiative, was created by then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani "to benefit the families of firefighters and police officers who died in the attacks.[28]
During the 2016 Republican National Convention, Giuliani announced that Trump had made unspecified "anonymous" donations after the Sept. 11th attacks, although such donations have not been identified.[27] Giuliani also said, in support of Trump's candidacy, "Every time New York City suffered a tragedy Donald Trump was there to help,.... He's not going to like my telling you this but he did it anonymously.”[27]
The Comptroller's office told the New York Daily News it had manually reviewed "approximately 1,500 pages of donor records of the Twin Towers Fund and the related entity NYC Public/Private Initiatives Inc., containing the names of more than 110,000 individuals and entities that were collected as part of the audits" through August 2012.[29] According to the News, Comptroller Scott Stringer "found that Trump and [the Trump Foundation] hadn't donated a dime in the months after 9/11"; however, because the reviewed period only covered one year after the attacks, the Comptroller's office was "unable to conclude definitively" that Trump never gave to the fund after August 2002.[27] According to its IRS Form 990 tax filings, the Trump Foundation made no donations to the Twin Towers Fund or to NYC Public/Private Initiatives, Inc. from 2002 through 2014, although Trump may have made personal donations after August 2002 that would not have shown up in these filings.[27]
In 2016, after the convention, Trump's campaign suggested that the Trump Foundation made a donation to the American Red Cross after the attacks, but, no record of this exists in the foundation's tax filings from 2001 through 2014. However, as with the Twin Towers Fund, if Trump instead had made a personal donation, it would not have shown up in the foundation's records.[27]
Using Trump Foundation money to settle Trump Organization legal disputes
Dispute with Palm Beach, Florida
In 2007, Trump used Trump Foundation funds to settle a 2006 legal dispute between the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, and Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club. The town said that the club's flagpole violated town height limit rules and levied a daily accruing fine against the club. The club reached a legal settlement with Palm Beach, and settlement documents show that Trump, in return for discharging the club's obligations, agreed to personally donate $100,000 to a charity associated with veterans and military families. Trump then made the donation using foundation money, not his own.[1]
Golf hole-in-one prize dispute
Trump's foundation paid $158,000 to the Martin B. Greenberg Foundation as a settlement of a lawsuit brought by Greenberg against the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Greenberg had alleged that he had rightfully won a $1 million prize for scoring a hole-in-one in a 2010 charity golf tournament at the club. But the club denied the award on technical grounds, arguing that the hole was shorter than the required 150 yards.[16] Martin Greenberg sued and a settlement was reached at a significantly reduced amount.
The Washington Post reported that "on the day that Trump and the other parties told the court that they had settled the case, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made its first and only donation to the Martin B. Greenberg Foundation, for $158,000."[16] In September 2016, the Post reported that the donation was directly linked to the legal settlement, likely violating IRS self-dealing rules by using charitable funds to pay Trump's personal or business obligations.[1]
To raise the money needed to make the settlement, the Trump Foundation auctioned a prize of lifetime golf membership at Trump-owned golf courses, with the winning bid bringing a $157,000 donation, likely above the value of the prize, to the foundation to offset the payment to the Greenberg Foundation.[30] The winner of the auction may have believed he was donating to Trump Foundation charitable causes.
Controversial political donations
Pam Bondi campaign
In 2013, the Trump Foundation donated $25,000 in support of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's election campaign.[31] Bondi's office was at the time reviewing fraud allegations regarding Trump University but later dropped the investigation.[32] Trump later claimed he thought he had donated the money to a non-Florida charity with a similar name and then personally reimbursed his foundation for the $25,000 when the error came to light. Charities are barred by law from making political donations.[33] The foundation paid a $2,500 fine for violating IRS rules against political contributions by charitable organizations.[31] However, in 2016 a complaint citing two possible cases of bribery was filed by Democratic members of the US House of Representatives.[34]
On October 5, 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported details of how Donald Trump had on several other occasions since at early as the 1980's made campaign donations to various US state attorneys general while they had been reviewing cases involving the Trump Organization or Donald Trump personally, although the Bondi case is the only one it cited as having involved Trump Foundation money.[35]
Billy Graham Evengelical Association, Samaritan's Purse, and Greta Van Susteren of Fox News
Trump paid $100,000 of Trump Foundation funds in 2012 to Reverend Franklin Graham's Billy Graham Evangelical Association. NBC News has called Graham "an early ally of Mr Trump."[36] "The more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, 'You know, maybe the guy's right,'" Graham had told ABC News in 2011.[37] Trump and Graham would later come together on the campaign trail, with the latter helping to shore up evangelical support at a pastors' meeting early in 2016.[37]
In October 2016 Graham revealed to the Charlotte Observer that, in 2012, he had instructed Trump to make the $100,000 donation and that the money was used to pay for full page ads urging voters to support candidates in the 2012 presidential election who supported "biblical values". The Observer has suggested the timing and tone of the ads indicate they were placed in support of Mitt Romney's campaign.[38]
Graham also heads Boone, North Carolina-based Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief agency that received $25,000 from the Trump Foundation in 2012. Graham credits then-Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren for soliciting the $25,000 donation from Trump. Van Susteren and her TV crew had accompanied Graham on Samaritan's Purse trips to Haiti and North Korea. The Charlotte Observer quoted Graham saying "[Trump] was on her show, and [Van Susteren] said, ‘I was just in Haiti and Samaritan’s Purse is doing this down there, and Donald, you need to help.’ He sent a check out.”.[38] In 2016, several media outlets alleged that Van Susteren had been producing overtly pro-Trump reports on her Fox News show On The Record.[39]
Citizens United Foundation
In 2014 the Trump Foundation gave a $100,000 gift to David Bossie's conservative group Citizens United Foundation at a time when it was engaged in a lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office was pursuing a civil lawsuit against Trump University. It was the largest single donation made by the Trump Foundation that year.[40] Schneiderman's office called the donation part of a "vendetta" by Trump, while Citizens United rejected any connection between the donation and its own lawsuit against Schneiderman.[41] The Trump Foundation's 2014 tax filing [42] falsely identified Citizens United as a public charity (501(c)(3)) when it is in fact a social welfare organization (501(c)(4)).
Other conservative organizations preceding and during his presidential campaign
Donald Trump may have strategically directed money from the Trump Foundation to support his presidential campaign.[43] In one case, the donations were used specifically to pay for newspaper ads.[44] In October 2016 RealClearPolitics reported that Trump directed significant amounts of foundation money to conservative organizations, possibly in return for political support and access. The news organization found that, from 2011 through 2014, Trump had "harnessed his eponymous foundation to send at least $286,000 to influential conservative or policy groups.... In many cases, this flow of money corresponded to prime speaking slots or endorsements that aided Trump as he sought to recast himself as a plausible Republican candidate for president." At least two of the groups are based in Republican-leaning early presidential primary states.[45] Groups include Iowa's The Family Leader, the South Carolina Palmetto Family Council, the American Conservative Union, the American Spectator Foundation and Citizens United.[37][46] Trump's granting of foundation money to these groups could have violated the law, if it was in return for his personal right to speak or gain access to networking events.[47]
- The Trump Foundation's gift of $10,000 in 2013 to The Family Leader may have led to a speaking engagement for Trump. The Family Leader is an Iowa-based organization whose stated mission is to "strengthen families, by inspiring Christ-like leadership in the home, the church, and the government."[48] Following the grant, the group's leader, Vader Plaats, invited Trump to speak at i's leadership summit.[37] These grants may also have been illegal because The Family Leader is a 501(c)(4) corporation established to "develop, advocate and support legislative agenda at the state level" and not a charity. The Trump Foundation is prohibited from granting money for non-charity purposes. However, Trump may have intended to make the donation to The Family Leader's affiliated foundation, The Family Leader Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation.[45]
- Trump was invited to speak at the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference ("CPAC") in 2013 after directing $50,000 of Trump Foundation money to the organization. Also in 2013, Trump was invited to speak to the Economic Club of Washington after the Trump Foundation made a grant there.[45]
Purchasing goods and services with foundation money
Portraits of Donald Trump
On two occasions, Trump used the Foundation's money to purchase artists' portraits of himself:
- In November 2007, Trump spent $20,000 in Trump Foundation funds to purchase a 6 feet (1.8 m)-tall portrait of himself at a benefit for a Florida charity held at his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida after his wife Melania Trump made the highest bid.[2][49] The painter's former production manager told the Washington Post that he had, at the request of Trump's wife Melania, shipped the painting to the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York, allegedly for display in the country club's boardroom or conference room.[2]
- In 2014, at another charity auction, Trump purchased a 4 feet (1.2 m)-tall painting of a 1990s version of himself, paying for it with $10,000 in Trump Foundation funds.[1] A photo of the portrait was found on a TripAdvisor review of Trump National Doral Miami and, later, a reporter for Univision went to the club, asked various staff about the painting, and eventually discovered it hanging on a wall at the golf resort's Champions Bar & Grill restaurant.[50]
Referring to the 2007 purchase, tax experts told the Post that if it was displayed at the golf club, it could violate Internal Revenue Service rules prohibiting non-profits from self-dealing (i.e., using charitable funding for noncharitable purposes).[2] In September 2016, President Barack Obama publicly criticized Trump's purchase of the painting.[2][49]
Referring to the 2014 purchase, Trump presidential campaign spokesperson Boris Epshteyn explained to MSNBC that Trump's use of the painting at Trump's Champion Bar & Grill was not only proper but beneficial to the foundation based on IRS rules that allow individuals to store items "on behalf of the foundation -- in order to help with storage costs" and that its use at the restaurant is "absolutely proper" in that Trump was "doing his foundation a favor" .[51]
Tim Tebow helmet and football jersey
In 2012, Trump bid $12,000 at a charity auction, hosted at his Mar-a-lago club, to purchase an NFL football helmet autographed by Tim Tebow and a Tim Tebow football jersey. Trump was given credit for generosity in newspaper accounts.[52] However, the purchase was made with $12,000 of foundation money, not his own. The current whereabouts of the helmet and jersey are unknown. Tax law experts say if Trump kept them, the purchase might have violated the self-dealing rule, which bans private foundations from "the furnishing of goods" to their own officers.[12]
Paying for a Trump Organization advertisement
In 2013 the Trump Foundation made a $5,000 donation to the non-profit D.C. Preservation League. According to the Washington Post, the nonprofit's support "was helpful" to the Trump Organization in obtaining the rights to convert Washington, D.C.'s historic Old Post Office Pavilion into the Trump International Hotel. The Trump Foundation's donation to that group bought a "sponsorship," which included advertising space in the programs for three big events that were attended by Washington's real estate elite. But the ads did not mention the foundation or anything related to charity, in violation of IRS self-dealing rules. Instead, the ads promoted Trump's hotels, "with glamorous photos and a phone number to call to make a reservation."[1]
Diverting business or personal income to the foundation
Trump may have deliberately directed personal income owed to him toward the foundation, in possible violation of tax rules. The Washington Post reported in September 2016 that Donald Trump had previously directed others to divert $2.3 million owed to his organization as income to his foundation as donations, possibly evading personal income taxes.[3] Income alleged to have been paid in the form of donations currently includes:
- $1.9 million from ticket broker Richard Ebbers. Richard Ebers had bought goods and services — including tickets — from "Trump or his businesses" and was allegedly instructed to make payment for them to the Trump Foundation in the form of charitable contributions instead of as income for the Trump organization.[3]
- $400,000 from Comedy Central as payment for Donald Trump's attendance at a celebrity roast in his honor.[3]
- $150,000 from People Magazine in return for exclusive photos of Trump's son, Barron Trump.[46]
- $5,000,000 from the World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon, possibly in return for Trump's appearance at a Wrestlemania event.
IRS rules prohibit individuals from diverting taxable income owed to them toward charities if they benefit directly from those charities unless the individual declares the income on his personal tax forms.[3] Since Trump had yet to release his personal income taxes at that time, the Post was unable to confirm if the income was declared for any of the donations.[3]
Directing foundation funds to charities that rented Trump Organization facilities
Trump has been accused of directing foundation money toward several charities, including the Palm Beach Police Foundation, that in turn paid the Trump Organization to host charity events at Trump-owned hotels and golf clubs.[30]
In 2010, Trump was personally honored for his support by the Palm Beach Police Foundation after the Trump Foundation donated to the charity $150,000 during the period of 2009–2010.[15] According to the police foundation's public tax records, Palm Beach Police Foundation paid the Trump Organization $276,463 in rent in 2014 for its "Police Ball and Auction"[53] which was held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago hotel.[15] The 2014 tax form also lists $44,332 in unattributed "direct expenses" paid by the police foundation for the same event as well as $36,608 in "direct expenses" for its annual "Golf Classic", which the police foundation holds annually at a Trump Organization-owned golf course.[53][54] For each of the four years prior to 2014, the police foundation's public tax records show significant "direct expenses" incurred for both the Police Ball and Auction and the golf tournament, although expense categories are not cited in the filings.[53]
Taking personal credit for foundation gifts
The Washington Post and Fox News reported that Trump has repeatedly claimed in public, beginning in 2015, to have made over "$102 million" in charitable donations "in the past five years". The Trump Organization provided journalists with a 93 page list of the donations.[16][55][56] However, journalists have not been able to confirm more than $10,000 of personal cash donations from Trump himself or the Trump Organization during that period. Many of the donations on the list were, according to tax records, from the Trump Foundation, which no longer contained any of Trump's own money.
Some documented examples include:
- Trump taking personal credit and being honored for a donation to the Palm Beach Police Foundation that was not his own (see above). He had pledged the money and then solicited the $150,000 in donations earmarked for the police foundation from an unrelated philanthropic organization, the Charles Evans Foundation, received the donation into the Trump Foundation's accounts, and then directed his foundation to pay the money to the police foundation.[15] The police then honored Trump with its annual Palm Tree Award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago hotel at its annual fundraiser.[57] The Washington Post wrote that "Trump had effectively turned the Evans Foundation's gifts into his own gifts, without adding any money of his own."[5]
- Trump receiving praise at the opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum for having directed $100,000 of Trump Foundation money to the museum.[16][58]
- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute honoring Trump variously as "Grand Benefactor" and "Grand Honorary Chair" at its annual fundraisers held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump may have also earned more money on the event fees it received from the institute than the Trump Foundation paid to the institute in grants. Trump has directed at least $300,000 of grants of the Trump Foundation money to Dana-Farber since 2010.[59]
- Trump receiving highly visible praise for his personal generosity on his prime-time television show The Apprentice on multiple occasions. Trump had frequently offered to make generous gifts to his contestants' charities, but records show that he ultimately either directed the Trump Foundation to make the grant, or instead had the show's network, NBC Universal, make the payment instead.[16]
- Trump paying the personal bills of a viewer of the TV show Extra. In 2009 he appeared on the show and promised that he would pay a struggling viewer’s domestic bills. “This is really a bad time for a lot of people,” Trump said as the contest was announced. Trump eventually paid the winner with Trump Foundation money.[16]
Legal actions and complaints
In September and October 2016 there were several legal actions and complaints filed against the Trump Foundation.
Former head of the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Exempt Organizations Division Marc Owens told the Washington Post in at the time regarding the various allegations against the foundation: "This is so bizarre, this laundry list of issues.... It’s the first time I’ve ever seen this, and I’ve been doing this for 25 years in the IRS, and 40 years total.[3] When interviewed for the Post's article, Trump spokesperson Boris Epshtein said that Trump did not knowingly violate any tax laws.[1]
New York State Attorney General
On September 13, 2016, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his office was investigating the foundation "to make sure it's complying with the laws governing charities in New York."[60][61] The office had previously filed charges—at that time awaiting trial—against the Trump Organization's Trump University. Jason Miller, a Trump campaign spokesman, responded to the announcement by labeling Schneiderman a "partisan hack".[62] Schneiderman has endorsed Hillary Clinton and was identified as a member of her "New York leadership council" in October 2015.[62][63]
On September 30, 2016, the attorney general's office issued a "Notice of Violation" to the Trump Foundation, ordering it to immediately stop all fundraising in New York. The notice said the foundation was not in compliance with New York law because it was raising funds from outside donors without being registered to do so. The Donald J. Trump Foundation was originally registered in New York under the state's Estates, Powers and Trusts Law, a designation intended for self-funded private foundations. In the early 2000's, when the foundation began to solicit donations from third parties, it failed to re-register in New York State as a "7A level charitable organization", as required for charities that solicit $25,000 or more a year in outside funds in New York. Tax filings show that, in each of the last 10 years, the foundation raised more than $25,000 from third parties, including many from New York - a level that requires an annual audited report to the Attorney General's office.[64] The attorney general's office ordered the foundation to immediately cease its fundraising activities in New York and to file its registration and all required past audits within 15 days, or risk being "deemed to be a continuing fraud on the people of the State of New York".[65] The foundation may also be required by law to return all donations.[64][65][66][67]
Letter from the House Judiciary Committee to the US Attorney General
Also on September 13, 2016, all fifteen Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting that the Justice Department launch a criminal investigation of Trump in connection with his foundation’s $25,000 donation to Pam Bondi. The letter specifically cited possible violations of two anti-bribery laws.[34]
Complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service
Also on September 13, 2016, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service citing evidence that they argued would compel the agency to seek back taxes and penalties and revoke the foundation's tax-free status.[34]
List of grants
The foundation's tax returns show that it has given to groups associated with conservative politics, as well as to healthcare and sports-related charities.[6] In 2009, for example, the foundation gave $926,750 to about 40 groups including the Arnold Palmer Medical Center Foundation ($100,000), the New York Presbyterian Hospital ($125,000), the Police Athletic League ($156,000), and the Clinton Foundation ($100,000).[68] The foundation has reported support for many other organizations, including Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, and the New York Military Academy.[16]
The foundation's annual IRS Form 990 filing would normally contain the full list of grants made by the foundation. The following lists are incomplete.
The following grants were reported to the Foundation Center during the year 2006:[69]
- United Way of New York City — $250,000
- Operation Smile — $117,000
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute — $60,000
- Police Athletic League of New York — $60,000
- Intrepid Museum Foundation — $50,000
- Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care — $25,000
- Metropolitan Museum of Art — $15,000
The following grants were reported to the Foundation Center during the year 2007:[70]
- Police Athletic League of New York — $110,000
- Fisher House Foundation of Maryland — $100,000
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital — $100,000
- Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation — $50,000
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute — $25,000
- Disabled Veterans LIFE Memorial Foundation of Florida — $25,000
- Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation of New York — $25,000
- New York City Police Foundation — $25,000
- Palm Beach Police Department of Florida — $25,000
The Palm Beach Post has listed some additional recipients, as "a few of the larger donations made by the foundation through the years":[71]
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse — $135,000
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society — $50,000
- Drumthwacket Foundation — $40,000
- Citizens United Foundation — $100,000
According to a review by the International Business Times, the Trump Foundation did not give to right-wing causes until 2010, when donations to conservative organizations were first reported.[72] Among these organizations, the Foundation gave:[72]
- Liberty Central Inc. — $10,000 in 2010
- Citizens Against Government Waste — $10,000 in 2010
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association — $50,000 in 2012
- American Conservative Union — $50,00 in 2013
- Family Leader Foundation — $20,000 in 2013 and 2014
- Citizens United Foundation — $100,000 in 2014
In 2010, the Trump Foundation made a $10,000 contribution to Jenny McCarthy's Generation Rescue, an organization that promotes anti-vaccine myths.[72]
See also
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