Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation (DDSF) is a right-wing, Maryland-based 501(c)(3) private foundation which has been tax exempt since 2007.[1]
DDSF was formed with assets from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation and the Kathryn W. Davis Foundation. Diana Davis Spencer, the executive chairman of the foundation, is the daughter of Shelby Cullom Davis and Kathryn W. Davis.[2]
Between 2014-2018, DDSF maintained between $1.29 billion and $1.49 billion in assets. In 2015, it was listed as the 73th largest foundation in the United States.[3] It has been called "the biggest pot of conservative money you've never heard of".[4]
DDSF's ideology draws from the political views of its president’s father, Shelby Cullom Davis, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, chair of the Heritage Foundation, governor of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and president of the Sons of the Revolution.[4]
Describing its "Founding Values", DDSF writes: "Our Founding Fathers enshrined freedom, limited government, and individual responsibility in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They knew that these values would guide future generations to prosperity and happiness. Today, the growth of big government endangers these principles. Society increasingly depends on fiscally unsustainable entitlement and welfare programs. To guarantee their political, social, and economic freedoms, Americans must rediscover and apply their founding values. We’re helping them do so through our support to a variety of research, advocacy, and educational organizations."[5]
Contents
News and Controversies
Financial Support for Organizations Pushing Voter Suppression
In March 2022, it was reported by the Center for Media and Democracy that the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation was funding groups promoting voter suppression policies across the country. In their analysis of the foundation IRS fillings, it was discovered they gave $3.7 million dollars to 13 voter suppression groups. [6]
Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation's special advisor, Nisi Hamilton, attended the American Legislative Exchange Council's 2020 States and Nation Policy Summit. She participated in sessions named "CARE Constituent Management Training", "Innovation Roundtable", "Workshop: AB5/ABC/Prop-22... What’s Happening, What’s Next and What you Need to Know in the States and DC?", "General Session - Morning", "Workshop: Against Critical Theory’s Onslaught: Reclaiming Education and the American Dream", "Thursday General Session - Afternoon", "Education and Workforce Development Task Force Meeting", "Workshop: Stop the Cancel Culture, Before it Stops You!", and "Homeland Security Task Force Meeting".
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ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our ExposedbyCMD.org site.
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Ties to the State Policy Network
The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation contributed over $71.8 million to the State Policy Network and its "affiliate" and "associate" members between 2014-2018.[7][8][9][10][11]
Diana Davis Spencer, the foundation's executive chairman, is on the board of visitors of SPN member Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. Spencer's daughter Abby Spencer Moffat, the foundation's chief executive officer and president, was on the board of two SPN members, the Heritage Foundation and the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, as of 2018. SPN is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 48 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. As of June 2024, SPN's membership totals 167. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told the Wall Street Journal in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2022 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $152 million.[12] Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right-wing network of funders.[13]
In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"[14]
A set of coordinated fundraising proposals obtained and released by The Guardian in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying," The Guardian notes.[15]
Grants Distributed
2022[16]
- 1789 Fund: $25,000
- Acadia Repertory Theatre: $2,000
- Acton Academy Foundation: $100,000
- After-School All-Stars: $250,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization: $45,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $1,000,000
- American Strategy Group: $200,000
- American Swiss Foundation: $450,000
- America's Future Foundation: $200,000
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools: $56,000
- Army Historical Foundation: $150,000
- Asia America Initiative: $350,000
- Bar Harbor Food Pantry: $25,000
- Becket Fund: $150,00
- Best Friends Foundation: $600,000
- Bethesda Green: $150,000
- Boost Others: $50,000
- Bullis School: $100,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $100,000
- Capital Area Food Bank: $150,000
- Capital Research Center: $400,000
- Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation: $1,030,000
- Case Western Reserve University: $400,000
- Center for a Secure Free Society: $3,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $200,000
- Certell: $160,000
- Chapel Haven: $10,000
- Charlotte Lozier Institute: $1,000,000
- Children's National Medical Center: $400,000
- College of the Atlantic: $50,000
- Collegiate Directions: $300,000
- Constituting America: $300,000
- Consumer Action Network: $475,000
- Council for the Advancement of Science Writing: $10,000
- Culture Wise Studies: $450,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $10,000
- Darrow School: $500,000
- Dartmouth College: $300,000
- DonorsTrust: $14,000,000
- Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen: $20,000
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $65,000
- Enough Is Enough: $400,000
- Forge Leadership Network: $200,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $1,000,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $75,000
- Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $300,000
- Free to Choose Network: $800,000
- Freedom Alliance: $210,000
- Friends of Acadia: $10,000
- Fund for American Studies: $300,000
- Gatestone Institute: $125,000
- George Mason University: $200,000
- Gloucester Institute: $500,000
- Heritage Foundation: $1,500,000
- Hillsdale College: $2,000,000
- Hudson Institute: $125,000
- In Series: $2,000
- Independent Women's Forum: $1,930,000
- Informing America: $1,500,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $100,000
- Institute for Justice: $200,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $500,000
- Institute for the Study of War: $50,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $230,000
- International Spy Museum: $300,000
- International Student House of Washington DC: $25,000
- Island Connections: $5,000
- Island Housing Trust: $50,000
- Jack Kemp Foundation: $75,000
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $300,000
- Job Creators Network Foundation: $1,000,000
- John Jay Institute: $75,000
- Jubilee Jobs: $50,000
- Keystone Service Systems: $100,000
- Land Conservation Assistance Network: $75,000
- Leadership Institute: $250,000
- Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary: $290,000
- Maine Seacoast Mission: $300,000
- Maplebrook School: $600,000
- Masters School: $20,050,000
- Media Research Center: $2,050,000
- Middle East Children's Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $$1,100,000
- Mount Desert Island Hospital: $$350,000
- Mount Desert Island YMCA: $25,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $500,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $75,000
- National History Day: $100,000
- National Park Trust: $260,000
- National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $200,000
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: $15,000
- Network of Enlightened Women: $150,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $40,000
- Operation Opportunity Foundation DBA the Warrior Scholar Project: $300,000
- Operation Recovery: $50,000
- Our Community Salutes - USA: $800,000
- Pacific Legal Foundation: $150,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $100,000
- Parents Defending Education: $150,000
- Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum: $100,000
- Plimoth Patuxet Museum: $400,000
- Prager University Foundation: $300,000
- Republic Book Publishers: $150,000
- Samaritan's Purse: $150,000
- Shalem Foundation: $200,000
- Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $100,000
- Sister States of Maryland: $200,000
- Smithsonian Institution: $20,000
- Society of Mayflower Descendants of New York: $5,000
- Society of the Four Arts: $25,000
- Speech First: $250,000
- Steamboat Institute: $100,000
- Suburban Hospital Foundation: $250,000
- Success Academy Charter School: $10,000
- Teneo Network: $500,000
- Texas A&M University: $7,000,000
- The Institute for Family Studies: $100,000
- The Jackson Laboratory: $150,000
- The National World War II Museum: $50,000
- Tim Tebow Foundation: $2,500,000
- Trust for the National Mall: $50,000
- US Foundation for the Commemoration of the World Wars: $250,000
- V5 Initiative: $200,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $910,000
- Washington Tennis & Education Foundation: $200,000
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $400,000
- Young Americans Against Socialism: $150,000
2021[17]
- Acton Academy Foundation: $50,000
- After-School All-Stars: $250,000
- Aid To The Church In Need: $5,000
- American Endeavor: $20,000
- American Strategy Group: $200,000
- American Studies Center: $50,000
- American Swiss Foundation: $225,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $160,000
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools: $25,000
- Asia America Initiative: $375,000
- Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $50,000
- Bar Harbor Food Pantry: $5,000
- Becket Fund: $100,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $300,000
- Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad: $60,000
- Bullis School: $100,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $100,000
- Capital Area Food Bank: $150,000
- Capital Research Center: $350,000
- Center For A Secure Free Society: $100,000
- Center For Education Reform: $250,000
- Chapel Haven Incorporated: $660,000
- Code 3 Association: $55,000
- College Of The Atlantic: $100,000
- Collegiate Directions: $300,000
- Community Resource Exchange: $5,000
- Culture Wise Studies: $250,000
- Dartmouth College: $300,000
- Donorstrust: $7,250,000
- Earth University Foundation: $125,000
- Encounter For Culture And Education: $30,000
- Episcopal Diocese Of Washington: $25,000
- Essentials In Education: $200,000
- For Love Of Children: $25,000
- Foundation For American Content And Entertainment: $500,000
- Foundation For Cultural Review: $30,000
- Foundation For Economic Education: $150,000
- Foundation For Individual Rights In Education: $200,000
- Free To Choose Network: $100,000
- Freedom Alliance: $200,000
- Fund For American Studies: $300,000
- Gatestone Institute: $100,000
- Gcsen Foundation: $300,000
- George Mason University: $650,000
- Global Good Fund: $10,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $375,000
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $300,000
- Heritage Foundation: $1,500,000
- Hire Heroes Usa: $5543,195
- Independent Women’s Forum: $500,000
- Informing America Inc: $1,500,000
- Inova Health System Foundation: $100,000
- Institute For Justice: $150,000
- Institute For Responsible Citizenship: $500,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $200,000
- International Spy Museum: $200,000
- Investigative Project On Terrorism Foundation: $225,000
- Iona Senior Services: $5,000
- Island Housing Trust: $50,000
- Jackson Laboratory: $2,000,000
- James Wilson Institute For Natural Rights And The American Founding: $100,000
- Jewish Institute For National Security Affairs: $300,000
- Keystone Service Systems: $100,000
- King Baudouin Foundation United States: $12,000
- Land Conservation Assistance Network: $75,000
- Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $300,000
- Lawyers Democracy Fund: $275,000
- Leadership Institute: $100,000
- Leukemia And Lymphoma Society: $1,000
- Lifelight Foundation: $200,000
- Lincoln Network: $100,000
- Maine Seacoast Mission: $250,000
- Maplebrook School: $100,000
- Media Research Center: $3,000,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media And Research Institute: $1,000,000
- Monpelier Foundation: $25,000
- Mount Desert Festival Of Chamber Music: $15,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $400,000
- Mt. Desert Island Hospital: $300,000
- Mysa School: $800,000
- National Association Of Scholars: $200,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $60,000
- National Forest Foundation: $5,000
- National History Day: $150,000
- National Park Trust: $50,000
- National Rehabilitation Hospital: $100,000
- National Right To Work Legal Defense And Education Foundation: $150,000
- National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $250,000
- National Trust For Historic Preservation: $10,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $100,000
- Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship: $2,000,000
- Network Of Enlightened Women: $120,000
- Nfte New Haven Corporation: $45,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $35,000
- Opera Club Of The Villages: $5,000
- Operation Opportunity Foundation Aka The Warrior Scholar Project: $250,000
- Pacific Legal Foundation: $100,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $75,000
- Parkinson Foundation Of The National Capital Area: $5,000
- Penfaulkner Foundation: $25,000
- Prager University Foundation: $250,000
- Rare Crossroads: $100,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $800,000
- Samaritan’s Purse: $100,000
- Shalem Foundation: $100,000
- Sister States Of Maryland: $150,000
- Society Of The Four Arts: $25,000
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital: $110,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $150,000
- Speech First: $100,000
- Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Foundation: $5,000
- Suburban Hospital Foundation: $200,000
- Teneo Network: $225,000
- Texas A&M University: $7,000,000
- The Salvation Army: $50,000
- United Service Organization: $250,000
- Us Foundation For The Commemoration Of The World Wars: $250,000
- Victims Of Communism Memorial Foundation: $700,000
- Washington Tennis And Education Foundation: $100,000
- Wheaton College: $10,005,000
- White House Historical Association National Council: $25,000
- Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars: $100,000
- Woodson Center: $250,000
- Yale New Haven Hospital: $50,000
2020[18]
- Acton Academy Foundation: $50,000
- After-School All-Stars: $225,000
- ALS Therapy Development Institute: $10,000
- American Civil Rights Union: $300,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $1,000,000
- American Foreign Policy Council: $75,000
- American Legislative Exchange Council: $550,000
- American Private Radio: $200,000
- American Strategy Group: $200,000
- American Swiss Foundation: $225,000
- Americans of Faith: $100,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $150,000
- Appletree Institute for Education Innovation: $100,000
- Ashbrook Center at Ashland University: $100,000
- Asia America Initiative: $225,000
- Babson College: $100,000
- Barry Goldwater Institute for Policy Research: $25,000
- Baylor University: $1,500,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $650,000
- Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad: $100,000
- Bethesda Fire Department: $135,000
- Bethesda Green: $150,000
- Bullis School: $50,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $305,000
- Capital Area Food Bank: $150,000
- Center for Education Reform: $400,000
- Center for Organizational Research and Education: $300,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $150,000
- Chapel Haven Incorporated: $500,000
- Children's Inn at NIH: $100,000
- Children's National Hospital: $100,000
- City Year: $100,000
- Club for Growth Foundation: $100,000
- Code 3 Association: $1,100,000
- College of the Atlantic: $150,000
- Collegiate Directions: $200,000
- Community Resource Exchange: $5,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $125,000
- Corporation of the Washington Latin School: $25,000
- Culture Wise Studies: $200,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $300,000
- D.C. Public Education Fund: $125,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $100,000
- Dartmouth College: $300,000
- DonorsTrust: $11,000,000
- Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen: $10,000
- Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund: $200,000
- Earth University Foundation: $100,000
- Education and Research Institute: $50,000
- Elizabeth Dole Foundation: $505,000
- Elm City Internationals Success Through Soccer: 15,000
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $25,000
- Enough is Enough Campaign: $225,000
- Ethics and Public Policy Center: $150,000
- Floc for Love of Children: $15,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $25,000
- Foundation for Economic Education: $40,000
- Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $200,000
- Free to Choose Network: $200,000
- Freedom Alliance: $175,000
- FreedomWorks Foundation: $400,000
- French American Foundation: $5,000
- Friends of Acadia: $85,000
- Friends of Choice in Urban Schools: $101,000
- Friends of Istituto Bruno Leoni: $30,000
- Fund for American Studies: $300,000
- Funds for Public Schools: $145,000
- George Mason University: $450,000
- Georgetown University Hospital: $100,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $200,000
- Gloucester Institute: $400,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $100,000
- Greater Washington Community Foundation: $5,000
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $100,000
- Heritage Foundation: $2,000,000
- Hire Heroes USA: $550,000
- Human Rights Foundation: $200,000
- Independent Women’s Forum: $500,000
- Inova Health System Foundation: $100,000
- Institute for Family Studies: $45,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $75,000
- Institute for Justice: $150,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $400,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $150,000
- International Student House: $25,000
- Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation: $150,000
- Island Readers and Writers, an Initiative for Maine Children: $25,000
- Jack Kemp Foundation: $50,000
- Jackson Laboratory: $2,500,000
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $600,000
- Job Creators Network Foundation: $500,000
- Jubilee Jobs: $35,000
- Judicial Education Project: $450,000
- Judicial Watch: $150,000
- Keystone Service Systems: $50,000
- Land Conservation Assistance Network: $50,000
- Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $200,000
- Lawyers Democracy Fund: $225,000
- Leadership Institute: $50,000
- Lifelight Foundation: $75,000
- Lincoln Network: $75,000
- Lucy Burns Institute DBA Ballotpedia: $50,000
- Maimonides Medical Center: $50,000
- Maine Seacoast Mission: $300,000
- Maplebrook School: $200,000
- Maryland Public Policy Institute: $100,000
- Masters School: $28,075,000
- Media Research Center: $1,000,000
- Mercatus Center: $60,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $1,450,000
- Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $15,000
- Mount Desert Fire and Rescue Association: $10,000
- Mount Desert Island Hospital: $300,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $200,000
- Mysa School: $800,000
- National Association of Scholars: $225,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $50,000
- National History Day: $150,000
- National Park Trust: $145,000
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $125,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $60,000
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $1,425,000
- Network of Enlightened Women: $90,000
- Newton Medical Center Foundation: $50,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $35,000
- Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs: $200,000
- Operation Opportunity Foundation AKA The Warrior Scholar Project: $200,000
- Opportunity International: $100,000
- Pacific Legal Foundation: $25,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $50,000
- PenFaulkner Foundation: $50,000
- Philanthropy Roundtable: $350,000
- Plimoth Plantation: $500,000
- Propter Strategies: $600,000
- PSSI Washington: $250,000
- Public Interest Legal Foundation: $200,000
- Reach Education: $25,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $1,800,000
- Salvation Army: $50,000
- Shalem Foundation: $75,000
- Sibley Memorial Hospital: $100,000
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History: $250,000
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital: $100,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $150,000
- St. James School: $15,000
- State Policy Network: $100,000
- Suburban Hospital Foundation: $100,000
- Summer Search: $40,000
- Susan B. Anthony List Inc Education Fund: $100,000
- Tea Party Patriots Foundation: $75,000
- Teneo Network: $250,000
- Texas A&M University: $5,500,000
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: $200,000
- Thomas More Society: $250,000
- Trust for the National Mall: $30,000
- Turning Point USA: $500,000
- United Service Organization: $100,000
- US Foundation for the Commemoration of the World Wars: $250,000
- V5 Initiative: $150,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $350,000
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy: $100,000
- Vital Voices Global Partnership: $5,000
- Washington Tennis and Education Foundation: $100,000
- Wheaton College: $4,610,000
- White House Historical Association National Council: $175,000
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $250,000
- Yale New Haven Hospital: $50,000
- Young America.org: $150,000
- Young Americans Against Socialism: $50,000
2019[19]
- Acton Academy Foundation: $50,000
- After-School All-Stars: $180,000
- American Civil Rights Union: $150,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $1,000,000
- American Foreign Policy Council: $150,000
- American Principles Project Foundation: $100,000
- American Private Radio: $100,000
- American Strategy Group: $200,000
- American Studies Center FBO American Veterans Center: $5,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $150,000
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools: $35,000
- Appletree Institute for Education Innovation: $75,000
- Ashbrook Center at Ashland University: $75,000
- Asia America Initiative: $200,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $450,000
- Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad: $20,000
- Bethesda Green: $150,000
- Bowen Mccauley Dance Co: $1,000
- Bullis School: $25,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $100,000
- Capital Research Center: $150,000
- Center for Education Reform: $1,336,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $175,000
- Centronia: $100,000
- Certell Inc: $50,000
- Chapel Haven Endowment: $40,000
- Children’s Hospital Foundation: $75,000
- CIA Officers Memorial Foundation: $5,000
- City Year: $100,000
- Code 3 Association: $735,000
- Collegiate Directions: $200,000
- Committee to Unleash Prosperity: $10,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $100,000
- Constitutional Sources Project: $15,000
- Crossroads Club: $80,000
- Culture Wise Studies: $400,000
- D.C. Public Education Fund: $125,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $100,000
- Daniel Morgan Academy: $5,400,000
- Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security: $4,600,000
- Dartmouth College: $300,000
- DC Web Fest: $5,000
- DonorsTrust: $2,000,000
- Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen: $5,000
- Earth University Foundation: $100,000
- Education and Research Institute: $50,000
- Elizabeth Dole Foundation: $250,000
- Elm City Internationals: $24,000
- Encounter for Culture and Education: $25,000
- Enough is Enough Campaign: $200,000
- Essentials in Education: $50,000
- Ethics and Public Policy Center: $150,000
- Floc for Love of Children: $20,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $240,000
- Foundation for Cultural Review: $25,000
- Foundation for Economic Education: $40,000
- Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $200,000
- Free to Choose Network: $250,000
- Freedom Alliance: $150,000
- FreedomWorks Foundation: $100,000
- Friends of Acadia: $500,000
- Friends of Choice in Urban Schools: $101,000
- Friends of Istituto Bruno Leoni: $10,000
- Fund for American Studies: $300,000
- Gatestone Institute: $30,000
- Georgetown University Hospital: $50,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $1,200,000
- Gloucester Institute: $500,000
- Government Accountability Institute: $100,000
- Greater Washington Community Foundation: $5,000
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $20,000
- Heritage Foundation: $2,500,000
- Heroes Helping Heroes: $25,000
- Human Rights Foundation: $100,000
- Independent Women’s Forum: $50,000
- Institute for Family Studies: $20,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $50,000
- Institute for Justice: $100,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $400,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $250,000
- Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation: $150,000
- Island Readers and Writers, an Initiative for Maine Children: $25,000
- Jack Kemp Foundation: $50,000
- Jackson Laboratory: $750,000
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $215,000
- Job Creators Network Foundation: $150,000
- Jubilee Jobs: $25,000
- Judicial Watch: $150,000
- Land Conservation Assistance Network: $50,000
- Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $200,000
- Lawyers Democracy Fund: $200,000
- Leadership Institute: $50,000
- Lifelight Foundation: $75,000
- Lincoln Network: $50,000
- Lucy Burns Institute DBA Ballotpedia: $50,000
- Maine Seacoast Mission: $200,000
- Maplebrook School: $50,000
- Maryland Public Policy Institute: $150,000
- Massachusetts General Hospital: $100,000
- Massart Foundation: $1,000
- Masters School: $75,000
- Media Research Center: $800,000
- Mercatus Center: $50,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $400,000
- Minding Our Business: $10,000
- Montgomery County Police Department: $70,000
- Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $15,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $300,000
- MT Desert Island Hospital: $250,000
- Mysa School: $1,400,000
- National Association of Scholars: $75,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $25,000
- National History Day: $100,000
- National Park Trust: $110,000
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $75,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $57,095
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $1,700,000
- Network of Enlightened Women: $130,000
- NFTE New Haven Corporation: $35,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $80,000
- Numbersusa Education and Research Foundation: $100,000
- Operation Opportunity Foundation AKA The Warrior Scholar Project: $200,000
- Opportunity International: $100,000
- Pacific Legal Foundation: $10,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $10,000
- Partners Healthcare Systme: $100,000
- Pen/Faulkner Foundation: $30,000
- Pentagon Memorial Fund: $625,000
- Philanthropy Roundtable: $150,000
- Prager University Foundation: $100,000
- Prague Security Studies Institute: $155,000
- Public Interest Legal Foundation: $100,000
- Reach Education: $20,000
- Real Clear Foundation: $200,000
- Rice University: $1,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $1,000,000
- Shalem Foundation: $75,000
- Sibley Memorial Hospital: $50,000
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History: $250,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $150,000
- St. James School: $15,000
- State Policy Network: $100,000
- Suburban Hospital Foundation: $75,000
- Summer Search: $40,000
- Tenacity: $25,000
- Teneo: $210,000
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: $100,000
- The Global Good Fund: $50,000
- Tides Center: $450,000
- Turning Point USA: $325,000
- United Service Organization: $75,000
- University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability: $50,000
- US Foundation for the Commemoration of the World Wars: $250,000
- US Holocaust Memorial Council: $5,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $350,000
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy: $60,000
- Washington Tennis and Education Foundation: $75,000
- White House Historical Association: $25,000
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $3,000
- Year Up Inc: $50,000
- Young Leader’s Alumni Council: $150,000
2018[7]
- Acton Academy Foundation: $50,000
- After-School All-Stars: $447,000
- American Civil Rights Union: $125,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $1,000,000
- American Foreign Policy Council: $100,000
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $5,000
- American Principles Project Foundation: $100,000
- American Strategy Group: $200,000
- Americas Promise: $5,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $150,000
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools: $34,563
- Appletree Institute for Education Innovation: $200,000
- Ashbrook Center at Ashland University: $100,000
- Asia America Initiative: $300,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $150,000
- Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad: $50,000
- Bethesda Fire Department: $50,000
- Bethesda Green: $150,000
- Bullis School: $15,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $100,000
- Capital Research Center: $50,000
- Center for Education Reform: $104,050
- Center for Security Policy: $10,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $150,000
- Centronia: $100,000
- Chapel Haven Endowment: $5,000,000
- Children’s National Health System: $75,000
- City Year: $777,500
- Code 3 Association: $475,000
- College of the Atlantic: $60,000
- Collegiate Directions: $200,000
- Community Resource Exchange: $50,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $150,000
- Constitutional Sources Project: $15,000
- D.C. Public Education Fund: $125,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $400,000
- Dartmouth College: $300,000
- District of Columbia College Access Program: $75,000
- DonorsTrust: $11,000,000
- Earth University Foundation: $100,000
- Elizabeth Dole Foundation: $290,000
- Elm City Internationals: $12,000
- Encounter Books: $5,000
- Enough is Enough Campaign: $5,000
- Essentials in Education: $75,000
- Ethics and Public Policy Center: $150,000
- Floc for Love of Children: $25,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $210,000
- Foundation for Economic Education: $50,000
- Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000
- Fractured Atlas: $6,000
- Free to Choose Network: $200,000
- Freedom Alliance: $150,000
- FreedomWorks Foundation: $40,000
- Friends of Acadia: $502,000
- Friends of Choice in Urban Schools: $100,000
- Fund for American Studies: $300,000
- Fund for Public Schools: $50,000
- Gatestone Institute: $25,000
- Glider Lehrman Institute of American History: $100,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $150,000
- Global Good Fund: $50,000
- Gloucester Institute: $450,000
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $20,000
- Hidden Wings: $1,000
- Human Rights Foundation: $100,000
- I Love that Lady: $1,000
- Independent Women’s Forum: $10,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $75,000
- Institute for Justice: $100,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $350,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $100,000
- International Committee Against Mental Illness: $100,000
- International Student House D.C.: $25,000
- Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation: $300,000
- Island Housing Trust: $25,000
- Island Readers and Writers, an Initiative for Maine Children: $25,000
- Jackson Laboratory: $750,000
- Jesup Memorial Library: $2,000
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $215,000
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: $9,777
- Jubilee Association of Maryland: $2,000
- Jubilee Jobs: $50,000
- Kansas University Endowment: $25,000
- Keen Greater D.C.: $10,000
- La Salle Academy: $5,000
- Land Conservation Assistance Network: $50,000
- Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $200,000
- Lawyers Democracy Fund: $200,000
- Leadership Greater Washington: $15,000
- Leadership Institute: $50,000
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: $5,000
- Light of Healing Hope Foundation: $2,500
- Lincoln Network: $60,000
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $5,000
- Maplebrook School: $40,000
- Maryland Public Policy Institute: $50,000
- Masters School: $3,075,000
- Media Research Center: $800,000
- Mercatus Center: $30,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $250,000
- Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $15,000
- Mount Desert Island Hospital: $3,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $250,000
- National Association of Scholars: $35,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $50,000
- National Forest Foundation: $5,000
- National Park Trust: $100,000
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $100,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $30,000
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $550,000
- Network of Enlightened Women: $50,000
- New Leaders: $100,000
- NFTE New Haven Corporation: $40,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $50,000
- Numbersusa Education and Research Foundation: $100,000
- Officers of the Courts Corp: $50,000
- Opportunity International: $100,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $25,000
- Parentjobnet: $207,500
- Pen/Faulkner Foundation: $25,000
- Pentagon Memorial Fund: $625,000
- Philanthropy Roundtable: $100,000
- Prague Security Studies Institute: $60,000
- Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $75,000
- Public Media Lab: $600,000
- Reach Education: $20,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $2,000,000
- Sheep Island Ensemble DBA Experiential Orchestra: $1,000
- Sister Cities International: $100,000
- Smithsonian Institution – Smithsonian Women’s Committee: $10,000
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History: $250,000
- Spauling Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation: $95,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $300,000
- St. James School: $15,000
- State Policy Network: $150,000
- Steamboat Institute: $10,000
- Student Free Press Association: $10,000
- Suburban Hospital: $50,000
- Summer Search: $40,000
- Tenacity: $25,000
- Teneo: $235,000
- Tides Center F/B/O Harlem Empowerment: $100,000
- Turnaround for Children: $200,000
- Turning Point USA: $25,000
- United Service Organization: $100,000
- University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability: $50,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $1,000
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy: $50,000
- Vital Voices Global Partnership: $60,000
- Warrior Scholar Project: $325,000
- Washington Tennis and Education Foundation: $100,000
- Wheaton College: $2,500,000
- White House Historical Association: $25,000
- YMCA of Metropolitan Washington: $50,000
- Young Leader’s Alumni Council: $87,500
2017[8]
- Acton Academy Foundation: $60,000
- After-School All-Stars: $260,000
- American Camp Association: $5,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $10,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $150,000
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools: $34,270
- Ashley Bryan Center: $10,000
- Becket: $15,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $400,000
- Bike to the Beach: $10,000
- Capital Speakers Club: $10,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $25,000
- Chapel Haven Incorporated: $5,040,000
- Charlotte Lozier Institute: $75,000
- City Year: $755,000
- Code 3 Association: $525,000
- Culture Wise Studies: $200,000
- Daniel Morgan Academy: $700,000
- Documentary Foundation: $25,000
- DonorsTrust: $9,000,000
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $200,000
- French American Cultural Foundation: $25,000
- Friends of Instituto Bruno Leoni: $10,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $600,000
- Gloucester Institute: $10,000
- Hire Heros USA: $1,700,000
- Hopecam: $15,000
- Jesup Memorial Library: $1,500
- Judicial Watch: $150,000
- Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society: $50,000
- Masters School: $80,000
- Media Research Center: $15,000
- Montgomery County Police Department: $68,000
- Mount Desert Island Hospital: $50,000
- Moving Picture Institute: $50,000
- Mysa School: $1,500,000
- National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $10,000
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $40,000
- New Criterion: $5,000
- One Generation Away: $5,000
- Parentjobnet: $822,393
- Pen/Faulkner Foundation: $10,000
- Personal Care Products Council Foundation: $5,000
- Plimoth Plantation: $200,000
- Rice University: $50,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $2,000,000
- Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park: $80,000
- St. James School: $15,000
- Teach for America: $5,000
- Turning Point USA: $300,000
- United States Commemoration of the World Wars: $500,000
- University System of New Hampshire: $5,000
- Young Leader’s Alumni Council: $120,000
2016[9]
- Acadia Family Center: $10,000
- After-School All-Stars: $200,000
- American Civil Rights Union: $100,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $1,010,000
- American Principles Project Foundation: $100,000
- American Private Radio: $200,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $100,000
- Appletree Institute for Education Innovation: $100,000
- Arundel Middle School: $19,700
- Ashbrook Center at Ashland University: $100,000
- Asia America Initiative: $160,000
- Atlas Society: $100,000
- Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad: $25,000
- Bethesda Fire Department: $50,000
- Bethesda Green: $100,000
- Bullis School: $2,501,500
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $100,000
- Capital Research Center: $25,000
- Capitol Hill Cluster School Parent Teacher Association: $43,000
- Center for Education Reform: $3,000,000
- Center for Inspired Teaching: $100,000
- Center for Security Policy: $400,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $125,000
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: $10,000
- Centronia: $100,000
- Chapel Haven Incorporated: $15,069,531
- Charlotte Lozier Institute: $25,000
- Children’s Hospital Foundation: $75,000
- Churchill Crew: $25,000
- City Year: $560,000
- Claremont American Strategy Group: $200,000
- College of the Atlantic: $10,000
- Collegiate Directions: $100,000
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region: $10,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $100,000
- Consource: $10,000
- Culture Wise Studies: $100,000
- D.C. Public Education Fund: $100,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $150,000
- Daniel Morgan Academy: $35,000,000
- District of Columbia College Access Program: $50,000
- Earth University Foundation: $100,000
- Elizabeth Dole Foundation: $250,000
- Elm City Internationals: $10,000
- Encounter Books: $5,000
- Enough is Enough Campaign: $150,000
- Ethics and Public Policy Center: $100,000
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $10,000,000
- Floc for Love of Children: $20,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200,000
- Foundation for Economic Education: $50,000
- Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $1,000,000
- Free Congress Foundation: $50,000
- Free to Choose Network: $200,000
- Freedom Alliance: $100,000
- FreedomWorks Foundation: $25,000
- Friends of Acadia: $500,000
- Friends of Choice in Urban Schools: $100,000
- Friends of Intelligence Practitioners: $50,000
- Fund for American Studies: $100,000
- Gatestone Institute: $25,000
- Glider Lehrman Institute of American History: $100,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $600,000
- Global Good Fund: $2,200,000
- Gloucester Institute: $300,000
- Heritage Foundation: $5,000,000
- Hire Heros USA: $700,000
- Human Rights Foundation: $50,000
- Independent Institute: $50,000
- Independent Women’s Forum: $850,000
- Institute for Family Studies: $25,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $50,000
- Institute for Justice: $10,000,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $250,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $100,000
- International Freedom Educational Foundation: $100,000
- International Student House D.C.: $25,000
- Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation: $200,000
- Island Housing Trust: $25,000
- Island Readers and Writers, an Initiative for Maine Children: $20,000
- Issue One: $25,000
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $200,000
- Jubilee Jobs: $50,000
- Keen Greater D.C.: $10,000
- Kingdom Kare: $24,970
- Kipp D.C.: $11,000,000
- Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $150,000
- Leadership Greater Washington: $10,000
- Leadership Institute: $25,000
- Leading Educators: $25,000
- Liberty’s Promise: $75,000
- Lincoln Network: $50,000
- Linden Resources: $25,000
- Literacy Lab: $10,000
- Lustgarten Foundation: $10,000
- Maplebrook School: $100,000
- Maryland Public Policy Institute: $50,000
- Masters School: $5,075,000
- Media Research Center: $502,500
- Mercatus Center: $25,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $175,000
- Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $15,000
- Mount Desert Island Hospital: $25,000
- Mysa School: $1,500,000
- National Association of Scholars: $30,000
- National Center for Policy Analysis: $50,000
- National Park Trust: $202,000
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $75,000
- Navy Seal Foundation: $3,250,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $25,000
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $16,175,000
- Network of Donors for Marriage and Families: $75,000
- Network of Enlightened Women: $25,000
- New Leaders: $1,250,000
- North Country School: $10,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $50,000
- Numbersusa Education and Research Foundation: $100,000
- Opportunity International: $100,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $20,000
- Parentjobnet: $1,636,218
- Pentagon Memorial Fund: $1,250,000
- Philadelphia University: $1,000,000
- Philanthropy Roundtable: $100,000
- Plimoth Plantation: $200,000
- Prague Security Studies Institute: $50,000
- Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $75,000
- Reach Education: $15,000
- Resources First Foundation: $50,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $250,000
- Shalem Foundation: $50,000
- Sister Cities International: $135,000
- Smithsonian Institute – National Museum of American History: $250,000
- Spauling Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation: $50,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $300,000
- St. James School: $15,000
- State Policy Network: $100,000
- Steamboat Institute: $10,000
- Summer Search: $35,000
- Teach for America: $3,000,000
- Tenacity: $20,000
- Teneo: $200,000
- Trust for the National Mall: $50,000
- Turnaround for Children: $150,000
- Turning Point USA: $100,000
- Unite the World with Africa Foundation: $18,400
- United Service Organization: $50,000
- United States Commemoration of the World Wars: $1,000,000
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000
- University Mississippi: $5,365
- University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability: $50,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $100,000
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy: $50,000
- Vital Voices Global Partnership: $50,000
- Warrior Scholar Project: $200,000
- Washington Tennis and Education Foundation: $100,000
- Westchester Children’s Association: $50,000
- Wheaton College: $500,000
- Young Leader’s Alumni Council: $87,500
2015[10]
- After-School All-Stars: $190,000
- Alexander Hamilton Institute: $25,000
- American Civil Rights Union: $100,000
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $5,025,000
- American Enterprise Institute: $1,750,000
- American Foreign Policy Council: $100,000
- American Jewish World Service: $20,000
- American Media Institute: $400,000
- American Private Radio: $200,000
- America’s Future Foundation: $100,000
- Appletree Institute for Education Innovation: $100,000
- Army Historical Foundation: $100,000
- Ashbrook Center at Ashland University: $100,000
- Asia America Initiative: $150,000
- Aspen Institute: $100,000
- Babson College: $425,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $200,000
- Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad: $25,000
- Bethesda Green: $50,000
- Bullis School: $5,075,000
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation: $400,000
- Capital Research Center: $25,000
- Center for Education Reform: $50,000
- Center for Inspired Teaching: $100,000
- Center for Security Policy: $400,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $125,000
- Centronia: $100,000
- Children’s National Hospital: $50,000
- City Year: $500,000
- Claremont American Strategy Group: $200,000
- Code 3 Association: $1,000,000
- College of the Atlantic: $1,500,000
- Collegiate Directions: $100,000
- Community Foundation for the National Capital Region: $10,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $100,000
- D.C. Public Education Fund: $125,000
- Daily Caller News Foundation: $150,000
- Daniel Morgan Academy: $10,900,000
- DonorsTrust: $3,005,000
- Earth University Foundation: $50,000
- Elizabeth Dole Foundation: $50,000
- Encounter Books: $5,000
- Enough is Enough Campaign: $150,000
- Essentials in Education: $30,000
- Ethics and Public Policy Center: $150,000
- Floc for Love of Children: $20,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $200,000
- Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education: $200,000
- Free Congress Foundation: $1,000,000
- Free to Choose Network: $200,000
- Freedom Alliance: $100,000
- FreedomWorks Foundation: $50,000
- Friends of Acadia: $500,000
- Friends of Choice in Urban Schools: $100,000
- Friends of Compass: $1,000
- Fund for American Studies: $100,000
- Gatestone Institute: $25,000
- Glider Lehrman Institute of American History: $100,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $600,000
- Global Good Fund: $50,000
- Gloucester Institute: $200,000
- Hoover Institute: $1,750,000
- Human Rights Foundation: $50,000
- Independent Women’s Forum: $50,000
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $100,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $50,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $200,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $50,000
- International Freedom Educational Foundation: $100,000
- International Student House D.C.: $25,000
- Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation: $200,000
- Island Readers and Writers, an Initiative for Maine Children: $10,000
- James Madison Center at Princeton University: $1,750,000
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $200,000
- Jubilee Jobs: $25,000
- Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $1,000
- Lawyers Democracy Fund: $200,000
- Leadership Greater Washington: $5,000
- Leadership Institute: $25,000
- Leading Educators: $25,000
- Liberty’s Promise: $25,000
- Linden Resources: $25,000
- Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society: $25,000
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $1,750,000
- Maplebrook School: $50,000
- Maryland Public Policy Institute: $50,000
- Masters School: $5,020,000
- Media Research Center: $500,000
- Mercatus Center: $25,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $50,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $175,000
- Minding Our Business: $5,000
- Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $25,000
- Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union: $5,000
- National Association of Scholars: $30,000
- National Center for Policy Analysis: $25,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $50,000
- National Review Institute: $25,000
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $50,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $50,000
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $310,000
- New Criterion: $5,000
- New England Farm and Garden Association: $5,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $50,000
- Numbersusa Education and Research Foundation: $100,000
- Opportunity International: $100,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $20,000
- Parentjobnet: $200,000
- Philanthropy Roundtable: $100,000
- Prague Security Studies Institute: $50,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $510,000
- Salvation Army: $15,000
- Save the Children Federation: $20,000
- School for Tomorrow: $1,200,000
- Service Year Exchange: $200,000
- Sister Cities International: $50,000
- Spauling Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation: $50,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $200,000
- State Policy Network: $100,000
- Summer Search: $30,000
- Sustainable Harvest International: $6,000
- Take Back our Republic: $200,000
- Teach for America: $25,000
- Teneo: $250,000
- The Boat Company: $5,000
- Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer: $100,000
- Turnaround for Children: $100,000
- U.S. Foundation for Liberty and Human Rights: $50,000
- United Service Organization: $50,000
- VCU Massey Cancer Center: $5,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $100,000
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy: $25,000
- Vital Voices Global Partnership: $25,000
- Warrior Scholar Project: $150,000
- Washington Tennis and Education Foundation: $101,000
- Wheaton College: $505,000
- Wildlife Conservation Network: $1,500
- Young Leader’s Alumni Council: $100,000
2014[11]
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $75,000
- American Enterprise Institute: $1,750,000
- American Foreign Policy Council: $10,000
- American Principles Project Foundation: $30,000
- Appletree Institute for Education Innovation: $50,000
- Asia America Initiative: $90,000
- Aspen Institute: $10,000
- Association of Former Intelligence Officers: $25,000
- Babson College: $25,000
- Best Friends Foundation: $75,000
- Bethesda Green: $25,000
- Boston Baroque: $10,000
- Bullis School: $75,000
- Center for Education Reform: $15,000
- Center for Inspired Teaching: $50,000
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: $75,000
- Centronia: $50,000
- Chapel Haven Incorporated: $200,000
- City Year: $50,000
- Competitive Enterprise Institute: $50,000
- Daniel Morgan Academy: $6,500,000
- Enough is Enough Campaign: $30,000
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $15,000
- Floc for Love of Children: $20,000
- Folger Shakespeare Library: $2,000
- Foundation Fighting Blindness: $10,000
- Free Congress Foundation: $20,000
- Freedom Alliance: $50,000
- FreedomWorks Foundation: $20,000
- Friends of Sulgrave Manor: $20,000
- Friends of Acadia: $10,000
- Friends of Choice in Urban Schools: $50,000
- Fund for American Studies: $25,000
- Fund for Public Schools: $25,000
- Glider Lehrman Institute of American History: $25,000
- Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Network Foundation: $25,000
- Hoover Institute: $1,750,000
- Independent Women’s Forum: $20,000
- Innovate + Educate: $200,000
- Institute for Humane Studies: $10,000
- Institute for Justice: $50,000
- Institute for Responsible Citizenship: $50,000
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $20,000
- International Conservation Caucus Foundation: $10,000
- International Freedom Educational Foundation: $20,000
- International Student House D.C.: $15,000
- Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation: $50,000
- Island Housing Trust: $5,000
- Island Readers and Writers, an Initiative for Maine Children: $5,000
- Kosciuszko Foundation: $10,000
- Leadership Greater Washington: $2,000
- Leadership Institute: $10,000
- Liberty’s Promise: $20,000
- Linden Resources: $10,000
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $5,000
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: $1,750,000
- Maplebrook School: $25,000
- Masters School: $50,000
- Meade Middle School: $18,070
- Media Research Center: $100,000
- Middle East Children’s Institute: $20,000
- Middle East Media and Research Institute: $50,000
- Miss District of Columbia Scholarship: $50,000
- Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music: $9,000
- National Fatherhood Initiative: $8,000
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation: $20,000
- National Security Enterprise: $500,000
- Neighborhood House Club: $8,000
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $530,000
- Network of Donors for Marriage and Families: $12,500
- New Leaders: $50,000
- Northeast Harbor Library: $15,000
- Numbersusa Education and Research Foundation: $50,000
- One Generation Away: $100,000
- Opportunity International: $25,000
- Pacific Research Institute: $5,000
- Parentjobnet: $75,000
- Partnership for American Foundation: $20,000
- Philanthropy Roundtable: $50,000
- Princeton University’s James Madison Program: $1,750,000
- Rising Tide Capital: $25,000
- School for Tomorrow: $75,000
- Spauling Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation: $10,000
- Special Operations Warrior Foundation: $50,000
- State Policy Network: $8,000
- Talent Market: $5,000
- Teneo: $25,000
- Turnaround for Children: $50,000
- U.S. Foundation for Liberty and Human Rights: $20,000
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation: $10,000
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy: $10,000
- Warrior Scholar Project: $50,000
- Washington Tennis and Education Foundation: $50,000
- Wheaton College: $150,000
- Women Make Movies: $10,000
- Young Leader’s Alumni Council: $10,000
2000-2014
- Atlas Network: $92,000 (2000-2014)
Core Financials
2022[16]
- Total Revenue: $63,415,278
- Total Expenses: $141,986,742
- Net Assets: $1,239,406,244
2021[17]
- Total Revenue: $31,448,274
- Total Expenses: $65,177,616
- Net Assets: $1,510,145,435
2020[18]
- Total Revenue: $43,316,651
- Total Expenses: $124,327,522
- Net Assets: $1,476,466,713
2019[19]
- Total Revenue: $41,125,334
- Total Expenses: $46,232,334
- Net Assets: $1,443,215,686
2018[7]
- Total Revenue: $55,171,401
- Total Expenses: $46,109,018
- Net Assets: $1,296,566,223
2017[8]
- Total Revenue: $31,791,682
- Total Expenses: $40,734,826
- Net Assets: $1,371,150,036
2016[9]
- Total Revenue: $15,761,822
- Total Expenses: $142,573,312
- Net Assets: $1,296,756,869
2015[10]
- Total Revenue: $100,073,347
- Total Expenses: $69,402,577
- Net Assets: $1,412,225,072
2014[11]
- Total Revenue: $156,450,491
- Total Expenses: $25,851,883
- Net Assets: $1,459.949.455
Personnel
Staff
As of March 2022:[20]
- Diana Davis Spencer, Executive Chairman; board of visitors member, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
- Abby Spencer Moffat, Chief Executive Officer and President; board member or former board member of Family Security Matters, Heritage Foundation, International Women's Forum, Media Research Center, and Virginia Institute for Public Policy
- Carole Featherstone, Chief Financial Officer
- Nicole Shaw, Senior Program Manager
- Nisi Hamilton, Special Advisor; attended ALEC's 2020 States and Nation Policy Summit, where she participated in eight sessions.
- Elizabeth Smiroldo, Senior Research Analyst/Human Resources Generalist
- Yheizzi Owen, Grants Manager
- Debbie Martin, Senior Executive Assistant
Former Staff
- Alan Kelly
- Christopher Burn
External Advisors to the Foundation
As of March 2022:[21]
- Bob Scherer, Graystone Consulting
- Maureen Shuler, Graystone Consulting
- Ross Charkatz, Graystone Consulting
- Aashish Goel, Graystone Consulting
- John Langan, CPA, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
- Victor Chang, Ivins, Phillips & Barker
Board of Trustees and Committee Members
As of March 2022:[21]
- Diana Davis Spencer, Executive Chairman
- Abby Spencer Moffat, CEO and President
- Kimberly F. Lamanna, Trustee
- Harrison Howard, Independent Trustee
- Christopher Burn, Audit & Investment Committee Member
Contact Information
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
3 Bethesda Metro Center
Bethesda, MD 20814
EIN: 20-3672969
Website: https://ddsfoundation.org/
Web contact form: https://ddsfoundation.org/contact-us/
Phone: (301) 961-4000
Articles and Resources
IRS Form 990 Filings
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Articles
- David Armiak, Revealed: The Biggest Voter Suppressor You’ve Never Heard Of, ExposedbyCMD, March 28, 2022.
Related SourceWatch
- 501(c)(3)
- ALEC 2020 States and Nation Policy Summit Attendees
- American Civil Rights Union
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Foreign Policy Council
- American Jewish World Service
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- America’s Future Foundation
- Aspen Institute
- Babson College
- Becket
- Best Friends Foundation
- Capital Research Center
- Center for Education Reform
- Center for Security Policy
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- City Year
- Community Resource Exchange
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Daily Caller News Foundation
- DonorsTrust
- Earth University Foundation
- Encounter Books
- Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Family Security Matters
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
- Foundation for Economic Education
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Free Congress Foundation
- Free to Choose Network
- Freedom Alliance
- FreedomWorks Foundation
- Fund for American Studies
- Gatestone Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Hoover Institute
- Human Rights Foundation
- Independent Institute
- Independent Women’s Forum
- Institute for Family Studies
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
- Institute for Humane Studies
- Institute for Justice
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- International Conservation Caucus Foundation
- Jackson Laboratory
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Judicial Watch
- Leadership Institute
- Lincoln Network
- Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
- Maryland Public Policy Institute
- Media Research Center
- Mercatus Center
- Middle East Media and Research Institute
- Moving Picture Institute
- National Association of Scholars
- National Center for Policy Analysis
- National Forest Foundation
- National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
- National Review Institute
- National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation
- Network of Enlightened Women
- Opportunity International
- Pacific Research Institute
- Philanthropy Roundtable
- Prague Security Studies Institute
- Salvation Army
- Save the Children Federation
- Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
- Sister Cities International
- SPN Members
- State Policy Network
- Steamboat Institute
- Student Free Press Association
- Talent Market
- Teach for America
- Turning Point USA
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
- Virginia Institute for Public Policy
- Vital Voices Global Partnership
- Wheaton College
- Wildlife Conservation Network
- Women Make Movies
References
- ↑ Guidestar, Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, organizational website, accessed March 17, 2021.
- ↑ Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, About Us, organizational website, accessed March 17, 2021.
- ↑ Foundation Center, Top 100 U.S. Foundations by Asset Size, organizational list, accessed March 22, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Philip Rojc, "Take a Look at the Biggest Pot of Conservative Money You've Never Heard Of", Inside Philanthropy, January 11, 2017, accessed March 23, 2021.
- ↑ Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, Founding Values, organizational website, accessed March 17, 2021.
- ↑ CMD, [1], "Exposed by CMD", Accessed May 23rd, 2023."
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2018 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, October 31, 2019.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2017 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 9, 2018.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2016 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 14, 2017.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2015 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 11, 2016.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2014 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 16, 2015.
- ↑ David Armiak, State Policy Network and Affiliates Raises $152 Million Annually to Push Right-Wing Policies, ExposedbyCMD, September 30, 2022.
- ↑ Rebekah Wilce, Center for Media and Democracy, EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government, organizational report, November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Jane Mayer, Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, The New Yorker, November 15, 2013.
- ↑ Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax, The Guardian, December 5, 2013.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2022 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 9, 2023.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2021 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 12, 2022.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2020 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 12, 2021.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, 2019 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 11, 2020.
- ↑ Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, Our People, organizational website, accessed March 28, 2022.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, accessed March 28, 2022.