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In October 2011 the Roundtable awarded [[Charles G. Koch]] the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. The award gives $250,000 to a charity of the prize recipient's choice, and is intended to "honor living philanthropists who have shown exemplary leadership through their own charitable giving, either directly or through foundations they have created." In its explanation for why Koch was the recipient, the Roundtable claimed that stated, "For more than 40 years, he has been at the forefront of strategic investment in ideas, think tanks, and academic research." <ref> Philanthropy Roundtable, [http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_philanthropy/2011_william_e_simon_prize_for_philanthropic_leadership The Philanthropy Roundtable announces Charles G. Koch as the 2011 recipient of the William E. Simon Prize.], organizational website, accessed 10/October 20/, 2011 .</ref> Not surprisingly, Koch has maintained a longstanding financial relationship with the foundationorganization.

[[Koch Family Foundations]] gave an aggregate of $363,445 to the Philanthropy Roundtable between 1993 and 2012.<ref>American Bridge 21st Century Foundation Conservative Transparency Project, [http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/philanthropy-roundtable/ Philanthropy Roundtable Transactions], ''ConservativeTransparency.org'', accessed July 7, 2014.</ref> The Philanthropy Roundtable received $319,245 in donations from the [[Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation]] between 1993 and 2012; and $44,200 from the [[Claude R. Lambe Foundation]] between 2002 and 2003.<ref>American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, [http://old.mediatransparencyconservativetransparency.org/recipientfundergrants.phprecipient/philanthropy-roundtable/?funderID=9&recipientIDorder_by=280 Media Transparency: Grants to donor_name+ASC#grants Philanthropy Roundtable from Charles G: Donors], ''ConservativeTransparency. Koch Charitable Foundation]org'', accessed 10/20/2011 July 2014.</ref>Between 2002 and 2003, the [[Claude R. Lambe Foundation]] donated $44,200 to the Philanthropy Roundtable.

Koch has a long history of involvement at the Roundtable's annual meetings. He was a presenter at the 2011 annual Philanthropy Roundtable conference.<ref> Philanthropy Roundtable, [http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/events/2011_annual_meeting_agenda2011 Annual Meeting Agenda] , organizational website, accessed October 20, 2011 .</ref> A 1997 report by the National Committee on Response Philanthropy documented the participation of the Koch Brothers in the 1995 conference:

:"In a presentation at the Philanthropy Roundtable's 1995 annual conference, [[Richard Fink]], president of the [[Koch family foundations|Charles G. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations]], made good use of market metaphors to outline how foundations can exert the greatest impact on public policy. Adapting laissez-faire economist Friedrich Hayek's model of the production process to social change grant-making, Fink argued that the translation of ideas into action requires the development of intellectual raw materials, their conversion into specific policy products, and the marketing and distribution of these products to citizen-consumers.

:"Grantmakers, Fink argued, would do well to invest in change along the entire production continuum, funding scholars and university programs where the intellectual framework for social transformation is developed, think tanks where scholarly ideas get translated into specific policy proposals, and implementation groups to bring these proposals into the political marketplace and eventually to consumers." <ref>National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, [http://www.ncrp.org/index.php?option=com_ixxocart&Itemid=41&p=product&id=7&parent=3 Moving a Public Policy Agenda: the Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations], organizational report, July 1997, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120310131911/http://old.mediatransparency.org/pdaconservativephilanthropy.phpquoted here] accessed October 20, 2011 .</ref>