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Franklin Center Director of Communications Michael Moroney told the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) in 2013 that the source of the Franklin Center's funding "is 100 percent anonymous." But 95 percent of its 2011 funding came from [[DonorsTrust]], a spin-off of the [[Philanthropy Roundtable]] that functions as a large "donor-advised fund," cloaking the identity of donors to right-wing causes across the country (CPI did a review of Franklin's Internal Revenue Service records).<ref name="Abowd">Paul Abowd, Center for Public Integrity, [http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states], organizational report, February 14, 2013.</ref> ''Mother Jones'' called DonorsTrust "the dark-money ATM of the conservative movement" in a February 2013 article.<ref>Andy Kroll, [http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement], ''Mother Jones'', February 5, 2013.</ref> Franklin received DonorTrust's second-largest donation in 2011.<ref name="Abowd"/>
One of the major contributors to Donors Trust is the [[Knowledge and Progress Fund ]] founded and run by Charles Koch. The foundation gave almost $8 million to [[DonorsTrust]] (DT) between 2005 and 2011.<ref>Paul Abowd, "[http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states: Nonprofit group lets donors fly 'totally under the radar],'" Center for Public Integrity, February 14, 2013.</ref> The fund began its contributions to [[Donors Trust]] DT in 2005, with a $390,000 contribution.<ref>Knowledge and Progress Fund, [http://207.153.189.83/EINS/541899251/541899251_2005_029E8809.PDF 2005 Form 990], organization's annual Internal Revenue Service filing, November 13, 2006.</ref> In both 2007 and 2008, the foundation gave $1.25 million per year to DT<ref name="Independent">Steve Connor, "[http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html Exclusive: Billionaires Secretly Fund Attacks on Climate Science]," ''The Independent'', January, 24, 2013.</ref> and another $2 million in 2010.<ref>Knowledge and Progress Fund, [http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2010/541/899/2010-541899251-07b9608e-F.pdf 2010 Form 990], organization's annual Internal Revenue Service filing, November, 21, 2011.</ref>
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