**2011: $50,000
*====DonorsTrust====In 2011 [[DonorsTrust]]:**2011: provided $6.3 millionin funding for the Franklin Center. <ref>Joe Strupp,[http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/22/franklin-center-top-donor-is-right-wings-dark-m/192770 Franklin Center Top Donor Is Right-Wing's "Dark Money" ATM], ''Media Matters'', Feb. 22, 2013.</ref> 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 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>
====Majority of Funding Comes from "the Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement," Donors Trust====