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{{#badges:Koch Exposed|front groups}}'''Concerned Veterans for America''' (CVA) is a [[501(c)(4)]] non-profit whose major funders through the years have been the [[Koch brothers]] and their donor network; as such Sourcewatch.org considers CVA to be a Koch Brothers front group.<ref name="koch players">Matea Gold, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-players-in-the-koch-backed-400-million-political-donor-network/2014/01/05/714451a8-74b5-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html The players in the Koch-backed $400 million political donor network]," ''Washington Post'', January 5, 2014. Accessed June 18, 2014.</ref> The Koch donors network appears to use CVA to advocate for reductions in federal spending, to attack the 2010 Affordable Care Act and to advance other "free market" policies.
An investigation by ''ProPublica'' found that Concerned Veterans for America is funded submits its IRS filings under the name Vets for Economic Freedom Trust. Those documents list former [[Koch Industries]] managing director [[Wayne Gable]] as a trustee.<ref name="TOHE">Kim Barker and Theodoric Meyer, "[http://www.propublica.org/article/who-controls-koch-political-network-asmi-slah-tohe Who Controls the Kochs’ Political Network? ASMI, SLAH and TOHE]," ''ProPublica'', March 17, 2014. Accessed June 18, 2014.</ref>
Many Koch funding vehicles are set up as nonprofit trusts rather than not-for-profit corporations, "an unusual step that reduces their public reporting requirements," says ProPublica.