Stand Together Trust

The Stand Together Trust, whose tax ID was formerly used by the Koch network's Seminar Network Trust and Concerned Veterans for America, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization led by Charles Koch, Chase Koch, Koch lieutenant Mark Holden, and other operatives of the Koch network. As of April 2020, the group has no web presence so very little is known of its current activities. According to Seminar Network Trust's most recent IRS filing, its mission is to "fund initiatives aimed at researching, analyzing, and publicizing across a range of broad social and economic issues affecting the nation and the well-being of every American."

Koch Wiki

Charles Koch is the right-wing billionaire owner of Koch Industries. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include: Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, Stand Together, Koch Family Foundations, Koch Universities, and I360.

Funding

The Stand Together Trust is not required to disclose its funders. Its major foundation funders, however, can be found through a search of the IRS filings. Here are the known funders:

• California Community Foundation: $200,000 (2019)
• Charles Koch Foundation: $2,500,000 (2019)
• Deason Foundation: $1,102,134 (2017-2018)
• Dunn Foundation: $10,000 (2020)
• DonorsTrust: $1,200,000 (2017-2018)
• Greater Horizons: $60,000 (2019)
• Luddy Charitable Foundation: $250,000 (2017)
• Miles Foundation: $125,000 (2019)
• Renker Family Foundation: $100,000 (2017)
• Rudd Foundation: $250,000 (2019)
• Society for Human Resource Management: $100,000 (2019)

Core Financials

2022

• Total Revenue: $63,933,238
• Total Expenses: $124,216,223
• Net Assets: $329,090,062

Grants Distributed

• 4.0 Schools: $112,500
• 50CAN: $650,000
• AccesSOS: $132,500
• Afterschool Alliance: $307,000
• Alliance Defending Freedom: $517,000
• America Succeeds: $150,000
• American Council of Trustees and Alumni: $6,000
• American Enterprise Institute: $666,235
• American Immigration Council: $320,000
• American Legislative Exchange Council: $600,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $7,885,000
• Arizona State University Foundation: $300,000
• Association of Prosecuting Attorneys: $150,000
• Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation: $50,000
• Aurora Institute: $250,000
• Available to All: $575,000
• Ballotpedia: $497,000
• Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research: $800,000
• Bay City News Foundation: $17,800
• Bay Nature Institute: $32,000
• Beacon Center of Tennessee: $25,000
• Becket Fund for Religious Liberty: $500,000
• Bill of Rights Institute: $4,457,781
• Bipartisan Policy Center: $540,000
• Blue Forest: $500,000
• Braver Angels: $55,000
• Bridge Alliance: $35,000
• Brigid's Path: $7,000
• Building 21: $400,000
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: $909,954
• Carrell Clinic Foundation: $30,000
• Catholic University of America: $1,100,000
• Cato Institute: $1,838,162
• Center for American Experiment: $250,000
• Center for Growth and Opportunity: $6,553,592
• Center for Migration Studies of New York: $75,000
• Center for the National Interest: $106,010
• Charles Koch Foundation: $200,000
• Chicago Council on Global Affairs: $322,619
• Chicago Public Media: $37,000
• Children's Home Society of North Carolina: $100,000
• Christianity Today: $457,000
• Clayton Christensen Institute: $400,000
• College Bound Dorchester: $19,788
• College of the Holy Cross: $400,000
• Committee for Justice Foundation: $28,077
• Commonwealth Foundation: $240,000
• Competitive Enterprise Institute: $120,000
• Connecticut News Project: $25,600
• Council of State Governments: $62,500
• Council on Criminal Justice: $150,000
• Council on Foreign Relations: $60,000
• DC Witness: $36,000
• Defense Priorities Foundation: $349,375
• Devoted Dreamers Foundation: $185,000
• Education Reimagined: $300,000
• Edward Charles Foundation: $330,000
• Empire Center for Public Policy: $165,000
• Empower Mississippi Foundation: $50,000
• End it for Good: $104,720
• Energy Innovation Reform Project: $125,000
• Enlace Latino NC: $13,600
• Eurasia Group: $36,563
• Eurasia Group Foundation: $780,000
• Fair Chance Institute: $110,000
• Fair Trials Americas: $200,000
• Families Empowered: $82,000
• Federalist Society: $1,000,000
• Foreign Policy for America: $9,500
• Foundation for Economic Education: $125,000
• Foundation for Excellence in Education: $10,200
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $5,789,014
• Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity: $225,000
• Fraser Institute: $75,000
• Fresnoland Media: $14,000
• Friends Committee on National Legislation Education Fund: $50,000
• Frontier Institute: $10,769
• George Mason University Foundation: $9,363,045
• Georgia Public Policy Foundation: $150,000
• GripTape: $250,000
• Independent Women's Forum: $100,000
• Institute for Free Speech: $9,500
• Institute for Humane Studies: $5,527,055
• Institute for Reforming Government: $200,000
• Institute on Religion and Democracy: $100,000
• International Center for Law & Economics: $500,000
• International Crisis Group: $950,000
• Iron Light Labs: $32,173
• Jobs for the Future: $450,000
• John Quincy Adams Society: $1,092,005
• Judicial Education Institute: $150,000
• Jumpstart South Carolina: $6,200
• Kansas Policy Institute: $100,000
• Khan Lab School: $360,000
• Law Enforcement Action Partnership: $50,000
• Lawfare Institute: $8,750
• Lawndale Christian Legal Center: $250,000
• Libertas Institute: $58,000
• Mackinac Center for Public Policy: $525,000
• Manhattan Institute: $495,000
• Mastery Transcript Consortium: $339,000
• Measures for Justice: $250,000
• Mercatus Center: $2,000,000
• Migration Policy Institute: $100,000
• Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship: $700,000
• MinnPost: $20,800
• Mississippi Center for Public Policy: $120,000
• Montana Chamber Foundation: $25,000
• Moral Courage Project: $32,000
• Movement Forward: $300,000
• NACDL Foundation for Criminal Justice: $632,000
• Nantucket Project Academy: $150,000
• National Association of Evangelicals: $20,000
• National Foundation for American Policy: $65,000
• National Immigration Forum: $400,000
• National Philanthropic Trust: $1,666,667
• National Public Radio: $42,000
• National Taxpayers Union Foundation: $525,000
• Nevada Action for School Options: $205,500
• Nevada News Bureau: $38,000
• New Blue Project: $250,000
• New Civil Liberties Alliance: $1,015,069
• New Venture Fund: $25,000
• North Dakota State University Foundation and Alumni Association: $25,000
• Northeastern University: $42,000
• One Voice United: $90,000
• Oregon Public Broadcasting: $28,594
• Pacific Legal Foundation: $1,995,500
• Pacific Research Institute: $175,000
• Paragon Health Institute: $2,885,000
• Patients Rising: $50,000
• Pelican Institute: $50,000
• Philanthropy Roundtable: $200,000
• Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy: $120,000
• Prison Fellowship Ministries: $1,015,000
• Property and Environment Research Center: $600,000
• Public Policy Institute of California: $237,000
• Public Religion Research Institute: $50,000
• Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: $851,044
• R Street Institute: $442,138
• RAND Corporation: $555,000
• Reason Foundation: $1,531,365
• Recidiviz: $175,000
• Reformers Academy: $45,000
• Rising Tide Capital: $200,000
• ROCA: $300,000
• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: $2,120,000
• Safe Families for Children Alliance: $84,000
• Santa Clara University: $1,400,000
• Schoolhouse World: $1,010,000
• SHRM Foundation: $98,500
• Southern Methodist University: $600,000
• Sponsors: $46,000
• Stand Together Fellowships: $500,000
• Stand Together Foundation: $2,015,500
• State Business Executives: $30,000
• Stimson Center: $900,000
• StoryCorps: $325,000
• Street Sense: $49,966
• Students for Liberty: $7,492
• TechFreedom: $290,800
• Technology Policy Institute: $150,000
• Texas Fair Defense Project: $208,000
• Texas Public Policy Foundation: $2,050,000
• Texas Tribune: $90,000
• The 74 Media: $277,400
• The American Ideas Institute: $235,000
• The Brookings Institution: $50,000
• The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions: $141,096
• The Cicero Institute: $250,000
• The Forest School: $150,000
• The George W. Bush Foundation: $450,000
• The Heritage Foundation: $200,000
• The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy: $40,000
• The Manufacturing Institute: $800,000
• The One America Movement: $9,000
• The Phoenix: $139,200
• The Salt Lake Tribune: $19,900
• The Sixth Amendment Center: $220,000
• The Verdi EcoSchool: $50,000
• Think Freely Media: $100,000
• Think of Us: $25,000
• Thomas B Fordham Institute: $11,981
• Trek Medics International: $50,000
• Truth in Numbers: $20,000
• Unite America Institute: $100,000
• University Hospitals: $200,000
• University of Idaho Foundation: $85,000
• University of Kansas: $50,000
• University of Nebraska Foundation: $75,000
• University of Notre Dame: $15,745
• University of Southern California: $100,000
• Upwardly Global: $660,000
• Urban Institute: $264,000
• VELA Education Fund: $6,340,018
• Vertex Partnership Academies: $100,000
• Veterans 4 America First Institute: $75,000
• West Virginia Families United for Education: $50,000
• World Relief: $976,000
• Yes Every Kid Foundation: $2,010,000
• Young Americans for Liberty Foundation: $230,538
• Young Voices: $167,250
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $1,365,034

2021

• Total Revenue: $278,674,897
• Total Expenses: $60,578,305
• Net Assets: $356,859,594

Grants Distributed

• 4.0 Schools: $250,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $7,500,000
• Arizona State University Foundation: $2,100,000
• Bill of Rights Institute: $3,996,444
• Carrell Clinic Foundation: $400,000
• Catholic University of America: $1,220,000
• Cause of Action: $375,000
• Center for Growth and Opportunity: $3,310,000
• Chapman University: $100,000
• Charles Koch Foundation: $749,980
• College of the Holy Cross: $275,000
• Curriki: $150,000
• Democracy Found: $200,000
• Duke University: $100,000
• Edward Charles Foundation: $1,433,000
• Florida State University Foundation: $425,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $1,290,500
• George Mason University Foundation: $11,665,352
• Home Builders Institute: $430,000
• Institute for Humane Studies: $4,040,000
• Mastery Transcript Consortium: $13,000
• Minerva Institute for Research and Scholars: $400,000
• Pacific Legal Foundation: $975,000
• Paragon Health Institute: $1,950,106
• Rice University: $500,000
• Recidiviz: $40,000
• Santa Clara University: $1,203,300
• Schoolhouse World: $20,000
• Southern Methodist University: $50,000
• Stand Together Foundation: $2,094,898
• Sword and Spoon Workshop: $40,000
• Taking Action for Good: $25,000
• Texas Public Policy Foundation: $500,000
• Truth, Enterprise, Liberty Foundation: $100,000
• University of Arizona: $10,000
• University of Southern California: $100,000
• University of Texas at Austin: $200,000
• Vela Education Fund: $7,915,000
• West Virginia University Foundation: $200,000
• Young Americans for Liberty Foundation: $175,000
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $913,208

2020

• Total Revenue: $104,032,743
• Total Expenses: $41,111,947
• Net Assets: $136,224,175

Grants Distributed

• 4.0 Schools: $500,000
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $6,580,395
• Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnyland: $125,000
• Arizona State University Foundation: $575,000
• Bellwether Education Partners: $1,000,000
• Bill of Rights Institute: $2,621,434
• Catholic University of America: $95,000
• Cause of Action Institute: $1,100,000
• Center for Growth and Opportunity: $1,900,000
• Charles Koch Foundation: $400,000
• College of the Holy Cross: $92,000
• Curriki: $300,000
• Duke University: $100,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $509,500
• George W. Bush Foundation: $250,000
• Greater Horizons: $14,800,000
• Pacific Legal Foundation: $25,000
• Rice University: $666,667
• Santa Clara University: $1,200,000
• Stand Together Foundation: $1,787,500
• Texas Public Policy Foundation: $780,000
• University of Arizona: $45,000
• University of California-Los Angeles: $350,000
• University of Colorado Foundation: $600,000
• University of Nebraska Foundation: $175,000
• University of Texas at Austin: $200,000
• University of Texas at Dallas: $50,000
• Vela Education Fund: $3,064,867
• Yes Every Kid Foundation: $500,000
• Young Americans for Liberty Foundation: $116,940
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $462,500

2019

• Total Revenue: $23,531,841
• Total Expenses: $45,591,475
• Net Assets: $84,327,658

Grants Distributed

• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $12,775,573
• Arizona State University Foundation: $15,000
• Bill of Rights Institute: $350,000
• Cafe Momentum: $52,500
• Catholic University of America: $330,000
• Cause of Action Institute: $4,000,000
• Charles Koch Foundation: $850,000
• College of the Holy Cross: $400,000
• EdChoice: $882,500
• Emporia State University Foundation: $20,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $770,000
• Fidelity Charitable: $15,000,000
• Greater Horizons: $1,000,000
• Iaclc: $280,000
• Institute for Humane Studies: $705,000
• Loras College: $250,000
• Mercatus Center: $158,500
• National Conference on Citizenship: $150,000
• North Park University: $35,000
• Santa Clara University: $875,000
• Schwab Charitable: $25,000
• Stand Together Foundation: $3,455,500
• Phoenix Multisport: $82,000
• Texas Public Policy Foundation: $500,000
• University of Kansas: $15,000
• University of Texas at Austin: $400,000
• Young Americans for Liberty Foundation: $575,000
• Youth Entrepreneurs: $1,570,000

2018

• Total Revenue: $75,081,933
• Total Expenses: $6,551,900
• Net Assets: $100,907,071

Grants Distributed

• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $2,670,000
• Bill of Rights Institute: $475,000
• Cause of Action Institute: $2,250,000
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: $250,000
• Rice University: $333,333
• Stand Together: $363,113
• Young Americans for Liberty Foundation: $200,000

2017

• Total Revenue: $27,427,504
• Total Expenses: $8,100,150
• Net Assets: $32,550,323

Grants Distributed

• Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $750,000
• Arizona Education Project: $1,250,000
• Association of American Educators Foundation: $250,000
• Cafe Momentum: $30,000
• Capitol Preparatory Schools: $100,000
• Catholic University: $480,000
• Cause of Action Institute: $3,000,000
• EdChoice: $735,000
• Fidelity Charitable: $50,000
• Florida State University: $900,000
• Loras College: $86,000
• Stand Together: $402,040
• Young Americans for Liberty Foundation: $50,000

Personnel

As of November 2023:

Staff

• Brian Menkes, Secretary
• Kara Hartnett, Treasurer
• Derek Johnson, Executive Director
• Nikolas C Walker, Director of Free Speech & Peace
• Emily G Schofield, Director of Grant Management
• Noelle J Huffman, Director of Operations, Development
• Haley Ast, Program Officer, K-12 Education
• Vikrant P Reddy, Senior Fellow, Criminal Justice Reform

Former Staff

• Robert Heaton, Treasurer
• Susan Motiff, Treasurer

Board of Directors

• Chase Koch
• Brian Hooks
• Dale Gibbens
• David L Robertson

Former Directors

• Mark Holden
• Charles Koch

Contact Information

Seminar Network Trust
1320 N. Courthouse Road, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: 571-290-6811

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