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'''Donors Capital Fund''' ('''DCF''') is a ] nonprofit organization that serves as a ]. Donors Capital Fund is associated with ].<ref name="MJ">{{cite news|last=Kroll|first=Andy|title=Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement|url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos|newspaper=Mother Jones|date=February 5, 2013}}</ref> According to Donors Capital Fund, the group was "formed to safeguard the charitable intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."<ref>DonorsTrust, , foundation website, accessed October 28, 2010.</ref> '''Donors Capital Fund''' ('''DCF''') is a ] nonprofit organization that serves as a ]. Donors Capital Fund is associated with ].<ref name="MJ">{{cite news|last=Kroll|first=Andy|title=Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement|url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos|newspaper=Mother Jones|date=February 5, 2013}}</ref> According to Donors Capital Fund, the group was "formed to safeguard the charitable intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."<ref>DonorsTrust, , foundation website, accessed October 28, 2010.</ref>

==Background==

According to ], a ] sociologist featured on PBS '']'' in October 2012, ] and Donors Capital Fund "have the same address, and I treat them as simultaneously the same organization."
<ref>, PBS ''Frontline'', October 23, 2012.</ref>


==Funding recipients== ==Funding recipients==
According to ], a ] sociologist featured on PBS '']'' in October 2012, "by 2009, about one-quarter of the funding of the climate countermovement is from the Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund." According to Brulle, ] and Donors Capital Fund "have the same address, and I treat them as simultaneously the same organization." According to Brulle, "by 2009, about one-quarter of the funding of the climate countermovement is from the Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund."
<ref>, PBS ''Frontline'', October 23, 2012.</ref> DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund had distributed nearly $120 million dollars to more than 100 groups "casting doubt about the science behind climate change" between 2002 and 2010, according to the '']''.<ref name=secret>{{cite news|last1=Goldenberg|first1=Suzanne|title=Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks|url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network|accessdate=7 February 2015|publisher=The Guardian|date=February 14, 2013}}</ref> <ref>, PBS ''Frontline'', October 23, 2012.</ref> DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund had distributed nearly $120 million dollars to more than 100 groups "casting doubt about the science behind climate change" between 2002 and 2010, according to the '']''.<ref name=secret>{{cite news|last1=Goldenberg|first1=Suzanne|title=Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks|url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network|accessdate=7 February 2015|publisher=The Guardian|date=February 14, 2013}}</ref>


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Donors Capital Fund
TypeNonprofit (501(c)(3))
Tax ID no. 54-1934032
ServicesDonor advised fund
PresidentWhitney Ball
Websitewww.donorscapitalfund.org

Donors Capital Fund (DCF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves as a donor advised fund. Donors Capital Fund is associated with DonorsTrust. According to Donors Capital Fund, the group was "formed to safeguard the charitable intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."

Background

According to Robert Brulle, a Drexel University sociologist featured on PBS Frontline in October 2012, DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund "have the same address, and I treat them as simultaneously the same organization."

Funding recipients

According to Brulle, "by 2009, about one-quarter of the funding of the climate countermovement is from the Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund." DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund had distributed nearly $120 million dollars to more than 100 groups "casting doubt about the science behind climate change" between 2002 and 2010, according to the The Guardian.

Donors Capital Fund paid the legal fees of the Project on Fair Representation, a Washington, D.C.-based legal defense fund that assembled the plaintiff's legal team in Fisher v. University of Texas, a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2008, the Donors Capital Fund granted $17.7 million to The Clarion Fund, now the The Clarion Project, a nonprofit corporation organized for the education of the US public about the dangers of Islamic extremism. ”One of our clients made a recommendation for Clarion and so we did it,” Whitney Ball, president of Donors Capital Fund, told Salon, the news website.

Donors Capital Fund granted $192,000 to the Alaska Policy Forum, the Alaska member of the State Policy Network, a consortium of conservative and libertarian think tanks which focus on state-level policy, in 2009 and 2010, the Forum's first two years, which was most of the funds raised by the Forum in that period.

Leadership

As of June 2014, the board of directors consists of Adam Meyerson, Kimberly Dennis, Whitney Ball, Arthur Brooks, Steven Hayward, Kris Mauren, William Mellor, Roger Ream, and John Von Kannon.

References

  1. Kroll, Andy (February 5, 2013). "Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement". Mother Jones.
  2. DonorsTrust, About Donors Capital Fund, foundation website, accessed October 28, 2010.
  3. Robert Brulle: Inside the Climate Change “Countermovement”, PBS Frontline, October 23, 2012.
  4. Robert Brulle: Inside the Climate Change “Countermovement”, PBS Frontline, October 23, 2012.
  5. Goldenberg, Suzanne (February 14, 2013). "Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  6. Smith, Morgan (February 23, 2012). "One Man Standing Against Race-Based Laws". New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  7. Elliott, Justin (November 16, 2010). "Mystery of who funded right-wing "radical Islam" campaign deepens". Salon. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  8. Zornick, George (August 29, 2011). "Fear, Inc.: America's Islamophobia Network". The Nation. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
  9. Steinback, Robert (August 26, 2011). "New Report Details Funding Sources Behind Anti-Muslim Fearmongers". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  10. DeMarban, Alex (September 14, 2014). "Conservative group shapes Alaska policy debate with Outside help". Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  11. "Donors Capital Fund Board of Directors". Donors Capital Fund. Retrieved 19 June 2014.

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