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The John William Pope Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization describing itself as "work[ing] to improve the well-being of the citizens of North Carolina and the nation through the advancement of individual freedom and personal responsibility." Chaired by North Carolina businessman Art Pope, the John William Pope Foundation was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1][2]

A 2010 analysis of tax records found the John William Pope Foundation supplied about 90% of the income of leading conservative nonprofits in North Carolina, such as SPN Members John Locke Foundation and Civitas Institute, as well as the North Carolina branch of Americans for Prosperity.[3]

News and Controversies

Art Pope Appointed to University of North Carolina Board of Governors

In June 2020, North Carolina's state senate appointed Art Pope to serve a one-year term on the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors.[4][5]

Funded American Media Institute, Part of a Right-Wing Megadonor Media Push

Center for Media and Democracy names John William Pope Foundation in a 2020 investigation of right-wing megadonors funding of media platforms. The report focuses on the foundation's funding of American Media Institute (AMI), noting how AMI "bills itself as an independent investigative news service, but from 2015-16, DonorsTrust, Donors Capital Fund, the John William Pope Foundation, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation gave it nearly $6.1 million, which was more than two-thirds of its total revenue."[6]

Helped Fund InfluenceWatch, the Right-Wing Copy of SourceWatch

John William Pope Foundation contributed $50,000 towards the creation of Influence Watch, a right-wing copy of SourceWatch launched in 2017 by Capital Research Center and supported by Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.[7]

Ties to the State Policy Network

The Pope Foundation is a major funder of the State Policy Network, contributing over $87.3 million to SPN, its members, and associate members between 1993-2018. (See below) SPN is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of April 2023, SPN's membership totals 163. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told the Wall Street Journal in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2022 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $152 million.[8] Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right-wing network of funders.[9]

In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"[10]

A set of coordinated fundraising proposals obtained and released by The Guardian in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying," The Guardian notes.[11]

Ties to the Koch Brothers

John William Pope Foundation has contributed over $1.3 million to the Koch-founded nonprofit Americans for Prosperity (AFP) since 2004. In 2010, a report named John William Pope Foundation as AFP's second-largest institutional funder.[12] Americans for Prosperity, along with FreedomWorks, served as a principal organizer in Tea Party Patriots protests in 2009.[13]

Between 2004 and 2015, John William Pope Foundation received $117,586 from Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.

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.

Ties to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

The Pope Foundation is closely tied to the Bradley Foundation. The current chairman of the board of both foundations is Art Pope. Also, between 2012 and 2016 the Pope Foundation received $2,029,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. See: Contributions of the Bradley Foundation

Bradley Files

In 2017, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), publishers of SourceWatch, launched a series of articles on the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, exposing the inner-workings of one of America's largest right-wing foundations. 56,000 previously undisclosed documents laid bare the Bradley Foundation's highly politicized agenda. CMD detailed Bradley's efforts to map and measure right wing infrastructure nationwide, including by dismantling and defunding unions to impact state elections; bankrolling discredited spin doctor Richard Berman and his many front groups; and more.

Find the series here at ExposedbyCMD.org.

Ties to the Council for National Policy

The Pope Foundation has provided funding to the Council for National Policy.

Council for National Policy

The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a secretive, Christian Right organization of funders and activists founded in 1981 by activist Morton Blackwell, commentator Paul Weyrich, direct-mail pioneer Richard Viguerie, right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly and Left Behind author Tim LaHaye. Anne Nelson's book about CNP, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, describes how the organization connects "the manpower and media of the Christian right with the finances of Western plutocrats and the strategy of right-wing Republican political operatives.”

CNP membership as of September 2020 is available here.

Funding

Donors Capital Fund and DonorsTrust

A report by the Center for Public Integrity exposes a number of DonorsTrust funders, many of which have ties to the Koch brothers. One of the most prominent funders is the Knowledge and Progress Fund, a Charles Koch-run organization and one of the group's largest known contributors, having donated nearly $9 million from 2005 to 2012. Other contributors known to have donated at least $1 million to DonorsTrust include the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation, Searle Freedom Trust, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation.[14]

Since its inception in 1999, DonorsTrust has been used by conservative foundations and individuals to discretely funnel nearly $400 million to like-minded think tanks and media outlets.[14] According to the organization's tax documents, in 2011, DonorsTrust contributed a total of $86 million to conservative organizations. Many recipients had ties to the State Policy Network (SPN), a wide collection of conservative state-based think tanks and media organizations that focus on shaping public policy and opinion. In 2013, the Center for Media and Democracy released a special report on SPN. Those who received DonorsTrust funding included media outlets such as the Franklin Center and the Lucy Burns Institute, as well as think tanks such as SPN itself, Heartland Institute, Illinois Policy Institute, Independence Institute, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, South Carolina Policy Council, American Legislative Exchange Council, Manhattan Institute, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and Cascade Policy Institute.[15]

Between 2010 and 2015, John William Pope Foundation received at least $101,750 combined from Donors Capital Fund and DonorsTrust. These two organizations advertise themselves as a way for donors to remain hidden, especially when "funding sensitive or controversial issues."[16] (See DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund Grant Recipients for more).

Grants Distributed

2020[17]

  • 50can: $15,000
  • Acton Institute For The Study Of Religion: $5,000
  • Acts Of Vance County: $15,000
  • Alliance Medical Ministry: $­ 25,000
  • American Enterprise Institute: $10,000
  • American Institute For Economic Research: $5,000
  • American Juris Link: $20,000
  • American Legislative Exchange Council: $25,000
  • American Studies Center ­ Radio America: $­
  • Broadcast Journalism Internship: $10,000
  • America's Future Foundation: $6,500
  • Archbridge Institute: $15,000
  • Artsplosure: $10,000
  • Ashbrook Center At Ashland University: $35,000
  • Asheville School: $50,000
  • Asheville School: $242,500
  • Asheville School: $250,000
  • Atlas Network: $25,000
  • Backstretch Employee Services Team Of Ny: $5,000
  • Belmont Abbey College: $35,000
  • Boys & Girls Club Of North Central Nc: $10,000
  • Boys And Girls Homes Of Nc: $­ 10,000
  • Buckeye Institute: $10,000
  • Camorral: $15,000
  • Campbell University: $50,000
  • Capital Research Center: $50,000
  • Carolina Ballet: $50,000
  • Carolina Liberty Foundation: $6,000
  • Casa: $10,000
  • Catholic Charities Raleigh Diocese: $20,000
  • Cato Institute: $50,000
  • Charitable Allies Inc: $5,000
  • Civitas Institute: $841,000
  • Classical Liberals In The Carolinas: $­ 15,000
  • Clemson Inst For The Study Of Capitalism: $25,000
  • Coalition Nc: $10,000
  • College Of Charleston Foundation: $28,335
  • Community Music School: $15,000
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute: $30,000
  • Corral Riding Academy: $15,000
  • Coweta Samaritan Clinic Inc: $10,000
  • Daniel Center For Math And Science: $20,000
  • Dress For Success Triangle Nc: $15,000
  • Duke University: $­150,000
  • Duke University: $­ 73,000
  • Embassy Cultural Center Foundation: $­ 35,000
  • Fair Lines America Foundation: $250,000
  • Federalist Society: $50,000
  • Fellowship Home Of Raleigh: $15,000
  • Food Bank Of Central & Eastern N C: $10,000
  • Foundation For Economic Education: $20,000
  • Foundation for Government Accountability: $50,000
  • Foundation For Individual Rights In Ed: $50,000
  • Franklin News Foundation: $­ 15,000
  • Fraser Institute: $10,000
  • Freedomworks: $­ 50,000
  • Full Gospel Tabernacle Church: $25,000
  • Girl Scouts Nc Coastal Pines: $5,000
  • Godwin Presbyterian Church: $8,000
  • Grayson Jockey Club Research Foundation: $46,128
  • Green Chair Project: $25,000
  • Green Chair Project: $50,000
  • Habitat For Humanity Of Wake: $20,000
  • Helping Horse: $5,000
  • Henderson Ymca: $15,000
  • Heritage Foundation: $10,000
  • Hope Reins: $10,000
  • Independent Institute: $­ 10,000
  • Independent Women's Forum: $25,000
  • Institute For Energy Research: $10,000
  • Institute For Free Speech: $60,000
  • Institute For Humane Studies: $200,000
  • Institute For Humane Studies: $85,000
  • Institute For Humane Studies: $100,000
  • Institute For Humane Studies: $40,000
  • Institute For Justice: $50,000
  • Institute For Justice: $25,000
  • Institute Of Political Leadership: $50,000
  • Interact: $5,000
  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute: $­ 10,000
  • Interfaith Prison Ministry For Women: $20,000
  • Iron Light Labs: $­ 95,000
  • James G Martin Center: $450,000
  • Jesse Helms Center Foundation: $25,000
  • Jesse Helms Center Foundation: $­ 25,000
  • Jobs For Life: $10,000
  • John Locke Foundation: $3,433,000
  • Jonathan Project: $50,000
  • Jonathan Project: $­50,000
  • Junior Achievement Of Eastern N C: $10,000
  • Kidznotes: $10,000
  • Law & Econ Center At Gmu: $25,000
  • Liberty Justice Center: $25,000
  • Life Experiences: $5,000
  • Lincoln Network: $30,000
  • Loaves & Fishes Ministry: $15,000
  • Lucy Burns Institute Ballotpedia: $­ 100,000
  • Lucy Burns Institute Ballotpedia: $­75,000
  • Manhattan Institute: $­35,000
  • Masonic Home For Children At Oxford: $25,000
  • Mercatus Center At Gmu: $135,000
  • Methodist Home For Children: $5,000
  • Nami Nc: $50,000
  • National Review Institute: $50,000
  • National Review Institute: $15,000
  • National Taxpayers Union: $35,000
  • Nc Business Leaders For Education (Best Nc): $30,000
  • Nc Center On Actual Innocence: $20,000
  • Nc Family Policy Council: $­50,000
  • Nc Family Policy Council: $110,000
  • Nc Freeenterprise Foundation: $7,800
  • Nc Freeenterprise Foundation: $50,000
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,833
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,834
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,834
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,834
  • Nc Institute For Constitutional Law: $20,834
  • Nc Master Chorale: $12,500
  • Nc Museum Of Art Foundation: $30,000
  • Nc Opera Company: $30,000
  • Nc Symphony: $20,000
  • Ncsu Foundation: $­ 53,000
  • Network Of Enlightened Women: $10,000
  • New Civil Liberties Alliance: $40,000
  • New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program: $50,000
  • Note In The Pocket: $5,000
  • Occoneechee Council­bsa: $15,000
  • Occoneechee Council­bsa: $40,000
  • Pacific Legal Foundation: $10,000
  • Pacific Research Institute: $­ 15,000
  • Parents For Educational Freedom In Nc: $50,000
  • Parents For Educational Freedom In Nc: $40,000
  • Performance Edge: $5,000
  • Philanthropy Roundtable: $75,000
  • Philharmonic Association Inc: $5,000
  • Preservation Nc: $10,000
  • Prevent Child Abuse Nc: $50,000
  • Property And Environment Research Center: $15,000
  • Public Interest Legal Foundation: $85,000
  • Raleigh Camerata: $4,000
  • Raleigh Charter High School: $25,000
  • Raleigh Little Theatre: $12,500
  • Raleigh Little Theatre: $100,000
  • Raleigh Rescue Mission: $50,000
  • Ravenscroft School: $25,000
  • Ravenscroft School: $125,000
  • Real Clear Foundation: $­ 50,000
  • Reality Ministries: $10,000
  • Reason Foundation Inc: $20,000
  • Rebuilding Together Of The Triangle: $10,000
  • Safe Families For Children Alliance: $15,000
  • Safe Haven For Cats: $5,000
  • Safechild: $10,000
  • Salvation Army Of Wake County: $15,000
  • Secu Family House At Unc Hospitals: $25,000
  • Shepherd's Table Soup Kitchen: $5,000
  • Speech First: $25,000
  • State Policy Network: $60,000
  • State Policy Network: $80,000
  • Stepup Ministry: $30,000
  • Student Free Press Association: $20,000
  • Tahoe Fund: $­ 5,000
  • Tax Foundation: $20,000
  • Tax Foundation: $25,000
  • Teneo: $10,000
  • The Educational Foundation: $133,333
  • The Fund For American Studies: $25,000
  • The Fund For American Studies: $10,000
  • The Fund For American Studies: $25,000
  • The Joel Fund: $5,000
  • Thoroughbred Charities Of America: $10,000
  • Transitions Lifecare: $15,000
  • Trosa: $25,000
  • Unc College Of Arts & Sciences: $80,000
  • Unc Health Foundation: $666,667
  • University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill­arts And Sciences Fnd: $500,000
  • Urban Ministries Of Wake County: $5,000
  • Virginia Episcopal School: $25,000
  • Wake Forest University: $25,000
  • Western Carolina University Foundation: $30,000
  • White Memorial Presbyterian Church: $25,000
  • Wingate University: $­ 10,000
  • Ymca Of The Triangle: $10,000
  • Young America's Foundation: $25,000
  • Young Voices: $5,000

2019[18]

2018

The John William Pope Foundation gave at least $5,826,817 to SPN, its members, and associate members in 2018. These groups, as well as other entities that received grants in 2018, are broken down as follows:[19]

2017

The John William Pope Foundation gave at least $7,112,383 to SPN, its members, and associate members in 2017. These groups, as well as other entities that received grants in 2017, are broken down as follows:[20]

2016

The John William Pope Foundation gave at least $7,138,300 to SPN, its members, and associate members in 2016. These groups, as well as other entities that received grants in 2016, are broken down as follows:[21]

2015

The John William Pope Foundation gave at least $6,668,394 to SPN, its members, and associate members in 2015. These groups, as well as other entities that received grants in 2015, are broken down as follows:[22]

2014

The John William Pope Foundation gave at least $6,668,394 to SPN, its members, and associate members in 2015. These groups, as well as other entities that received grants in 2015, are broken down as follows:[23]

Funding the Right Wing

Funding SPN and SPN State Think Tanks

TOTAL to SPN and SPN Members and Associate Members July 1, 1993 - June 30, 2013: $56,191,325.50, broken down as follows:[2][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]

Additional Conservative Think Tank Organizations

TOTAL to Additional Right Wing Think Tanks July 1, 1993 - June 30, 2013: $2,829,500, broken down as follows:[24][2][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]

Core Financials

2020[17]

  • Total Revenue: $13,295,527
  • Total Expenses: $13,546,572
  • Net Assets: $154,362,375

2019[18]

  • Total Revenue: $9,179,794
  • Total Expenses: $12,605,782
  • Net Assets: $184,496,300

2018[19]

  • Total Revenue: $7,827,537
  • Total Expenses: $12,027,743
  • Net Assets: $162,320,323

2017[20]

  • Total Revenue: $11,815,345
  • Total Expenses: $14,081,877
  • Net Assets: $165,699,433

2016[21]

  • Total Revenue: $5,238,985
  • Total Expenses: $12,476,797
  • Net Assets: $172,937,245

2015[22]

  • Total Revenue: $15,941,873
  • Total Expenses: $11,273,387
  • Net Assets: $168,268,759

2014 [40]

  • Total Revenue: $50,855,270
  • Total Expenses: $10,355,507
  • Net Assets: $168,268,759

2013 [40]

  • Total Revenue: $5,890,684
  • Total Expenses: $8,475,852
  • Net Assets: $127,934,445

2012 [40]

  • Total Revenue: $9,373,410
  • Total Expenses: $10,554,990
  • Net Assets: $130,228,075

2011 [40]

  • Total Revenue: $3,781,931
  • Total Expenses: $10,173,720
  • Net Assets: $131,409,655

Personnel

As of October 2021:[41]

Staff

  • John Hood, president
  • Sarah Glad, program officer
  • Lindsay Hollandsworth, Communications Director and Program Officer
  • Iris Turner, administrative director
  • Anna Martina, Blundell Fellow

Former Staff

  • Earle Pope
  • Clarice Smith, Program Manager

Board of Directors

Former Executive Management

  • John Hood, President of the Foundation
  • Joyce L. Pope, Vice President of the Foundation, Asst. Sec. and Treasurer of the Board
  • Lindsay Hollandsworth, Communications Director of the Foundation
  • David W. Riggs, former Vice President of Operations and Programs
  • David N. Bass, former Communications Director and Grants Officer

Board Members In Memoriam

  • the late Joyce W. Pope
  • the late John William Pope, Sr.
  • the late John William Pope, Jr.

Contact Information

Employment Identification Number (EIN): 58-1691765

John William Pope Foundation
Landmark Center One
4601 Six Forks Rd., Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27609

Phone: 919-861-6445
Fax: 919-790-9526
Email: info@jwpf.org

Website: https://jwpf.org/
Facebook: @PopeFoundation
Twitter: @PopeFoundation

Articles and Resources

IRS Form 990 Filings

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

Related SourceWatch

References

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