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Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation
From SourceWatch
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation is a conservative foundation and grant making body formed in 1970. [1] It is based in Grand Rapids, MI.[2]
Richard DeVos is co-founder of Amway and served as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee.[1]. Helen DeVos is a Christian Republican activist who gives via the foundation and individually to heavy hitters in the Republican Party like George W. Bush and Rick Santorum. They both focus their generosity on anti-union, pro-school voucher organizations and politicians that support that viewpoint.
Educational Giving
- The Scripps Research Institute (Florida)[3]
- The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation was in part responsible for funding the creation of the Sport Business Management Program at the University of Central Florida.[4]
Organizations funded
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
- Alliance Defense Fund
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
- Foundation for Traditional Values
- Free Congress Foundation
- Heritage Foundation
- Mackinac Center for Public Policy
- National Constitution Center[5]
