Seminar Network Trust
The Seminar Network Trust, whose tax ID was formerly used by the Koch network's 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."[1]
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Funding
The Seminar Network 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 know funders:
- Deason Foundation: $1,102,134 (2017-2018)[2]
- DonorsTrust: $1,200,000 (2017-2018)[3][4]
- Luddy Charitable Foundation: $250,000 (2017)[5]
- Renker Family Foundation: $100,000 (2017)[6]
Core Financials
2018[1]
- 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[7]
- 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 December 2018:[1]
Staff
- Brian Menkes, President/Secretary
- Robert Heaton, Treasurer
Board of Directors
Contact Information
Seminar Network Trust
1320 N. Courthouse Road, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: 571-290-6811
Articles and Resources
IRS Form 990 Filings
2018
2017
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Seminar Network Trust, 2018 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Deason Foundation,Profile, Grantmakers, accessed March 30, 2020.
- ↑ David Armiak, DonorsTrust Bankrolled Right-Wing Judicial Appointments, Trump’s Acting AG, and Lobbying Front Groups in 2017, ExposedbyCMD, February 19, 2019.
- ↑ David Armiak, DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018, ExposedbyCMD, December 23, 2019.
- ↑ Luddy Charitable Foundation,[on file with CMD], organizational filing.
- ↑ Renker Family Foundation,Profile, Grantmakers, accessed March 30, 2020.
- ↑ Seminar Network Trust, 2017 IRS Form 990, organizational tax filing, June 14, 2018.
