Donors Trust Inc

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Findings

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  THE 85 FUND reported a $92,000,000 cash grant to Donors Trust on Schedule I (tax year 2022-01-01), stated purpose: "General Support".

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  THE 85 FUND reported a $92,050,000 cash grant to Donors Trust on Schedule I (tax year 2023-01-01), stated purpose: "General Support".

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  Donors Trust Inc reported a $100,650,000 cash grant to Dechomai Asset Trust on Schedule I (tax year 2023-01-01), stated purpose: "for a donor-advised fund".

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  After the 2022 Bradley Impact Fund mega-grant of $27.1M, both Bradley and Conservative Partnership Institute zeroed out their AFL giving and were replaced by Donors Trust, whose grants to AFL scaled 127x from 2023 ($129,250) to 2024 ($3,191,074), a structural pivot from a named ideological foundation to a fully anonymizing donor-advised-fund sponsor

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  The 9-seat State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF, EIN 462604771) board functions as a verified interlock control surface for the anti-ESG state-treasurer apparatus: a single uncompensated director (Bridgett Wagner) concurrently held Heritage Foundation ED of the Feulner Institute ($273,375, tax year 2023), Foundation for Government Accountability Director, and SFOF Vice President in the same tax year, while ALEC's 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (Lisa B Nelson, CEO of the Jeffersonian Project, paid $507,409 via the parent ALEC in 2024) and the 1792 Exchange anti-ESG corporate-rating shop (Paul Fitzpatrick, President, $241,519 in 2024) sit beside her, and revenue tripled from $935K (tax year 2021) to $2.86M (tax year 2023) on a funding pyramid where $2.9M of identified IRS Schedule I dark-money grants (2021–2024) is dominated by Bradley Impact Fund ($1.16M), Consumers Research ($1.085M), and Donors Trust ($405K).

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  Documented IRS Schedule I pipeline Ziklag (USATransForm, EIN 824819179) to Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 821470217) to Compass Legal Group LLC to Valid Vote Inc (EagleAI host, EIN 883506185), with Donors Trust (EIN 522166327) confirmed as a parallel $310,000 disclosed donor to Valid Vote in tax year 2023

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  100% of IRS-990-documented grant inflows to the Federalist Society (EIN 363235550) over tax years 2012-2024 came through donor-advised-fund sponsors, and Leonard Leo's two apex DAF vehicles (Donors Trust + The 85 Fund) supplied 72.2% of that traceable funding ($26,137,045 of $36,204,475 total)
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  America First Legal lost Bradley Impact Fund and CPI as named grantors after the 2022 mega-grant, and was rebuilt on Donors Trust (a DAF) which scaled grants to AFL 24.7x from 2023 to 2024

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Appears in

• →America First Legal
• →Arctic Frost: The Jan 6 Subpoena Map
• →Cleta Mitchell's Compass and Election Integrity Orbit
• →Conservative Influence in America
• →The Caging Loop
• →The CPI Hub
• →The Dark Money Nexus: Leonard Leo's $1.6B Machine
• →The Seven Mountains Mandate
• →The Super-Treasurer and the FEC Chairman
• →Ziklag and the EagleAI Voter-Challenge Pipeline