Marble Freedom Trust

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Findings

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  31 nonprofits reported $24,095,666.00 in payments to Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak as one of their five highest-paid independent contractors on 57 Form 990 returns for tax years 2011 to 2024, led by FAIR LINES AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ($6,082,023.00), THE 85 FUND ($4,952,257.00) and AMERICANS FOR PUBLIC TRUST ($1,760,711.00); IRS e-file data retrieved October 14, 2026.

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  EIN 850784793 reported a $122,000,000 cash grant to Schwab Charitable Fund on Schedule I (tax year 2023-01-01), stated purpose: "To educate the public and support activities that highlight the relationship between structual limits on government power and the protection of our dignity and our freedoms. (DAF)".

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  EIN 850784793 reported a $157,650,000 cash grant to Schwab Charitable Fund on Schedule I (tax year 2024-01-01), stated purpose: "To support organizations that promote limited government, freedom, and human dignity (DAF).".

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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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  Between January 1, 2019 and September 30, 2026, 368 federal committees reported $31,286,471.76 in 3,744 itemized Schedule B disbursements to Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak (all 61 filed spellings; 90 memo entries of $1,221,957.46 excluded), led by NRSC ($6,260,985.09), NRCC ($5,431,731.88) and SLF PAC ($1,939,633.52); FEC processed data retrieved October 14, 2026.

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  Leonard Leo's two 501(c)(4) apex trusts (Marble Freedom Trust and Rule of Law Trust) supplied 100% of all IRS-disclosed grant inflows to The Concord Fund -- the renamed Judicial Crisis Network, EIN 202303252 -- across tax years 2021-2025, totaling $185,850,000 in six unique transfers, with Marble Freedom Trust's annual contribution accelerating 266% from $16,500,000 (TY2022) to $60,450,000 (TY2025)
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  Bradley Impact Fund disbursed $244.5M across 1,835 cash grants (2013-2024), concentrating 51.9% in its top 10 recipients and escalating Turning Point USA funding ~59x from $251K (2019) to $14.8M (2021).

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  Neil Corkery operates BELOW the 990 reporting threshold across the Leo network, bookkeeper at Marble Freedom Trust, CFO at CRC Advisors, former president of Catholic Association Foundation, former leader of The 85 Fund, and yet NEVER appears in our ein_990_officers table

  propublica.org
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  Marble Freedom Trust amended its trust agreement to eliminate donor Barre Seid's power to remove the trustee, Leonard Leo is now self-perpetuating with $1.6B and no donor oversight

  propublica.org
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  The National Christian Foundation cluster (NCF + Servant Foundation / The Signatry) is the dominant funding pipeline for Alliance Defending Freedom, routing $273.7M across 21 unique IRS 990 filings (2012-2023), supplying 79-100% of all 990-documented grant inflows to ADF in every tax year on record

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  Ten-firm Republican ad/mail/media-buy vendor oligopoly absorbs the conservative dark-money pipeline at the wholesale layer

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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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  Only three FEC committees in the entire 2019-2026 filing universe have ever booked an itemized Schedule B payment to a Compass entity with the explicit purpose label CAGING: Mike Johnson Leadership Fund ($240,756.89, 23 payments), Senate Conservatives Fund ($22,342.23, 11 payments), Tim Sheehy for Montana ($8,236.75, 2 payments); Johnson grew his caging spend 47% YoY (2024 $97,419.89 to 2025 $143,337.00) with the single largest line, $23,162.25, posted 2025-11-04, one day before the 2025 off-year elections

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  NCF + Servant Foundation (The Signatry) supply 79-100% of ADF's 990-documented grant inflows every year (2012-2023), totaling $273.7M across 21 unique filings

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Appears in

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