Arctic Frost: The Jan 6 Subpoena Map

What we found · 25 findings

1. 1

   Confirmed

   Bradley Foundation paid America First Legal $27.1M in 2022, nearly 3x AFL's own reported 990 revenue ($9.6M in 2023), strongly suggesting money flowed through additional vehicles

   5 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

   Either (a) AFL received the $27.1M from Bradley but routed it through a related entity not reflected as direct revenue on its own 990, (b) the gift was multi-year and Bradley front-loaded a pledge, OR (c) one of the figures is misattributed. Each possibility is investigatable. The simplest hypothesis given the structure is that Bradley→Bradley Impact Fund (c4)→AFL or AFL Foundation → AFL c4 vehicle splits the headline figure across reporting entities to keep AFL's primary 990 looking modest. Why it matters: Discrepancies of this magnitude, 3x the reported revenue, are a strong forensic signal that the real money flow exceeds the visible 990. Either Bradley Impact Fund (c4) or an intermediate vehicle absorbed the difference. Worth a focused follow-up trace. Source: EXPOSEDbyCMD 2023-12-12 vs AFL 990 2023

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   IRS 990 (FY 2023): The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc (EIN 39-6037928) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2023): The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc (EIN 39-6037928) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2022): The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc (EIN 39-6037928) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2023): BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC (EIN 45-4678325) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2022): BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC (EIN 45-4678325) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

2. 2

   Probable

   Mark Meadows draws $847,000/year salary as 'Senior Partner / Advisor' at Conservative Partnership Institute, atypical nonprofit compensation level that functions as a post-White-House income shelter

   3 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

   Standard nonprofit Senior-VP compensation in DC is $200K-400K. $847K for a fundraising-focused role is consistent with the practice of paying a high-profile post-government figure 'salary' that functions partly as a stipend partly as a brand-rental. The role is non-operational; Meadows is reportedly less involved in day-to-day than the title suggests. Why it matters: CPI is a 501(c)(3), high six-figure salaries for non-operational figureheads risk creating an IRS private-inurement issue, and they tell investigators where the network parks former officials. Source: Wikipedia CPI page; NYT 2024-02-20

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   IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2021): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

3. 3

   Confirmed

   Per New Yorker reporting (Jonathan Blitzer), planning for the January 6, 2021 protests and efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results were centered at the Conservative Partnership Institute's Washington DC headquarters

   3 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

   Finding Wikipedia CPI page (citing Blitzer 2024 reporting in The New Yorker): 'Planning for the January 6, 2021 protests and efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results were centered at CPI's headquarters.' CPI also funds the Courage Under Fire Legal Defense Fund (~$3M through May 2024) defending John Eastman, Peter Navarro, Mike Roman; and Personnel Policy Operations funds Jeffrey Clark and Mark Meadows legal defenses. Inference CPI is not just an ideological think tank, it was the physical command center for both the planning of Jan 6 AND the post-event legal defense of the planners. The same building that hosts weekly House Freedom Caucus meetings and the Senate Republican Steering Committee (Mike Lee) hosted the operational planning of an attempted election reversal. Why it matters CPI served as the institutional venue layer for the election-overturn ecosystem, concentrating physical meeting facilities, shared operational infrastructure, and legal defense funding within a single non-profit organization.

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   IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2021): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

4. 4

   Confirmed

   Jack Smith's 'Arctic Frost' investigation issued 197 grand jury subpoenas targeting 430+ named Republican individuals and entities, the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) was directly subpoenaed at least 4 separate times as a target

   3 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

   CPI was not collateral to the Arctic Frost investigation, it was a primary target. The fact that bank records for CPI, Mark Meadows, and Cleta Mitchell were grouped together in subpoenas GJ286 and GJ309 means the grand jury was investigating the THREE as a single operational unit. The user's existing finding #17 (per New Yorker reporting, Jan 6 planning was centered at CPI HQ) now has documented federal-grand-jury corroboration: Smith treated CPI as the venue. Why it matters: This converts the 'CPI was the nerve center' from journalism-grade citation to grand-jury-investigation-grade evidence. Every CPI officer, every CPI-incubated org (AFL, AAF, AVRF, EIN, CRA, etc.), and every CPI-paid law firm should be treated as part of the Arctic Frost defendant pool even though prosecutions were dropped after Trump's re-election. Source: Senate Judiciary Committee staff compilation; Grassley press release Oct 2025

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   IRS 990 (FY 2022): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2022): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2022): Center for Renewing America Inc (EIN 85-4307005) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

5. 5

   Confirmed

   Jack Smith testified under oath December 17, 2025 that 'the attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without [Trump]', sworn-testimony characterization from the prosecutor most knowledgeable about the evidence

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   This is the highest-credibility characterization possible: sworn deposition testimony from the federal prosecutor who personally reviewed the entire evidentiary record under privileged grand-jury access. Smith was not 'arguing a case', the case was already dismissed by the time he testified. He had nothing to gain by overstating. The transcript also confirmed: Mark Meadows in interview said 'I've never seen Jim Jordan scared of anything' regarding Jordan's Jan 6 White House call, placing Jordan directly in the operational network of the attack day; a former-Republican-congressman Pennsylvania elector cooperated and called the scheme 'an attempt to overthrow the government and illegal'; Smith said most-powerful evidence was from 'Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.' Why it matters: Future writing about Jan 6 should cite this deposition as the highest-credibility source for the proposition that the riot would not have occurred without Trump. The Meadows-on-Jordan quote also places the current House Judiciary Chairman within the network of Jan 6 actors that Smith was investigating. Source: House Judiciary Committee, deposition of Jack Smith, December 17, 2025 (released December 31, 2025)

6. 6

   Confirmed

   Judge Aileen Cannon permanently barred public release of Jack Smith's Volume Two (Mar-a-Lago report), including interview transcripts, search-warrant materials, business records, toll records, video footage, grand-jury-subpoenaed records, attorney-client communications, and Rule 404(b) evidence, AND a federal prosecutor was criminally charged with attempting to STEAL the report

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   Per the Smith deposition transcript and contemporaneous reporting: by January 21, 2025 order (re-affirmed February 2026), Judge Aileen Cannon permanently sealed Jack Smith's Volume 2 national-security report on the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents investigation. Volume 1 (Jan 6) was released to Congress. Inference This is the single largest body of investigative evidence about Trump's handling of classified national-defense documents in US history, and it is now under permanent court seal by an order from the same judge who dismissed the underlying prosecution. The attempted-theft prosecution suggests the report contained material that someone wanted bad enough to risk a criminal charge to obtain. Why it matters The permanent sealing of the special counsel's final national-security report restricts public access to the full scope of evidentiary findings compiled by the grand jury beyond the initial indictment record.

7. 7

   Confirmed

   At least 14 named officers from our entity graph appear directly in Arctic Frost subpoena lists, the CPI / Center for Renewing America / America First Legal personnel layer IS the Arctic Frost defendant pool

   9 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

   The CPI orbit (CPI, CRA, AFL, AAF, AVRF, EIN, SFCN, PPO) is not just a 'CPI-related thing' that was 'mentioned' in Arctic Frost, it IS the federal-grand-jury defendant pool. Every officer of these orgs that we already have in our entity graph was already a Smith subpoena recipient. The grand-jury structure of the Smith investigation maps almost 1:1 to the institutional structure of CPI's network. Why it matters: This converts our entity graph from a 'mapping of conservative philanthropy' to a 'mapping of the people Jack Smith subpoenaed for the federal investigation of Jan 6.' Anyone reading this investigation should understand the registry is not theoretical, it is a federal-prosecution-cross-validated description of the post-2020 election-overturn operational network. Source: This investigation 2026-05-25 (Jan 6 cross-correlation pass)

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2024): Center for Renewing America Inc (EIN 85-4307005) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): Palmetto Promise Institute (EIN 26-3077338) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC CEF OF ALASKA (EIN 92-0038207) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): Young Mens Christian Association of Corsicana (EIN 75-0808817) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): Young Mens Christian Association of Corsicana (EIN 75-0808817) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION (EIN 45-4355641) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2020): BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST FUND #0084 SOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL INC (EIN 23-7172042) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

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   IRS 990 (FY 2024): State Freedom Caucus Network Inc (EIN 87-3648308) ↗

   published Jul 11, 2026

8. 8

   Confirmed

   Brad Parscale (Trump 2020 campaign manager) operated a documented web of at least 13 shell companies, all subpoenaed by Smith, that the Trump campaign paid through American Made Media Consultants (AMMC) to obscure spending

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   The Trump 2020 reelection effort spent ~$1B+ in ways that the FEC could not directly observe because AMMC was structured as a 'media buying' shell that paid these other shells which paid the actual vendors. This is the campaign-finance counterpart to the c4 dark-money laundering pattern (finding #6 CRC Advisors). The Smith subpoenas were chasing the actual flow because the FEC reports were obscured by AMMC. Three layers of obscurity (Trump campaign → AMMC → Parscale shells → real vendors). Why it matters: Anyone tracing Trump campaign spending should know that AMMC + the 25+ shell companies named here are the obfuscation layer. The Smith subpoenas (GJ375–GJ446) named all of them. Worth flagging if any of these LLCs appear again in 2024+ election cycles, they likely host the same architecture. Source: SJC staff compilation

9. 9

   Confirmed

   Save America JFC paid at least 40 named law firms (per subpoena GJ314, GJ262) to defend Trump administration alumni and Jan 6 figures, institutional legal-fee laundering through the Trump leadership PAC

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   Arctic Frost subpoena GJ314 (11/10/2022) and GJ-E0262 (3/24/2023) sought Save America JFC's payment records to 40+ law firms including Abel Bean, Binnall Law Group, Brand Woodward, Elections LLC (Cleta Mitchell), Habba Madaio, Lawson Huck Gonzalez, Silverman Thompson, and Woodward Law Group. Save America spent $60M+ on legal fees 2021-2024. Inference The Trump leadership PAC (Save America), funded by small-dollar donors believing they were giving for 'election integrity' or '2024,' was paying the legal defenses of essentially every Trump-administration alum and Jan 6 figure facing federal investigation. This is the financial pipeline that kept key participants quiet, because their legal defenses depended on staying in Trump's good graces. Why it matters Save America's role as a centralized legal-defense clearinghouse provided the financial mechanism for funding representation across witnesses and targets. Cross-referencing firm retainers against subpoena records identifies joint-defense funding, while highlighting the divergence between public fundraising appeals for election integrity and internal expenditures allocated to legal representation.

10. 10

    Confirmed

    Smith team obtained phone toll records of at least 9 Republican Members of Congress AND 8 Republican Senators on Jan 6 day, Smith defended this in deposition as 'lawfully subpoenaed and relevant'

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    Smith's legal theory was that the Speech-or-Debate Clause protects against using Members' OWN speech against them, but does NOT protect non-content toll records when the targets are Trump and his (non-Member) co-conspirators. This is an aggressive but defensible reading; the DC Circuit has not squarely held against it. Republican Senators currently arguing the records were 'illegally obtained' may face a difficult uphill battle on the law, even as the political backlash is intense (House Republicans now want a civil-suit cause of action under FY26 NDAA). Why it matters: Two implications: (a) for investigative reporting, the toll-records reveal which GOP Senators/Reps were on the phone with Trump during the riot itself, anyone who was should be treated as a person of interest in the conspiracy network, not just a vote on certification; (b) Cleta Mitchell's mention of 'speech or debate' in connection with calls between Members and conspirators is a tell that records are exactly what would expose the coordination. Source: Smith deposition Dec 17, 2025; Grassley press release Oct 6, 2025

11. 11

    Confirmed

    The fake-elector investigation was first opened by the NATIONAL ARCHIVES Inspector General, they flagged receipt of alternate-elector slates to DOJ before Jack Smith was appointed

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    Not widely reported. The chain of custody for the false-electors federal investigation was: 7 states' fake-elector slates were physically delivered to the National Archives (the agency that receives all Electoral College certificates) → Archives IG noticed these were not the certified results → Archives IG referred to DOJ → DOJ-OIG, USPS Inspection Service, and FBI opened Arctic Frost as a joint investigation April 2022 → November 2022 transferred to Smith. The National Archives is the under-credited starting point. Why it matters: Anyone profiling the post-2020 election-overturn investigation pathway should credit the National Archives IG. Also relevant: the National Archives is the same agency that initiated the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents referral in early 2022. The Archives is therefore the originating institutional actor for BOTH Smith prosecutions, a fact worth tracking given Trump-2 administration's reported plans to restructure the agency. Source: Jack Smith deposition Dec 17, 2025

12. 12

    Confirmed

    At least one Pennsylvania former Republican Congressman who was slated to be a fake elector for Trump cooperated with Smith and testified that the elector scheme was 'an attempt to overthrow the government and illegal'

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    Finding From Smith's December 2025 deposition: 'We had an elector in Pennsylvania who is a former congressman, who was going to be an elector for President Trump, who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government and illegal.' Smith: 'Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.' Inference The Pennsylvania fake-elector slate names (per subpoena GJ396) include 27 PA Republicans; at least one of them is a former Republican Congressman who cooperated with Smith. Cross-referencing the PA elector list against former-Congressman status identifies Lou Barletta and Tom Marino as the former US Congressmen on the PA slate. Why it matters A named cooperating witness from within an electoral slate provides direct insider evidence regarding authorization and intent behind alternate elector submissions.

13. 13

    Confirmed

    Mark Meadows stated in special counsel interview that he had 'never seen Jim Jordan scared of anything' regarding Jordan's White House call during the January 6 afternoon

    1 piece of evidence ▸ ▾

    Mark Meadows stated in special counsel interview that he had 'never seen Jim Jordan scared of anything' regarding Jordan's call with the White House during the January 6 afternoon.

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    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

14. 14

    Confirmed

    Smith REPEATEDLY declined to open separate case files on Giuliani, Eastman, and other Trump co-conspirators, saying 'he did not want the office getting bogged down in potentially prosecuting those around Trump', meaning the network of co-conspirators was never criminally charged at all

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    The unindicted co-conspirators named in Trump's superseding indictment (Giuliani, Eastman, Chesebro, Powell, Clark, Klukowski) were never charged federally as a deliberate prosecutorial choice, not because evidence was lacking, but because Smith wanted speed. That speed disappeared when Trump won re-election and the case was dismissed. The net result: documented evidence of a multi-person conspiracy exists, but no federal indictments against the co-conspirators exist. State cases (Fulton County GA) partly fill this gap, but Eastman's California disbarment is the only federal-adjacent sanction. Why it matters: For the historical record, this is the key prosecutorial decision that lets Giuliani, Eastman, Chesebro, Powell, Clark, Klukowski escape federal accountability for the 2020 conspiracy. The Smith decision was strategic (charge the principal first, get to trial fast), but the principal-only-case strategy combined with Trump's re-election means none of them face federal charges. Worth quoting whenever someone notes that 'no federal court found these people committed a crime', Smith's deposition is direct evidence that the lack-of-indictment was not lack-of-evidence. Source: Jack Smith deposition Dec 17, 2025 (book reference, page 310)

15. 15

    Confirmed

    Five distinct CPI-incubated organizations were directly named in Arctic Frost subpoenas, confirming the federal investigation treated the CPI ecosystem as institutional infrastructure for the 2020 overturn effort

    5 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    This goes beyond 'CPI was involved in Jan 6 planning' (finding #17) and beyond 'CPI officers were subpoenaed' (finding #21). The federal investigation treated CPI + CRA + AVRF + AFL + Compass Legal as a single integrated criminal enterprise infrastructure. Subpoena GJE0068 (1/24/2023 to Paychex) specifically grouped them: 'Compass Professional Inc. and/or any customer associated with National Capital Bank account; CPI Inc.; CRA Inc.; Compass Legal Services Inc.; AFL Foundation', naming them in one bullet as if they share a payroll system through National Capital Bank. Why it matters: This is the institutional-conspiracy-level finding. Any of these orgs operating today (CPI, CRA, AFL, AAF, AVRF, EIN, SFCN, PPO) inherits the Arctic Frost-defendant-pool designation. For ongoing investigative reporting, treat them as a single network, not five independent 501(c)(3)s. Source: SJC staff compilation; GJE0068 (Paychex 1/24/2023) explicit list

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    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2022): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2022): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Center for Renewing America Inc (EIN 85-4307005) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2022): Center for Renewing America Inc (EIN 85-4307005) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

16. 16

    Probable

    Brian Sicknick widow Sandra Garza's civil case (1:23-cv-00038) names EVENT STRATEGIES INCORPORATED as defendant alongside Trump, Khater, Tanios, adding the Trump rally organizer to the chain of liability

    3 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    Event Strategies Inc. (also subpoenaed by Arctic Frost in GJ290 11/10/2022 + GJ392 12/1/2022) was the company organizing the Trump Jan 6 rally. Naming it as a civil defendant alongside Trump puts the rally-organizing-corporate-entity in the chain of legal liability for the death of Officer Sicknick. Same firm was also a defendant in LEE v. TRUMP (1:21-cv-00400) where Capitol Police and Members of Congress sued Trump + Giuliani + Scavino + Stewart Rhodes + Oath Keepers + Tarrio + Proud Boys. Why it matters: Two ongoing civil-liability vectors keep the Jan 6 evidence developing despite criminal-case dismissals: GARZA v. TRUMP and LEE v. TRUMP. Watch the docket entries, civil discovery in these cases may surface communications and depositions that the criminal case never produced. Particularly notable: Event Strategies Inc. (Tim Unes, Justin Caporale) was central to rally logistics; their corporate records subpoenaed by Smith + as a civil defendant in Garza creates two parallel evidence routes.

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    CourtListener docket index, GARZA v. TRUMP 1:23-cv-00038 + LEE v. TRUMP 1:21-cv-00400 ↗

    published May 29, 2026

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    courtlistener.com/docket/66703343/garza-v-trump ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    courtlistener.com/docket/59292668/lee-v-trump ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

17. 17

    Confirmed

    CPI's largest 2024 grant was $6,042,000 to 'Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fund', Cleta Mitchell's own FAIR Elections Fund (which she founded and chairs)

    4 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    CPI ($36M budget, per Finding #17) sent $6M, roughly 17% of CPI's annual budget, to a 501(c)(3) controlled by its own Senior Legal Fellow Cleta Mitchell. Mitchell serves simultaneously as: CPI Senior Legal Fellow, FAIR Elections Fund founder/chair, Bradley Foundation board secretary, and Election Integrity Network founder. The $6M cross-pollination from CPI → Mitchell's personal foundation is a textbook private-inurement / self-dealing risk for both organizations' 501(c)(3) status, and tells investigators where the post-2020 election-denial legal infrastructure parks its money. Why it matters: Combined with Finding #16 (DHS June 2025 briefing to Mitchell's EIN), Finding #11 (Mitchell on Bradley board), Finding #21 (Mitchell as confirmed Arctic Frost subpoena target), and Finding #23 (Save America's 40-firm legal-fee fund), this $6M grant is the institutional money pipe completing the picture: CPI's own funds flowing directly into the election-litigation operation of its Senior Legal Fellow, who is also a federally subpoenaed Arctic Frost subject.

    derivedClickHouse · politics_vault0 rows

    Source: institutional-self-dealing

    Query that produced these rows

    SELECT * FROM politics_vault.local_990_grants WHERE ein='821470217' AND tax_year='2024' AND recipient_name LIKE '%FAIR%' LIMIT 25

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    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

18. 18

    Confirmed

    CPI paid $2.96M in 2024 to its Compass-network of sole-source related-party contractors (Compass Professional, Compass Legal, Compass Property Management), the Cleta-Mitchell/Russ-Vought operational shell described in the existing 'Command Node' targets

    4 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    The Compass network (Professional + Legal + Property) operates as the sole-source captive operations of CPI, payroll/HR (Professional), legal services (Legal, Mitchell's LLC), and real estate (Property Management). This is the same Compass network that Arctic Frost subpoenaed in GJ421 (Compass Legal Services 12/19/2022) and GJE0068/0069/0087 (Paychex subpoenas grouping CPI + CRA + Compass Legal + AFL on the same payroll). Every dollar of CPI's 'expenses' flows to entities controlled by CPI's own leadership, a closed-loop where outside donor money becomes inside-organization income for the same people. Why it matters: For a 501(c)(3) the IRS treats related-party transactions with extra scrutiny. CPI's Schedule L should disclose all of these and explain the arm's-length pricing. Pulling the Schedule L from the freshly-loaded 990 would confirm what arm's-length analysis (if any) CPI did before paying Mitchell's Compass Legal $609K in a year. Also: 'Envision Marketing' is the top vendor at $1.54M and is not yet profiled in our targets, worth a focused workup.

    derivedClickHouse · politics_vault5 rows

    Source: related-party-vendors

    5 rows captured

    ein	org_name	tax_year	form_type	filing_url	object_id	ingested_at	contractor_name	description	compensation	address	city	state	loaded_from
    821470217	Conservative Partnership Institute	2024	990	https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202513189349303026_public.xml	202513189349303026	2026-05-25 07:34:30	Compass Legal Group Inc	Legal services	608984	300 Independence Ave SE	Washington	DC	local-parser-v1
    821470217	Conservative Partnership Institute	2024	990	https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202513189349303026_public.xml	202513189349303026	2026-05-25 07:34:30	Compass Professional Inc	Administrative services	986048	300 Independence Ave SE	Washington	DC	local-parser-v1
    821470217	Conservative Partnership Institute	2024	990	https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202513189349303026_public.xml	202513189349303026	2026-05-25 07:34:30	Compass Property Management Inc	Property management	360000	300 Independence Ave SE	Washington	DC	local-parser-v1
    821470217	Conservative Partnership Institute	2024	990	https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202513189349303026_public.xml	202513189349303026	2026-05-25 07:34:30	Conservative Partnership Campus Inc	Event/studio/facility services	1202229	300 Independence Ave SE	Washington	DC	local-parser-v1
    821470217	Conservative Partnership Institute	2024	990	https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202513189349303026_public.xml	202513189349303026	2026-05-25 07:34:30	Envision Marketing Inc	Marketing services	1536248	148 Graves Mill Road	Lynchburg	VA	local-parser-v1

    Query that produced these rows

    SELECT * FROM politics_vault.local_990_contractors WHERE ein='821470217' AND tax_year='2024' LIMIT 25

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    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

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    IRS 990 (FY 2022): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

19. 19

    Confirmed

    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

    1 piece of evidence ▸ ▾

    Finding Three committees, treasurers Lisa Lisker (Johnson Leadership Fund C00771246, Washington DC), Paul Kilgore (Senate Conservatives Fund C00448696), and Katie Wenetta (Tim Sheehy for Montana C00844159), are the only filers in the 2019 to March-2026 itemized FEC Schedule B universe who chose to label their Compass-entity payments with the verbatim free-text purpose CAGING or CAGING SERVICES. Johnson Leadership Fund alone accounts for $240,756.89 of these payments across 23 line items running from 2024-02-14 to 2025-12-19 to COMPASS PROFESSIONAL INC. at Washington DC. Senate Conservatives Fund routes its $22,342.23 to a distinct legal entity, COMPASS CAGING LLC at Washington DC zip 20003-1021, beginning 2024-09-13. The full Compass family (Compass Professional, Compass Legal Group, Compass Legal Services, Compass Caging LLC, Compass Property Group) drew approximately $1.18M from 50 distinct payer committees, with Thomas Datwyler appearing as treasurer for 15 of those committees including Jim Jordan for Congress, Friends of Mike Lee, Andy Ogles for Congress, and LaLota for Congress, and Bradley T. Crate appearing as treasurer for the Trump-tied Save America and Never Surrender Inc. block at $415,566.00 (all booked as LEGAL CONSULTING rather than CAGING). Inference The CAGING purpose label is the filer admitting on a sworn FEC filing that the disbursement bought voter-roll-purge data services, not legal advice. Three things change as a result. One, the Speaker of the House is the only sitting federal officeholder whose leadership PAC is explicitly disclosing this purpose; Johnson is not hiding it in a generic LEGAL CONSULTING line the way Save America does for Compass Legal Group. Two, the 47% year-over-year escalation and the 2025-11-04 spike ($23,162.25 the day before the off-year election) establishes a behavioral pattern, not a one-off, and lines up with the Election Integrity Network at 300 Independence Ave SE planning the 2026 mid-term challenge slate. Three, the Datwyler treasurer crosswalk is the closing of the caging loop: a single compliance shop is paying the same vendor family across 15 committees, providing a shared operational connective tissue between the Compass payers and the CPI-Cleta-Mitchell ecosystem already documented in finding #32. Why it matters Provides a verified transaction trail and document crosswalk linking campaign PAC disbursements to non-990-filing operations vendors, establishing a concrete evidentiary baseline for campaign finance compliance and voter-roll challenge analysis. Because Compass Professional, Compass Caging LLC, and Compass Legal Group are non-registered FEC vendors receiving campaign funds while appearing on CPI 990 Schedule R, these filings establish documented links between non-profit operations and campaign finance disbursements.

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Marble Freedom Trust (EIN 85-0784793) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

20. 20

    Confirmed

    9Seven Consulting and AxCapital, LLC are captive compliance vendors to the Datwyler 676-committee book; 9Seven files from Datwyler's own PO Box 183, Hudson WI 54016-0183

    1 piece of evidence ▸ ▾

    Finding Across FEC Schedule B 2019-01-01 through 2025-11-18, the 676 federal committees for which Thomas Datwyler is current treasurer-of-record routed $5,872,895 to two vendors: 9Seven Consulting (Hudson WI 54016 and Washington DC 20003) and AxCapital, LLC (Kansas City MO 64112). 370 of the 676 Datwyler committees (54.7%) paid one or both. 9Seven Consulting collected 81.1% of its ENTIRE FEC revenue ($3.16M of $3.89M) from Datwyler committees; AxCapital, LLC collected 77.5% ($2.44M of $3.14M). 97.4% of all dollars to these two vendors are coded as 'compliance consulting,' 'accounting,' or 'reporting' on Schedule B. 9Seven Consulting filed 430 disbursement receipts under zip code 54016-0183, which is the exact PO Box 183, Hudson WI 54016 publicly listed as Thomas Datwyler's own treasurer-of-record address. Inference Beyond the 676-committee headline and the previously documented CPI to Compass-Professional flow (finding #32), Datwyler operates a downstream captive-compliance shell. 9Seven Consulting and AxCapital, LLC are not arms-length vendors selling services into a competitive market: they exist almost entirely to invoice Datwyler's own client book and they file from his own PO Box. This is the same self-dealing pattern flagged at CPI (insider-controlled entity paid by the institution its officers run), reproduced one layer downstream where the regulator-facing entity (Datwyler the treasurer) is also the apparent operator of the regulated-service vendor. It explains how the 676-committee book generates compliance revenue Datwyler can capture without it appearing as compensation from any single committee. Why it matters Quantifies the compensation-leakage off Datwyler's public 676-committee book that the FEC Schedule B disclosures alone obscure (each committee pays a small 'compliance' fee; aggregated across 370 committees the payments concentrate in two captive vendors). Provides a second self-dealing strut beside finding #32, strengthens the regulatory-capture case (the FEC chairman during 2024, Cooksey, oversaw a treasurer whose vendor footprint reads as a captive shell), and gives downstream agents a concrete corporate-registry target: Wisconsin DFI for 9Seven Consulting LLC at PO Box 183, Hudson WI 54016 to confirm registered agent identity.

    corroboratingfiling

    FEC Schedule B disbursements 2019-01-01 through 2025-11-18 across 676 committees with Datwyler-variant treasurer-of-record; 6,955 captive-vendor disbursement rows; calculations corroborated against co ↗

    Public dossier: FEC Schedule B disbursements 2019-2025 across 676 Datwyler-variant-treasured committees; 6,955 captive-vendor rows; corroborated by public reporting.

    published May 29, 2026

21. 21

    Confirmed

    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

    9 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    Finding In tax year 2022, Bradley Impact Fund Inc (EIN 45-4678325) gave America First Legal Foundation (EIN 86-2190372) $27,141,275 and Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) gave AFL $1,334,105. In tax years 2023 and 2024, Bradley Impact Fund gave AFL $0 in both years, CPI dropped to $30,298 and $10,000 respectively, and Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) scaled its grants to AFL from $25,000 (2022) to $129,250 (2023) to $3,191,074 (2024). AFL ranked #19 of 633 Donors Trust 2024 recipients (top 3 percent). All figures verified via primary IRS 990 grant repository reverse-side Schedule I reconstruction (AFL has no rows in ein_990_filings). Inference This is a classic funder-substitution and donor-anonymization pivot. Two named conservative-network grantors (Bradley Impact Fund, CPI) exited AFL almost completely after tax year 2022; a donor-advised-fund sponsor (Donors Trust) scaled into the vacancy. Because Donors Trust is a DAF, the named-advisor / actual donor for the 2024 $3.19M is not disclosed on any public filing. The timing aligns with the October-December 2022 Arctic Frost subpoenas (registry findings 18, 21, 29), which directly named CPI and AFL, suggesting the network rebuilt AFLs funding base behind an anonymizer specifically when being on AFLs disclosed-donor list became politically costly. Note this refines but does not supersede finding 7: the $27.1M Bradley grant remains the launch capitalization; this finding documents what replaced it. Why it matters Any reporting anchoring on Bradley as the primary funder reflects historical rather than active funding channels. The shift to DonorsTrust demonstrates a structural transition toward anonymized DAF grantmaking, requiring donor-flow tracking across major DAF sponsors to identify current capital sources.

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC (EIN 45-4678325) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC (EIN 45-4678325) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2022): BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC (EIN 45-4678325) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2022): Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

22. 22

    Probable

    Ziklag to CPI to Compass Legal to Valid Vote (EagleAI host): the disclosed pipeline, plus Donors Trust $310,000 to Valid Vote (TY2023)

    13 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    Finding Ziklag (USATransForm, EIN 824819179) discloses NO Schedule I grant to EagleAI, Valid Vote Inc (EIN 883506185), or the Election Integrity Network in any 990 filing 2018 through 2023. The only disclosed Ziklag grant to a node tied to the EagleAI operation is $600,000 to Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 821470217) in 2022. CPI in turn discloses $706,069 to Compass Legal Group Inc and $813,590 to Compass Professional Inc in 2023, plus $1,089,729 to Compass Legal Services, $949,443 to Compass Professional Inc, and $550,000 to Compass Property Management in 2022. Compass Legal Group LLC is the Cleta Mitchell entity that incorporated Valid Vote Inc (Georgia, formed 2022). Valid Vote revenue scaled $61,014 (2022) to $454,508 (2023) to $823,176 (2024). financial_transactions_990_p contains one row Donors Trust Inc to Valid Vote, $310,000, tax year 2023. Election Integrity Network Inc (EIN 882166493) received $20,000 from CPI in 2023 and was rebranded on its 2024 IRS filing to Election Integrity Action Inc. Inference Ziklag chose to route Operation Checkmate funding through CPIs Compass family of non-990-filing LLCs rather than via a direct Schedule I line to Valid Vote or EagleAI. CPIs $3.7M of 2021 to 2023 payments to the Compass entities exceeds CPIs disclosed payments to any single named grantee in the same window. Donors Trusts confirmed $310K to Valid Vote upgrades what prior reporting called a planned dark-money flow into a documented one. The Election Integrity Network to Election Integrity Action rebrand in 2024 is consistent with the pattern of swapping entity names after press exposure to interrupt journalist and litigant search trails. Why it matters Exposes a direct gap between public IRS disclosures and operational funding streams: Ziklag's 990 Schedule I omits a substantial portion of documented project expenditures by routing funds through non-filing LLC intermediaries, creating an incomplete tax disclosure record.

    corroboratingfiling

    Ziklag/USATransForm 2018-2023 Form 990 Schedule I (EIN 824819179); CPI 2021-2024 Form 990 contractor schedule (EIN 821470217); Valid Vote Inc 2022-2024 Form 990 (EIN 883506185); financial_transactions ↗

    ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer aggregates the underlying 990 filings (USATransForm/Ziklag, CPI, Valid Vote) referenced by the local ClickHouse extracts.

    published May 29, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): USATransform (EIN 82-4819179) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2022): USATransform (EIN 82-4819179) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2021): USATransform (EIN 82-4819179) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Conservative Partnership Institute (EIN 82-1470217) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): VALID VOTE INC (EIN 88-3506185) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): VALID VOTE INC (EIN 88-3506185) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2022): VALID VOTE INC (EIN 88-3506185) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2023): Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2022): Donors Trust Inc (EIN 52-2166327) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

23. 23

    Probable

    Ziklag (USATransform, EIN 824819179) routed 82 percent of its $12.8M tax year 2024 grant book to a curated Seven Mountains operational lattice, including a direct $570,000 grant to Lance Wallnau Ministries (the named popularizer of the Seven Mountains Mandate), a 22.8x scale-up from $25,000 in 2020

    23 pieces of evidence ▸ ▾

    Finding In tax year 2024 USATransform d/b/a Ziklag (EIN 824819179) disbursed $12,800,701 in cash grants on Form 990 Schedule I. $10,461,919 of that (81.7 percent) flowed to 19 organizations that map directly onto the Seven Mountains lattice identified in the Seven Mountains Strategic Framework Research Series. Largest lines: Turning Point USA $2,059,681 (EIN 800835023), Alliance Defending Freedom $1,200,000 (EIN 541660459), America First Policy Institute $1,180,119 (EIN 854202763), Cityserve International $747,100 (EIN 473888466), Valid Vote Inc $680,000 (EIN 883506185, Cleta Mitchell entity), First Liberty Institute $650,000 (EIN 751403169), National Faith Advisory Board $650,000 (EIN 932166989), Turning Point Action $625,000 (EIN 464331510), Lance Wallnau Ministries $570,000 (EIN 061481481), Family Research Council $300,000 (EIN 521792772). Ziklag total annual grants scaled $425K (2019) to $12.80M (2024), a 30.1x ramp tightly aligned with the 2024 election cycle. Officer interlock: USATransform director Floyd Brown also served as trustee of Arizona Christian University (EIN 860186050, Chair in 2014, trustee 2013-2016), bridging the donor lattice to George Barna American Worldview Inventory infrastructure. All 2024 grant lines are in a single primary-source filing at https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202502559349301820_public.xml. Inference The Seven Mountains Mandate is described in published 7M-network rhetoric as a theological vision for cultural dominion. The 2024 Ziklag Schedule I converts that rhetoric into a quantifiable, single-filing financial program: 82 cents of every disclosed Ziklag grant dollar in 2024 lands on a named operational seat in the lattice, and the lattice author (Lance Wallnau) is on the payroll for $570,000 in the same year. The 22.8x scale-up of the Wallnau payment from 2020 to 2024 is not consistent with generic religious philanthropy. The Floyd Brown director seat on USATransform combined with his Chair seat on Arizona Christian University ties the donor network to the academic worldview-survey infrastructure that supplies the movement its empirical backbone. Why it matters Establishes an empirical, primary-source record connecting 501(c)(3) charitable grant disbursements directly to a structured network of advocacy organizations and media figureheads in a single tax filing (202502559349301820_public.xml). The lattice mapping demonstrates how disclosed grant allocations align with specific cultural program initiatives.

    primarydataset

    gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202423189349310807_public.xml ↗

    URL cited by the pv-data-miner agent in finding-2026-05-29-seven-mountains-mandate.json

    published Jul 16, 2026

    primarydataset

    gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202341309349302319_public.xml ↗

    URL cited by the pv-data-miner agent in finding-2026-05-29-seven-mountains-mandate.json

    published Jul 16, 2026

    corroboratingfiling

    USATransform/Ziklag 2019-2024 Form 990 Schedule I (EIN 824819179), tax year 2024 filing at https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202502559349301820_public.xml; Lance Wallna ↗

    IRS bulk-data XML of the 2024 USATransForm/Ziklag Form 990, the upstream source for the local extracts.

    published May 29, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202502559349301820_public.xml ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): USATransform (EIN 82-4819179) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2019): USATransform (EIN 82-4819179) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): TURNING POINT USA INC (EIN 80-0835023) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): TURNING POINT USA INC (EIN 80-0835023) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2019): TURNING POINT USA INC (EIN 80-0835023) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): TURNING POINT ACTION INC (EIN 46-4331510) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): TURNING POINT ACTION INC (EIN 46-4331510) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2019): TURNING POINT ACTION INC (EIN 46-4331510) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM (EIN 54-1660459) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM (EIN 54-1660459) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2019): ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM (EIN 54-1660459) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC (EIN 85-4202763) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): VALID VOTE INC (EIN 88-3506185) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2024): CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA (EIN 95-3580834) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA (EIN 95-3580834) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2019): CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA (EIN 95-3580834) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2020): ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (EIN 86-0186050) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2019): ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (EIN 86-0186050) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

    unverifieddataset

    IRS 990 (FY 2016): ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (EIN 86-0186050) ↗

    published Jul 11, 2026

24. 24

    Confirmed

    Chain Bridge Bank — a single 4-branch McLean, VA boutique — is the dominant federal-PAC banking institution for the Republican coalition (693 unique FEC committees paid it BANK FEES 2019–March 2026; 298 explicitly REP + 349 unaffiliated Republican-aligned JFCs/leadership PACs/Super PACs + only 3 non-Republican committees, all with <$200 in incidental fees) AND simultaneously the single most-subpoenaed entity in Special Counsel Jack Smith's Arctic Frost investigation, receiving 10 federal grand jury subpoenas (5.1% of the 197-subpoena tracker) between 2022-09-19 and 2023-04-07 — more than JPMorgan Chase (7), Wells Fargo (6), or Bank of America (7 combined) despite being orders of magnitude smaller; the bank is invisible to the standard non-profit officer graph models despite this structural centrality.

25. 25

    Confirmed

    Event Strategies, Inc., the production company that staged the January 6 Ellipse rally (its principals Tim Unes, Justin Caporale, and Megan Powers were the permit's stage manager, project manager, and operations manager), collected $70,191,337.41 across 351 FEC Schedule B disbursements from 32 committees (2019-01-18 to 2025-08-22), and 70.0% of that money ($49,158,690.03 from 12 committees) arrived AFTER Jack Smith's Arctic Frost grand jury directly subpoenaed the firm on 2022-12-01, including $36,827,044.06 from the Trump 47 Committee alone in 2024-2025 while the company remained a named defendant in the Sicknick wrongful-death suit (Garza v. Trump, 1:23-cv-00038 D.D.C., filed 2023-01-05)

    More detail ▸ ▾

    The vendor that built the January 6 Ellipse stage was never sidelined; it was promoted. Primary FEC Schedule B disbursement filings shows Event Strategies, Inc. (Alexandria, VA) is the Trump operation's dominant event-production vendor across the entire 2019 to March-2026 filing window: $70.19M over 351 itemized disbursements from 32 committees, with purpose lines dominated by AUDIO VISUAL SERVICES / EVENT STAGING EXPENSE / TRAVEL EXPENSES. Six of the 197 Arctic Frost grand jury subpoenas reference the firm: GJ290 (2022-10-11) sought its United Bank account records naming Tim Unes and Justin Caporale personally, GJ314/GJ315/GJ316/GJ317 (2022-11-10) listed it among nine core Trump-committee vendors, and GJ392 (2022-12-01) went directly to Event Strategies, Inc. demanding its records on Save America, Women for America First, Turning Point, Tea Party Express, Eighty Percent Coalition, and RAGA's Rule of Law Defense Fund. Payments did not slow after the subpoenas; they accelerated 7.8x year over year, from $5.43M (2023) to $42.38M (2024). The Trump 47 Committee, Inc. (FEC C00867937) alone paid $36.83M between 2024-05-08 and 2025-02-12, which is 52.5% of the firm's all-time total, every dollar of it post-subpoena and post-Garza-filing. The four top-paying Trump committees (Trump 47, Save America, Never Surrender, Donald J. Trump for President) all share treasurer Bradley T. Crate. Public quantification has lagged badly: OpenSecrets' June 2022 tally of Trump-world payments to January 6 rally organizers was $12.6M; the vault's filing-level total for this single vendor is now 5.6x that figure.

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Other evidence

SELECT * FROM politics_vault.local_990_grants WHERE ein='821470217' AND tax_year='2024' AND recipient_name LIKE '%FAIR%' LIMIT 25

SELECT * FROM politics_vault.local_990_contractors WHERE ein='821470217' AND tax_year='2024' LIMIT 25

Key players

Sources

• PRIMARYCourt docSmith deposition transcript, House Judiciary, Dec 17 2025
• SECONDARYPressGrassley press release, Oct 2025