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| '''Donors Capital Fund''' ('''DCF''') is a nonprofit ] ] charity that focuses donations on politically conservative causes and organizations. Donors Capital Fund is associated with ], another conservative-focused donor advised fund. | |||
| ==Background== | |||
| According to Donors Capital Fund, it was "formed to safeguard the charitable intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise."<ref name=overview>{{cite web |title=What is Donors Capital Fund? |url=http://www.donorscapitalfund.org/AboutUs/Overview.aspx |publisher=Donors Capital Fund |accessdate=February 21, 2015}}</ref> | |||
| Donors Capital Fund is associated with ]. Donors Trust refers clients to Donors Capital Fund if the client plans to maintain a balance of $1 million or more.<ref name="MJ">{{cite news|last=Kroll|first=Andy|title=Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement|url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos|newspaper=Mother Jones|date=February 5, 2013}}</ref><ref name=brulle>{{cite news |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/robert-brulle-inside-the-climate-change-countermovement/ |title=Inside the Climate Change “Countermovement” |author= ] |publisher=] |work='']'' |date=October 23, 2012 |accessdate=February 21, 2015}}</ref><ref name=overview/> | |||
| As of June 2014, the board of directors consists of Adam Meyerson, Kimberly Dennis, Whitney Ball, ], ], Kris Mauren, William Mellor, Roger Ream, and John Von Kannon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Donors Capital Fund Board of Directors|url=http://www.donorscapitalfund.org/AboutUs/DirectorsOfficers.aspx|publisher=Donors Capital Fund|accessdate=19 June 2014}}</ref> | |||
| Donors Capital Fund files with the US ] as a ] nonprofit corporation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/541934032 |title=Donors Capital Fund |publisher=] |accessdate=February 21, 2015 |work=Nonprofit Explorer }}</ref> | |||
| ==Funding recipients== | |||
| DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund had distributed nearly $120 million dollars to more than 100 groups skeptical of ] between 2002 and 2010, according to the '']''.<ref name=secret>{{cite news|last1=Goldenberg|first1=Suzanne|title=Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks|url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network|accessdate=7 February 2015|publisher=The Guardian|date=February 14, 2013}}</ref> According to environmental sociologist ], "by 2009, about one-quarter of the funding of the climate countermovement is from the Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund."<ref name=brulle/> | |||
| In 2008, the Donors Capital Fund granted $17.7 million to The Clarion Fund, now the ], a nonprofit corporation organized for the education of the US public about the dangers of ]. ”One of our clients made a recommendation for Clarion and so we did it,” Whitney Ball, president of Donors Capital Fund, told '']'', the news website.<ref name=salon>{{cite news |date=November 16, 2010 |title= Mystery of who funded right-wing “radical Islam” campaign deepens |first=Justin |last=Elliott |accessdate=February 21, 2015 |url=http://www.salon.com/2010/11/16/clarion_fund_obsession_dvds/ |publisher=]}}</ref><ref name=nation>{{cite news |title=Fear, Inc.: America's Islamophobia Network |first=George |last=Zornick |date=August 29, 2011 |accessdate=February 20, 2015 |url=http://www.thenation.com/blog/163023/fear-inc-americas-islamophobia-network |newspaper=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New Report Details Funding Sources Behind Anti-Muslim Fearmongers |first=Robert |last=Steinback |date=August 26, 2011 |accessdate=February 21, 2015 |url=http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/26/new-report-details-funding-sources-behind-anti-muslim-fearmongers/ |publisher=]}}</ref> | |||
| In 2009 and 20101 Donors Capital Fund granted $192,000 to the new nonprofit corporation Alaska Policy Forum (a member of the ] of ] ]s which focus on ]), which was most of the funds raised by the Forum in that period.<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservative group shapes Alaska policy debate with Outside help |first=Alex |last=DeMarban |date=September 14, 2014 |accessdate=February 21, 2015 |url=http://www.adn.com/article/20140914/conservative-group-shapes-alaska-policy-debate-outside-help |publisher=]}}</ref><ref> accessed February 8, 2015</ref> | |||
| Donors Capital Fund paid the legal fees of the Project on Fair Representation, a ]-based legal defense fund that assembled the plaintiff's legal team in '']'', a 2013 ] case concerning ] ].<ref>{{cite news |title=One Man Standing Against Race-Based Laws |last=Smith |first=Morgan |date=February 23, 2012 |accessdate=February 21, 2015 |newspaper=] |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/us/edward-blum-and-the-project-on-fair-representation-head-to-the-supreme-court-to-fight-race-based-laws.html}}</ref> | |||
| ==References== | |||
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