The end of the year invariably sees a scramble as researchers and journalists try to be the first to get their hands on potentially interesting tax filings from various non-profit groups. In pre-covid days this would often mean riding the Amtrak into New York or D.C. to secure the document in person, directly from the group. These days much of that scramble happens through email.

The filings published on this page were all obtained by Documented directly. But please note that some of these filings were first independently published or reported on by somebody else before us. Where we know this is the case, we have credited it. If we missed something out, then know that it wasn’t intentional, we just missed it, and we are very happy to update and add a link to that reporting. It is our intention to create a useful curated collection of these filings. If you are a reporter and are using any of the filings in a story, we would appreciate you mentioning Documented. We will keep updating this as we receive more, so check back.

It's not just Donors Trust and the Koch Network

The donors

A handful of large donors including Donors Trust, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and various Koch network non-profits provide substantial funding to groups on the right. As an example, the State Policy Network received $14.6. million in funding in 2020, with $7.9 million of this coming from Donors Trust alone. As a result, they get the bulk of the attention from researchers and reporters. This is somewhat understandable, but there are other often overlooked foundations, and we are providing all of the flings for those foundations together here.


This isn't the full picture of course. Individuals, corporations and even political committees can make unlimited donations to non-profits. But with the exception of the political committees, who might have to report those donations as part of state or FEC disclosures, these other donors are generally able to keep their contributions secret. Sometimes we get a look into this type of giving, for example when a donor list is inadvertently filed or leaked, and we can see the secret corporate cash flow. That is a story for another day, but if you are a reporter or researcher and want to talk about some of this more, get in touch, we have lots of examples.

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Donors Trust 2020 Tax Filing

Donors Trust continues to grow year on year. This filing shows another increase in revenue, up from $323 million received in 2019, to $360 million in 2020. It is also building a substantial war chest: it closed the year with assets of $607 million, an increase of $185 million in just a year.

As best we can tell, CNBC was the first to report on this filing: Trump ally’s fund received over $20 million last year, then funneled cash to other right-leaning groups (Nov 18, 2021).

Published: December 16, 2021
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The Bradley Impact Fund 2020 Tax Filing

The Bradley Impact Fund describes itself as "a boutique donor-advised fund." It is the sister to a related and much larger fund, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Jane Mayer of the New Yorker recently described the Bradley Foundation as being “an extraordinary force in persuading mainstream Republicans to support radical challenges to election rules.”

According to the tax filing, the Bradley Impact Fund had a big leap in revenue last year, going from $14 million in 2019, up to $31 million in 2020. It used this extra cash to boost its own support to a number of groups, and none more so than Project Veritas. In the previous four tax years combined, Project Veritas had received $54,818 from the Bradley Impact Fund. In 2020, it received $6,510,825.

Published: December 14, 2021

Non-profit groups

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Turning Point USA 2019 Tax Filing

This 2019 filing was filed in May 2021 due to the group using a non-calendar-year tax period for its accounting. The group's revenue has ballooned from $2m in 2015 to almost $40m in 2020.

During this period, TPUSA and its CEO Charlie Kirk developed a close and mutually beneficial relationship with the Trump family. Kirk published a book called The MAGA Doctrine, and Trump family members including Donald Trump were frequent guest speakers at TPUSA events.

Published: October 27, 2021
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Project Veritas 2020 Tax Filing

The filing shows a large increase in funding, up from $12 million in 2019 to $22 million in 2020. $6.6 million of this came from the Bradley Impact Fund, as listed in the 2020 tax filing for that fund, also obtained by Documented.

These filings were provided by Documented to the Washington Post, who first reported about this on Dec 15th 2021: Project Veritas nearly doubled its funding in 2020 while amplifying baseless election fraud claims

Published: December 14, 2021