Nonprofit
Marble Freedom Trust (501(c)(4))
Documented money flows
- Marble Freedom Trust (501(c)(4)) to Rule of Law Trust (501(c)(4)), grant, $153,000,000, FYE April 2021. Exhibit 921
- Marble Freedom Trust (501(c)(4)) to The Concord Fund (501(c)(4); formerly Judicial Crisis Network), grant, $194,800,000, FYE April 2021-April 2025. Exhibit 920
- Marble Freedom Trust (501(c)(4)) to Schwab Charitable Fund (501(c)(3) donor-advised fund), grant, $605,200,000, FYE April 2021-April 2025. Exhibit 920
- Marble Freedom Trust (501(c)(4)) to DonorsTrust (501(c)(3)), grant, $41,100,000, FYE April 2021. Exhibit 921
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- POL-5.3: Federal law does not require a 501(c)(4) to disclose its contributors' names to the public. Since Rev. Proc. 2018-38 (July 2018) and T.D. 9898 (28 May 2020), the organization also does not report contributor names and addresses to the IRS on Schedule B, and the IRS public data files show every Schedule B donor field as RESTRICTED.
- POL-5.8: Organizations on both sides pass money to political groups through intermediaries that name no donors in public filings. Over tax periods ending 2020 to 2025, Schedule I grants by the right-side Marble Freedom Trust were $1,024 million and by DonorsTrust $1,241 million, and the left-side Tides Foundation $2,281 million, New Venture Fund $1,881 million, Sixteen Thirty Fund $924 million and Hopewell Fund $425 million; Marble Freedom Trust reported $1,603,791,362 in contributions for the year ended April 2021 and named no donor.
- POL-5.9: ProPublica and The Lever reported, following The New York Times, that Barre Seid was the source of the $1.6 billion that Marble Freedom Trust received. The Associated Press reported that groups funded by Hansjorg Wyss gave Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund $245 million since 2016, including $208 million to Sixteen Thirty Fund.
- POL-5.16: The public record does not show the original donors behind 501(c)(4) transfers to super PACs. The IRS public data file shows every Schedule B donor field as RESTRICTED, and the IRS no longer collects contributor names from 501(c)(4) organizations.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 886 filed 2022. Internal Revenue Service (TEOS e-file XML): Marble Freedom Trust Form 990 (FYE April 2021), public XML: Schedule B fields
- Exhibit 921 filed 2022. Marble Freedom Trust / IRS TEOS: Marble Freedom Trust Form 990, fiscal year ended April 2021
- Exhibit 923 22 August 2022. ProPublica and The Lever: How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts