Key Findings
- Donors Trust is a Virginia-based charity that has passed nearly $400 million from private donors to free-market causes since 1999.
- Dozens of major conservative philanthropies hold Donors Trust accounts, including two run by industrialist Charles Koch (see graphic).
- Donors Trust has funded at least 51 state-level, free-market think tanks since 2007.
- A conservative media outlet called the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity drew 95 percent of its revenue from Donors Trust in 2011.
