Edgerly Foundation
Formerly the Foundation for Partnerships Trust, the Edgerly Foundation is a charitable organisation based in Chicago, Illinois.
Purpose
Its stated purpose and activities are 'giving primarily for education and community development', but its interests also include 'foreign policy' and 'legal services'. [1]
Grants
The foundation funds several counterjihad organisations, most notably the Middle East Forum. Between 2000 and 2009 it gave MEF $75,000 in grants,[2] , and from 2009 to 2015, a total of USD $180,000. [3]>
Smaller sums have been given to other organisations, including the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The Foundation's latest financial records show it brings in $540,052 in annual income.
2010
Grants included:
- Federalist Society: $10,000
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $100,000
- Middle East Forum: $10,000
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $100,000
- Fund for American Studies: $1,000
- Heritage Foundation: $100,000
- Media Research Center: $1,000
- Americans for Peace and Tolerance: $1,000 [4]
2011
Grants included:
- Americans for Peace and Tolerance: $10,000
- Middle East Forum: $10,000
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $1,000
- Fund for American Studies: $1,000
- Federalist Society: $5,000
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $50,000
- Heritage Foundation: $50,000
- Media Research Center: $1,000
- Institute on Religion and Democracy: $10,100
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $10,000 [5]
2012
Grants included:
- Americans for Peace and Tolerance: $17,000
- Middle East Forum: $5,000
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $10,000
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $1,000
- Institute on Religion and Democracy: $2,000
- Federalist Society: $5,000
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $10,000
- Heritage Foundation: $10,000
- Freedom Alliance: $1,000
- American Freedom Law Center: $1,000 [6]
2013
Grants included:
- Americans for Peace and Tolerance: $25,000
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $1,000
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $10,000
- Middle East Forum: $55,000
- Heritage Foundation: $110,000
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $10,000
- Institute on Religion and Democracy: $1,000
- Federalist Society: $1,000
- American Freedom Law Center: $1,000 [7]
2014
Grants included:
- Americans for Peace and Tolerance: $200,000
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $1,000
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $5,000
- Middle East Forum: $50,000
- Heritage Foundation: $10,000
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $100,000
- Institute on Religion and Democracy: $1,000
- Federalist Society: $1,000
- Media Research Center: $11,000
- Freedom Watch: $1,000 [8]
2015
From a total of $197,000 USD in grants that included the following organisations:
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $2,100
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $1,000
- Middle East Forum: $50,000 - 'general' purpose
- Heritage Foundation: $10,000
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: $50,000
- Federalist Society: $1,000
- Media Research Center: $1,000
- Act for America Education: $1,000 [9]
People
The foundation has trustees but no staff. They are:
- William P Lawrence
- William S Edgerly, who also founded the Foundation for Partnerships Trust and is the former CEO of State Street Bank [10]. He has deep ties to the charter school movement since he was a board member of the Pioneer Institute, and his second foundation is revealed to have funded the Freedom Foundation [11].
- Lois Stiles Edgerly
- The North Trust Company : 40 h/week, at a rate of $6,7076. [12]
Address
PO BOX 803878,
Chicago, IL
60680-3878 [1]
In 1993 it received its exempt organisation status from the IRS.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edgerly Foundation, Foundation Directory, accessed December 1 2016.
- ↑ MEF Funding, rightweb.irc, accessed 29 January 2016
- ↑ Spinwatch analysis of Form 990s from 2009-2015
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2010.
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2011.
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2012.
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2013.
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2014.
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2015.
- ↑ Freedom Foundation, Source Watch, accessed 27 October 2016.
- ↑ THE PIONEER INSTITUTE: PRIVATIZING THE COMMON WEALTH, Political Research, 13 July 2002. Accessed 27 October 2016.
- ↑ Edgerly Foundation, Form 990, 2015.