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Revision as of 10:28, 13 July 2015
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in 1988 as the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC). The Center adopted its current name in 2006.[1]
David Horowitz is its chief executive and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is listed as a member of staff.
Contents
Funding
Top donors calculated by IRS filings to 2013 included:
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (98 grants) - $8,213,000
- Sarah Scaife Foundation (24 grants) - $6,000,000
- John M. Olin Foundation (17 grants) - $2,285,000
- Allegheny Foundation (12 grants) $1,500,000
- Scaife Family Foundation (12 grants) - $1,225,000
- Fairbrook Foundation (55 grants) - $789,500
- The Carthage Foundation (5 grants) - $625,000
- The Randolph Foundation (7 grants) - $497,500
- Castle Rock Foundation (8 grants) - $385,000
- Jaquelin Hume Foundation 2 grants - $150,000
- Claws Foundation (1 grant) - $150,000
- Hickory Foundation (15 grants) - $148,000
- The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation (5 grants) - $125,000
- Donors Capital Fund (5 grants) - $116,000
2012
- Allegheny Foundation gave grant of USD $150,000 - 2012[3]
- Bochnowski Family Foundation gave a grant of USD $10,000 in 2012[3]
- Claws Foundation gave USD $150,000 - 2012 [3]
- Donors Capital Fund gave $100,000 in 2012 [4]
- Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation - gave $1000 in 2012 and $1000 in 2011[5]
- Sarah Scaife Foundation gave USD $225,000 - 2012[3]
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation The Center in 2012 was one of this conservative foundation's top 25 beneficiaries to which it gave US $265,000. [6]
2013
- Bochnowski Family Foundation gave $10,000 [4]
- Claws Foundation gave $150,000 [4]
Funding counterjihad activists
Politico reported in September 2010 that the Center was funding Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website:
- Though it was not listed on the public tax reports filed by Horowitz’s Freedom Center, POLITICO has confirmed that the lion’s share of the $920,000 it provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from [Joyce] Chernick, whose husband, Aubrey Chernick, has a net worth of $750 million, as a result of his 2004 sale to IBM of a software company he created, and a security consulting firm he now owns.[7]
The Conservative Transparency database shows that the Horowitz Freedom Center made three donations between 2010 and 2012 to Jihad Watch:
- -$45,500 in 2012
- -$95,000 in 2011
- -$30,000 in 2010
Geert Wilders
In 2012 it emerged that David Horowitz (and Daniel Pipes) had bother given money to Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.[9]
Staff
- Founder / CEO - David Horowitz
- President / COO - Michael Finch
- VP of Publications - Peter Collier
- Director of Jihad Watch - Robert Spencer
- Managing Editor FrontPage Magazine - Jamie Glazov
- Associate Editor FrontPage Magazine - Nichole Hungerford
- Editor, The Point _ Daniel Greenfield
- Managing Editor DiscoverTheNetworks - John Perazzo
- Editor-in-Chief, TruthRevolt - Ben Shapiro
- Director, Israel Security Project - Caroline Glick
- Director of Development - Jay Ornellas
- National Campus Director - Sara Dogan
- Director of Marketing and Campus Campaigns - Jeff Wienir
- Office Manager - Sharon Schuster
- Executive Assistant - Elizabeth Ruiz
- Website/IT Manager - Daniel Ashton
- Development Associate - Stephanie Knudson
Affiliations
- The Individual Rights Center/ Foundation is the legal arm of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[10]
Articles
Center announcements
- "A New Birth of Freedom", FrontPage Magazine.com, July 7, 2006.
Contact information
David Horowitz Freedom Center
P.O. Box 361269
Los Angeles, CA 90036-9828
Phone: (818) 849-3470
E-mail: info AT horowitzfreedomcenter.org
Web: http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org
External resources
- Sourcewatch David Horowitz Freedom Center
Notes
- ↑ About the Center, David Horowitz Freedom Center, accessed 21 September 2010.
- ↑ Top Supporters of David Horowitz Freedom Center, accessed 10 June 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 2 March 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency Database, accessed 10 June 2015
- ↑ David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 3 March 2015
- ↑ Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Conservative Transparency database, search date 4 May 2015
- ↑ Kenneth P. Vogel and Giovanni Russonello, Latest mosque issue: The money trail, Politico, 4 September 2010.
- ↑ David Horowitz Freedom Center, Grants, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 3 March 2015
- ↑ Anthony Deutsch and Mark Hosenball, Exclusive: U.S. groups helped fund Dutch anti-Islam politician Wilders, Reuters, 10 September 2012
- ↑ Kiersten Marek, Meet the Funders Gunning to Kill Obamacare, Inside Philanthropy, 9 February 2015, accessed 27 April 2015
