Deramus Foundation
Patricia Bunch, one of the foundation's directors. Source: Pat Bunch Law
The Deramus Foundation (formerly Southern Foundation, Inc.) is a private charitable organisation established in 1966. Its declared fields of interest include: diseases and conditions; education; higher education; human services; public affairs; public policy. [1]
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Grants to counterjihad groups
The Deramus Foundation was one of the top foundations giving support to the anti-Muslim David Horowitz Freedom Center according to IRS filings to 2013. It gave two grants totalling $70,000. [2] In 2014 it gave the group another $50,000 USD.
Other grantees
- Freedom Alliance - $100,000 (2012)
- Philanthropy Roundtable - $5,000 (2011)
- The Heritage Foundation - $100,000 (2011) [3]
2015 filings
Include:
- Freedom Alliance Foundation - $126,000
- Institute of World Politics - $5,000
2014 filings
- Arts and Recreation Foundation Overland Park - $1,000
- Children's Center for Visually Impaired - $25,000
- Colorado Christian University - $1,000
- Committee for Constructive Tomorrow - $5,000
- Constituting America - $25,000
- David Horowitz Freedom Center - $50,000
- De LaSalle High School - $5,000
- Discovery Institute - $10,000
- Franklin Society Center for Government and Public Policy - $20,000
- Freedom Alliance Foundation - $275,000
- Friends of Mt Vernon - $5,000
- Friends of the Zoo - $155,000
- German Shepherd Dog Club - $20,000
- Hally Bug Yust K-State Basketball Scholarship - $10,000
- Heartland Therapeutic Riding Inc - $5,000
- Hillsdale College - $25,000
- Independence Institute - $5,000
- Judicial Watch - $5,000
- Kansas City Healing Project - $50,000
- Kansas City Hospice - $10,000
- Kansas Policy Institute - $55,000
- Nelson Art Gallery - $10,000
- Project Vote Smart One Common Ground - $1,000
- Queen of the Holy Rosary School - $60,000
- Robert Duvalls Children Foundation - $10,000
- St Luke's Hospital Foundation - $50,000
- Smile Train - $5,000
- Spirt of America - $5,000
- St Jude's Hospital - $10,000
- Starlight Theatre - $25,000
- Sunflowers to Roses - $10,000
- Surviving House and Family Endowment - $10,000
- The Atlas Society - $10,000
- The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty - $10,000
- USO - $10,000
- Wikimedia Foundation - $5,000
- Tax Foundation - $25,000 [4]
People
- William Deramus - director/president/secretary
- Patricia D Bunch - director/vice-president/treasurer
- Jill Dean - director/vice president
- Jean Wagner - director/vice president [5]
Contact
Address: 9401 Indian Creek Pkwy., Ste. 700
Overland Park, KS United States 66210-2005
Telephone: (816) 292-8152
Notes
- ↑ Deramus Foundation, Foundation Directory, accessed 1 December 2016.
- ↑ Top Supporters of David Horowitz Freedom Center, accessed 10 June 2015
- ↑ Deramus Foundation donations, Conservative Transparency, accessed 15 January 2016
- ↑ Form 990 2014, Foundation Center, accessed 25 January 2016
- ↑ Form 990 2013, ProPublica, accessed 14 January 2016
