Donors Capital Fund

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Donors Capital Fund (DCF) is a non-profit Virginia-based donor advised charity that distributes grants to politically conservative and libertarian organisations.

Known as a right wing 'slush fund' , it enables wealthy donors to fund organisations anonymously. Founded in 1999, it is affiliated with the Donors Trust.

Donations

Clarion Fund

In 2008, the Clarion Fund received a grant of $17,778,600 from Donors Capital Fund, which also funded Security Research Associates, a group run by anti-Islam activist and radio host Tom Trento who assisted in the distribution of the anti-Islam film Obsession.[1][2]

Fracknation film

Donors Trust/ Donors Capital Fund - partially funded Fracknation film makers' first two films [3]

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Notes

  1. Jump up Eli Clifton, Right Wing “Slush Fund” Behind 2008 Islamophobia Campaign, Lobelog.com, 28 October 2010
  2. Jump up Form 990 filing for Donors Capital Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury, 2008
  3. Jump up Steve Horn, "FrackNation" Part Two: The Koch Industries Ties That Bind, Desmogblog.com, 4 June 2013