David Horowitz Freedom Center
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 up 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
2014
- Donors Trust: gave $151,000
- National Christian Charitable Foundation gave $5,550 [3]
- Middle East Forum gave $10,000 [4]
- Milstein Family Foundation gave $5,000 [5]
- The Snider Foundation gave $100,000 [6]
2013
- Bochnowski Family Foundation gave $10,000 [7]
- Claws Foundation gave $150,000 [7]
- Milstein Family Foundation gave $5,000 [8]
- The Snider Foundation gave $100,000 [9]
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund gave $186,000 [10]
- Donors Trust gave $61,000 [11]
The centre has also received funds from the Middle East Forum.
2012
- Allegheny Foundation gave grant of USD $150,000 - 2012[12]
- Bochnowski Family Foundation gave a grant of USD $10,000 in 2012[12]
- Claws Foundation gave USD $150,000 - 2012 [12]
- Donors Capital Fund gave $100,000 in 2012 [7]
- Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation - gave $1000 in 2012 and $1000 in 2011[13]
- Sarah Scaife Foundation gave USD $225,000 - 2012[12]
- 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. [14]
- Milstein Family Foundation gave $5,000 [15]
- The Snider Foundation gave $100,000 [16]
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund gave $111,500 [17]
- National Christian Charitable Foundation gave $13,000 [18]
2011
- The Snider Foundation gave $100,000 [19]
2010
- The Fairbrook Foundation gave $171,000. [20]
- The Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust gave $1,000 [21]
2009
- The Fairbrook Foundation gave $171,750. [22]
- The Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust gave $11,000 [21]
2008
- The Fairbrook Foundation gave $14,250 [23]
2007
- The Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust gave $1,000 [21]
Funding counterjihad activists
2010-2014
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.[24]
The US Conservative Transparency database shows that the Horowitz Freedom Center made three donations between 2010 and 2012 to counterjihad writer and activist Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch:
- -$45,500 in 2012
- -$95,000 in 2011
- -$30,000 in 2010 [25]
2014
In 2014 the DHFC granted US $10,000 to Freedom X, an organisation that claims to 'protect conservative values and religious freedom of expression', explicitly declaring to be fight against 'islamic indoctrination' .[26]
Overseas, the DHFC gave $249,125 to the Middle East and North Africa region; the purpose cited was 'Education on Middle Eastern conflicts and coverage of events in the region'.
Geert Wilders: speeches funded by US counterjihadists
In 2012 it emerged that both David Horowitz (and Daniel Pipes via the Middle East Forum's Legal Project) had both given money to Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.[27] While declining to specify amounts, according to Reuters, Horowitz said he had paid Wilders "a good fee" for making two speeches, one in Los Angeles and one at Temple University in Philadelphia. He also paid "a special security fee of about $1,500 to the Philadelphia police department" for security costs during student protests generated by the event and for overnight accommodation for four or five Dutch government bodyguards accompanying Wilders on a 2009 US trip.[27]
During Wilders' visit to Los Angeles, the David Horowitz Freedom Center organized an event at which Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed were auctioned but Horowitz claimed he did not remember how much money this event raised or what happened to the proceeds. Reuters reported that while former officials from Wilders' Freedom Party (known as PVV) - which is not publically funded and therefore is able to operate less transparently than other Dutch parties - have said it relies almost entirely on foreign donations, both Horowitz and Pipes deny funding political activities in the Netherlands. The non-profit, tax exempt organisations they run are, under U.S. tax laws, forbidden from giving direct financial backing to any political candidate or party but may sponsor policy debates.[27]
In September 2015 however a Dutch interior ministry disclosure revealed that Wilders’ PVV party had received €18,110 ($20,000) from the centre on 28 March 2014. This was the result of a new law requiring parties to publish grants above 4500 euros. [28]The PVV had previously resisted such disclosure.
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.[29]
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
- ↑ David Horowitz Freedom Center Top Contributors 2014, Conservative Transparency, Accessed 20 October 2016.
- ↑ Middle East Forum, 990 Form, 2014.
- ↑ Milstein Family Foundation, Form 990, 2014
- ↑ Snider Foundation, Form 990, 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency Database, accessed 10 June 2015
- ↑ Milstein Family Foundation, Form 990, 2013
- ↑ Snider Foundation, Form 990, 2013.
- ↑ Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund, Form 990, 2013.
- ↑ Donors Trust donations, Conservative Transparency, accessed 21 October 2015
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 2 March 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
- ↑ Milstein Family Foundation, Form 990, 2012
- ↑ Snider Foundation, Form 990, 2012.
- ↑ Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund, Form 990, 2013.
- ↑ Top recipients 2012, Conservative Transparency, accessed 20 october 2016.
- ↑ Snider Foundation, Form 990, 2011.
- ↑ Fairbrook Foundation; 2010 transactions, Conservative Transparency, accessed 18 October 2016.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust Donations, Conservative Transparency, accessed 20 October 2016.
- ↑ Fairbrook Foundation; 2009 transactions, Conservative Transparency, accessed 18 October 2016.
- ↑ Fairbrook Foundation; 2008 transactions, Conservative Transparency, accessed 18 October 2016.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Freedom X, website accessed November 2015, and 13 October 2016
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Anthony Deutsch and Mark Hosenball, Exclusive: U.S. groups helped fund Dutch anti-Islam politician Wilders, Reuters, 10 September 2012
- ↑ PVV disclosure to the Dutch interior minister dated 28 May 2015
- ↑ Kiersten Marek, Meet the Funders Gunning to Kill Obamacare, Inside Philanthropy, 9 February 2015, accessed 27 April 2015
