Edgerly Foundation
Formerly the Foundation for Partnerships Trust, the Edgerly Foundation is a charitable organisation based in Chicago, Illinois. In 1993 it received its exempt organization status from the IRS. Its stated purpose and activities are 'giving primarily for education and community development', but its interests also include 'foreign policy' and 'legal services'. [1]
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.
Grants
2010
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- David Horowitz Freedom Center: $2,100
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies: $1,000
- Middle East Forum: $50,000
- 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]
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.
