Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, Credit: America Abroad Media

The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation is a private grant-making organisation. It claims to '[continue] a multi-generational history of family philanthropy'. It evolved from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, established in 1962, and the Kathryn W. Davis Foundation, established in 2004. It is presided over and chaired by Diana Davis Spencer.

Their website explains what their founding values are:

'Our Founding Fathers enshrined freedom, limited government, and individual responsibility in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They knew that these values would guide future generations to prosperity and happiness. Today, the growth of big government endangers these principles. Society increasingly depends on fiscally unsustainable entitlement and welfare programs. To guarantee their political, social, and economic freedoms, Americans must rediscover and apply their founding values. We’re helping them do so through our support to a variety of research, advocacy, and educational organizations.

For example, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy supports over 50,000 legal professionals committed to preserving constitutional government and the rule of law. One Generation Away develops educational projects to teach Americans of all ages about the Constitution and how it applies to modern issues. Liberty’s Promise instills our founding values in new immigrants and helps integrate them into American civic society.'

Grants

• American Enterprise Institute received $1,750,000 in 2015.
• American Foreign Policy Council received $100,000 in 2015.
• Investigative Project on Terrorism received $10,000 in 2010, $20,000 in 2011 and 2012, $25,000 in 2013; $50,000 in 2014
• Center for Security Policy - $15,000 in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. $30,000 in 2014. Large increase in 2015: receiving US $400,000 for its 'counterjihad project and Menges campaign'
• Center for Strategic & International Studies received $125,000.
• Donors Trust - $300,000 in 2013, £3,005,000 in 2015.
• Fund for American Studies - $8,000 in 2012, $10,000 in 2013
• Gatestone Institute received £25,000 in 2015.
• Hoover Institute received $1,750,000 in 2015.
• Institute for American Values - $10,000 in 2013
• Institute for Foreign policy Analysis received $100,000 in 2015.
• Institute for Humane Studies: $10,000 in 2014, $50,000 in 2015.
• Middle East Media and Research Institute, Inc - $4,000 in 2010, $10,000 in 2011, $5,000 in 2013, $50,000 in 2014.
• Media Research Center: $25,000 in 2010, 2011 and 2012, $100,000 in 2014.
• Philanthropy Roundtable - $10,000 in 2010, $15,000 in 2011, 2012 and 2013, $50,000 in 2014.
• Heritage Foundation - $9, 049, 250 in 2013
• Federalist Society: $15,000 in 2014, 2012 and 2010. $11,000 in 2011
• Freedom Alliance: $100,000 in 2015.
• Aspen Institute: $5,000 (2010, 2011)

Affiliations

• Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation - part of its assets were transferred to this foundation in 2010.
• Kathryn W. Davis Foundation

Staff and Trustees

• Diana Davis Spencer: president and chairman.
• Abby Moffat: chief executive officer. Daughter of Diana Davis Spencer
• Harrison Howard: Independent Trustee
• Kimberly LaManna: Trustee
• Christopher Burn: Audit & Investment Committee Member

Contact

website: http://ddsfoundation.org