"Billionaire businessman and right-wing political donor Richard Uihlein, who owns the shipping supply company Uline, gave $400,000 to the FDRLST Media Foundation. Conservative funding vehicle DonorsTrust contributed $249,000, and the Thomas W. Smith Foundation added $150,000.
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"The three known donors to the FDRLST Media Foundation also fund the nonprofit behind the news site RealClearPolitics. The Real Clear Foundation has been around for a number of years and took in close to $3.8 million in 2019, roughly $500,000 more than the year before."
"From 2015-19, the Real Clear Foundation received $5.1 million from DonorsTrust, $850,000 from the Ed Uihlein Foundation, and $450,000 from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation. Other Real Clear donors include the Charles Koch Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation."
"DonorsTrust, the 'dark money ATM of the conservative movement,' is a donor-advised fund sponsor that Republican billionaires such as Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, and the DeVos family use to donate millions of dollars to conservative causes."
"In 2019, DonorsTrust gave $1.5 mill to the foundation behind white nationalist hate group VDARE, the largest known donation to a white nationalist group. It gave $10,500 to the New Century Foundation, which funds Jared Taylor’s white nationalist magazine, American Renaissance."
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