The Lacuna Project

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Person

Leonard Leo (Trustee and Chairman, Marble Freedom Trust, per its Form 990)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-5.8: Organizations on both sides pass money to political groups through intermediaries that name no donors in public filings. Over tax periods ending 2020 to 2025, Schedule I grants by the right-side Marble Freedom Trust were $1,024 million and by DonorsTrust $1,241 million, and the left-side Tides Foundation $2,281 million, New Venture Fund $1,881 million, Sixteen Thirty Fund $924 million and Hopewell Fund $425 million; Marble Freedom Trust reported $1,603,791,362 in contributions for the year ended April 2021 and named no donor.
  • POL-5.9: ProPublica and The Lever reported, following The New York Times, that Barre Seid was the source of the $1.6 billion that Marble Freedom Trust received. The Associated Press reported that groups funded by Hansjorg Wyss gave Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund $245 million since 2016, including $208 million to Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 921 filed 2022. Marble Freedom Trust / IRS TEOS: Marble Freedom Trust Form 990, fiscal year ended April 2021
  • Exhibit 923 22 August 2022. ProPublica and The Lever: How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts