Coors, Scaife, Koch, Uihlein, Seid, Bradley - The Six Billionaire Families Funding Project 2025 & Heritage

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The Coors Family
At least $2.7 million to Project 2025 groups since 2020

In 1972, Joseph Coors, grandson of Coors Brewing Company founder Adolph Coors, kick-started the Heritage Foundation with an initial gift of $250,000. For years, he supported the conservative think tank’s growth, ultimately funneling his funds through the Adolph Coors Foundation, the nonprofit he started with his brother Bill in 1976. “There wouldn’t be a Heritage Foundation without Joe Coors,” former Heritage president Edwin J. Feulner wrote in a 2003 tribute. The tradition continues today, with billionaire Peter H. Coors — retired beer magnate and Adolph’s great-grandson — at the helm. The Adolph Coors Foundation funded 22 Project 2025 advisory groups between 2020 and 2023, including $300,000 to the Heritage Foundation. Vance has been connected to Heritage since at least 2017, when he wrote the forward to that organization’s “Index of Culture and Opportunity” and gave a keynote address at a Heritage event promoting the report.

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Charles G. Koch
At least $9.6 million to Project 2025 groups since 2020

In terms of raw numbers, Charles Koch — the CEO and chairman of Koch Industries, a sprawling conglomerate with an oil refinery focus — isn’t the biggest donor to Project 2025 groups in the past few years. But his support for the vast fundraising apparatus that powers conservative charities, including dozens of the initiative’s coalition partners, goes back decades, and his influence can’t be underestimated. A review of public financial disclosures by Greenpeace found that the network of charitable foundations linked to Koch and his late brother, David Koch, donated more than $165 million to climate-change-denying groups between 1986 and 2018. That includes more than $23 million to 16 nonprofits that Project 2025 lists among its advisors.

Throughout the 1990s, Koch Industries was also a “vital supporter” of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Project 2025 advisor. A membership group that connects more than 2,000 state legislators to over 300 corporations and private foundations, ALEC calls itself “a forum for stakeholders to exchange ideas”; New Yorker investigative journalist Jane Mayer, in her book Dark Money, describes it as an enormously successful effort “aimed at waging conservative fights in every state legislature in the country.” Foundations linked to Charles G. Koch donated more than $1.2 million to ALEC since 2020, Desmog’s review found, mostly through his Stand Together Trust.

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The Bradley Family
At least $52.9 million to Project 2025 groups since 2020

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation was originally established in 1942 by brothers Lynde and Harry Bradley, founders of the Allen-Bradley company, which made its fortune manufacturing a wide range of electronic products. Their descendants have continued to financially support the foundation for years to come, including with a reported $200 million gift in 2015. But it was Michael W. Grebe, who served as CEO of the foundation between 2002 and 2016, who cemented its reputation as a conservative powerhouse, steering donations to a network of activist organizations like The Heritage Foundation, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and the Heartland Institute (all Project 2025 coalition partners). The current chairman is James Arthur “Art” Pope, CEO of the North Carolina grocery chain Variety Wholesalers, a longtime Koch ally.

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https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

[Snarkoleptic]

1. ProTip- If you find any of those Uline catalogs at your workplace, please recycle immediately.

n/t

[Hope22]

4. We still receive a ULine catalog after being out of business ten years...

We let them send it and then promptly recycle it.

[mopinko]

11. i get 2 of them.

i regret getting rid of my chickens when it comes. i used shredded paper for bedding.

i bought something from them once 20 yrs ago. dont remember what it was, but whatever they made at that time was spent by them long ago on their stupid catalogues.

[Hope22]

13. LOL!😁💗 nt

[GiqueCee]

2. When I read articles like this...

... I think of all the GOOD these people could have done with their wealth. Instead, all they can think of is the delight they can take in all the harm the can inflict on those they consider "lesser beings".

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Descendants of the class who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933.

We each need to be our own Smedley Butler.

DU 2013:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3646515

[Clouds Passing]

7. Thanks Kid. Miss those Posters.

[UpInArms]

5. Even when they are dead, their evil still runs

It is disheartening

[Clouds Passing]

6. Treasoners, Traitors, Thieves, Criminals. Arrest them all

[ampm]

8. The Mercher also come to mind

I try not to use products from these companies, like paper products from Koch and Uline. If they want to spend money on magazines that I throw away, that's on them.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. We know who the traitors are

Now how do we deal with them?

[wolfie001]

10. I'm glad I stopped buying Silver Bullet about 8 years ago

It wasn't political at the time. Just cutting back on $ and carbs but it seems I made a great decision. Here's the beer I've been drinking for the past 6 years. The price hasn't gone up since I first bought it before the pandemic. Hopefully, I didn't jinx myself I drink one every 2 weeks or so.
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[mopinko]

12. coors always was watered down shitty beer.

this is my brew now. cheap but very good.
https://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/all-day-ipa/