The Donald J. Trump Foundation was a New York-based charitable foundation founded by Donald Trump. The following is a partial list of grants made by the foundation from 2006 through 2009.
The foundation's annual IRS Form 990 filing would normally contain the full list of grants made by the foundation. [1] [2] [3] The following lists are incomplete.
The following were reported to the Foundation Center during the year 2006: [4]
The following grants were reported to the Foundation Center during the year 2007: [5]
The Palm Beach Post has listed some additional recipients, as "a few of the larger donations made by the foundation through the years": [6]
According to a review by the International Business Times , the Trump Foundation did not give to right-wing causes until 2010, when donations to conservative organizations were first reported. [7] Among these organizations, the Foundation gave: [7]
In 2010, the Trump Foundation made a $10,000 contribution to Jenny McCarthy's Generation Rescue, an organization that promotes vaccine hesitancy. [7]
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charitable giving to conservative political groups, healthcare and sports-related charities