{"id":8076,"date":"2015-05-13T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2015-05-13T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:31:45","slug":"exclusive-major-climate-denial-funders-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund-handled-479-million-of-dark-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8076","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $479 Million Of Dark Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $479 Million Of Dark Money<\/a><\/h3>\n

More than $470 million of cash flowing into a key funding arm of the climate science denial movement in the United States is untraceable, a DeSmog investigation has\u00a0found.<\/p>\n

Sister organisations\u00a0Donors Trust<\/a>\u00a0(DT<\/span>) and\u00a0Donors Capital Fund<\/a>\u00a0(DCF<\/span>) declared an income of $511 million between 2005 and 2012, tax records\u00a0show.<\/p>\n

But a DeSmog analysis of the sources of\u00a0DT<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0DCF<\/span>\u00a0income finds that some $479 million of the income is \u201cdark money\u201d coming from individuals or groups who do not have to declare their\u00a0donations.<\/p>\n

The amount of untraceable cash moving through\u00a0DT<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0DCF<\/span>\u00a0is likely to be increasing substantially. In 2013, the two groups had their biggest year to date with a combined income of $152m and cash assets of $138m. Donors Trust itself saw income more than double from $46m in 2012 to $103m in 2013 even though the value of grants it handed out remained stable at about $40m each\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

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While the role of\u00a0DT<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0DCF<\/span>\u00a0in financing the climate science denial movement has been known for several years, DeSmog\u2019s investigation reveals for the first time the true scale of untraceable money flowing through the two funds, which share an address in\u00a0Virginia.<\/p>\n

DeSmog\u2019s investigation found just $32 million of donations to the two conservative-aligned funding arms originated with other non-profits that make tax records and details of donations available in public\u00a0documents.<\/p>\n

Both\u00a0DT<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0DCF<\/span>\u00a0have funneled money to high profile advocacy groups that campaign against regulations to cut greenhouse gases and promote fringe and discredited views on climate\u00a0science.<\/p>\n

While Greenpeace analysis reviewed by DeSmog shows\u00a0DT<\/span>\u00a0andDCF<\/span>\u00a0have given $170m over the years to fund other groups blocking climate change action, the source of the Donors’ network income remains largely hidden.<\/p>\n

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Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $479 Million Of Dark Money More than $470 million of cash flowing into a key funding arm of the climate science denial movement in the United States is untraceable, a DeSmog investigation has\u00a0found. Sister organisations\u00a0Donors Trust\u00a0(DT) and\u00a0Donors Capital Fund\u00a0(DCF) declared an income of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[141,992,5389,5393,5390,5392,5391,5394],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-dark-money","tag-dcf","tag-desmog","tag-donors-capital-fund","tag-donors-trust","tag-dt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}