Lambe Foundation KOCH
The Koch family-controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation (CRLF), one of the routine sources of funding for right-wing groups for more than 30 years has dissolved, further limiting what little is publicly known of which groups seeking to change Americans' rights receive money controlled or directed by Charles and David Koch and their operatives.
The foundation formally dissolved in 2013, according to documents filed with the IRS in February 2014 and obtained this month by CMD.
Koch Industries magnate Charles Koch created the foundation in Wichita in the early 1980s with funds from the estate of his friend Claude Lambe. For the past three decades, CRLF has often spent millions annually to provide a regular infusion of cash for groups pushing the agenda favored by Koch. This includes millions of dollars, cumulatively, provided to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), theHeritage Foundation, the Federalist Societyand some state-based think tanksoperating under the State Policy Network (SPN) banner. Greenpeace has calculated that CRLF provided $24,643,414 to groups peddling climate change denial between 1997-2011.
CMD released a major report on SPN in 2013, which detailed the Koch funding of that network. "At least 13 SPN think tanks, not including SPN itself or SPN associate members, have received funding directly from the Koch-controlled foundations," the report noted. Much of this money was via the CRLF. This report is available here: The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government.
The political activities of the Koch brothers have been under growing scrutiny over the past few years. The millions of dollars in grants made via the Koch family-controlled foundations -- such as CRLF -- are subject to public disclosure under the IRS rules. Since little is known about which politically active groups the Kochs support through personal checks or through Koch Industries itself (as a closely held corporation) or its subsidiaries, IRS filings from their foundations have been the primary -- if limited -- window into which groups trying to change U.S. laws or affect U.S. elections they underwrite.
Just the Tip of a Very Large Iceberg
As CMD has documented, the Koch brothers have provided significant secret funding to right-wing groups from their personal accounts and through corporate contributions. Details of this funding have only become widely known when documents from recipients revealing such funding enter the public domain. From one such document, CMD discovered that the Texas Public Policy Foundation received$159,834 directly from Koch Industries in 2010, more than double the $69,788.61 it received from CRLF that year.
Only the grant from CRLF was required to be disclosed. Without that document surfacing, the public would not know that even more Koch-family controlled money was secretly underwriting that "think tank" that was peddling controversial policies. The total amount of money that Koch Industries has used to underwrite such groups, including ALEC, is not fully known.
The National Journal also reported in September 2013 that David Koch himself had provided a $850,000 personal check to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in 2003. Similarly, CMD reported that David Koch provided the Massachusetts SPN think tank Pioneer Institute, with a $125,000 personal check in 2007. Both of these documents were public, although unexpectedly so.
As seems likely, if the Koch brothers, both individually and through Koch Industries, are making similar grants elsewhere, then the size and scope of their influence has been significantly underestimated. The likely impact of CRLF's closing, even if what it demonstrates is just the tip of a very large iceberg, will be that the public knows even less about the Koch brothers' political spending. The foundation closed by transferring more than $2 million to an unspecified "donor-advised fund" within the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, to be distributed at the direction of whomever controls that donor-advised fund.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-surgey/one-of-the-koch-familycon_b_5248878.html
CMD's Jacob Steiner contributed to this report. Nick Surgey is the Research Director for the Center for Media and Democracy, which has joined forces with The Progressive Inc.
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Koch Family Foundations consist of the David H. Koch Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation. [1]
Funding for the foundations comes from the conglomerate Koch Industries, the "nation's largest privately held energy company, with annual revenues of more than $25 billion. ... Koch Industries is now the second largest family-owned business in the U.S., with annual sales of over $20 billion."
"The company is owned by two of the richest men in America," David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, who are described as "reclusive billionaires", who have a combined personal fortune estimated at more than $3 billion and who have emerged as major Republican contributors in recent years. ... Both David and Charles Koch are ranked among the 50 richest people in the country by 'Forbes'."
The Koch brothers control the three family foundations that have "lavished tens of millions of dollars in the past decade on 'free market' advocacy institutions in and around Washington."[2][3]
The foundations are financed via the oil and gas fortunes of Fred C. Koch, a founding member of the John Birch Society. David is a libertarian who "provides a significant amount of funding for the Cato Institute's $4 million annual budget."
Curtis Moore's Rethinking the Think Tanks (subtitled How industry-funded 'experts' twist the environmental debate) appeared in the September/October 2002 issue of Sierra magazine. Moore states that, "The views will seem to be coming from an independent think tank -- the Cato Institute or Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), for example ... behind these groups stands the [Koch] brother's vast fortune."
In fact, Charles Koch is a co-founder of Cato in 1977 and David helped to launch Citizens for a Sound Economy in 1986. This, says Moore, is the brothers simply following in "dad's footsteps: Fred Koch was a charter member of the ultraconservative John Birch Society in 1958."
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Finances
According to their filings with the Internal Revenue Service (available at guidestar.org), the Koch Family Foundations owned combined assets of more than $60 million in 2001 and gave away $9,071,793, almost all of it to libertarian causes:
- The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation had assets of $31,403,724 and gave away $4,589,825.
- The David H. Koch Charitable Foundation had assets of $23,204 and gave away $2,821,022.
- The Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation had assets of $29,237,598 and gave away $1,660,946.
Funding libertarian organizations
The Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation is one of Koch Family Foundations. Several of the organizations in the list below were founded by one of two Koch brothers, Charles G. Koch or David H. Koch to pursue their ideological agenda.
Organizations funded
Below is a list of recipients listing the cumulative amount, unadjusted for inflation, granted by the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation[1]
1) Cato Institute $8,450,000
2) Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation $6,025,375
3) George Mason University $2,311,149
4) George Mason University Foundation, Inc. $2,074,893
6) Heritage Foundation, The $1,004,000
7) Institute for Justice $1,000,000
8) Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment $810,000
9) Reason Foundation, The $642,000
10) Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, The $504,000
12) Institute for Humane Studies $455,000
13) Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy $385,000
14) Washington Legal Foundation $350,000
15) Capital Research Center $340,000
16) Competitive Enterprise Institute $254,460
20) Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc. $190,000
22) National Center for Policy Analysis $175,000
23) Citizens for Congressional Reform Foundation $175,000
24) Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. $125,000
25) American Legislative Exchange Council $120,000
26) Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty $115,000
28) Political Economy Research Center, Inc. $80,000
29) Media Institute $60,000
30) National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship $60,000
31) University of Chicago $59,000
32) Defenders of Property Rights $55,000
33) University of Kansas Endowment Assocation $50,000
36) Texas Public Policy Foundation $44,500
37) Center for Individual Rights, The $40,000
38) Heartland Institute $40,000
39) Texas Justice Foundation $40,000
40) Institute for Policy Innovation $35,000
42) Center of the American Experiment $31,500
43) Atlas Economic Research Foundation $28,500
44) Young America's Foundation $25,000
45) Henry Hazlitt Foundation $25,000
47) Atlantic Legal Foundation $20,000
48) National Taxpayers Union Foundation $20,000
49) Families Against Mandatory Minimums $20,000
50) Philanthropy Roundtable $19,200
51) Free Enterprise Institute $15,000
52) John Locke Foundation $15,000
53) Hudson Institute, Inc. $12,650
54) Alexis de Tocqueville Institution $12,500
55) National Environmental Policy Institute $12,500
56) Washington University $11,500
57) Pacific Legal Foundation $10,000
58) American Council for Capital Formation $10,000
60) Institute for Political Economy $8,000
62) State Policy Network $6,500
64) Fraser Institute, The $5,000
65) Mackinac Center, The $5,000
66) Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation $5,000
68) Institute for Objectivist Studies $5,000
Some additional recipients by amount granted by the Charles G. Koch Foundation http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientsoffunder.php?funderID=9
David H. Koch Charitable Foundation $2,000,000
Fred C. & Mary R. Koch Foundation $1,097,000
Bill of Rights Institute $992,000
Mercatus Center $400,000
Contact
URL: http://www.kochind.com
Related SourceWatch articles
- Conservative foundations
- Foundations and Funders
- Koch Industries
- Oil industry
- Americans for Prosperity (Koch-funded conservative political advocacy group)
- Charles G. Koch
- David H. Koch
External links
- Koch Industries and the Pollution of the Bush White House, Parts I & II; on-line article includes source links.
- "Ari & I; White House Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer related by Russell Mokhiber regarding relationship between White House and Koch Industries, May 3, 2001.
- http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=9
- Koch Family Foundations, Buying a Movement section of People For the American Way website, accessed April 2004.
References
- ↑ Media Matters Action Network Who's Funding the Conservative Movement?, accessed March 1, 2011
- ↑ Media Matters Action Network Who's Funding the Conservative Movement?, accessed March 1, 2011
- ↑ Robert Parry [htp://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002269834 What Wouldn't Bob Dole Do for Koch Oil?], The Nation, Vol. 263, August 26, 1996
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It probably comes as no surprise to you to find out that the Koch Brothers have a vested-interest in opposing meaningful Climate Change legislation -- But did you know that the energy-barron Koch Industries has some big-time help in their mis-information efforts, from a little known guy, by the name of:
Claude R. Lambe ... say Who?
$24,000,000 Big! ... according to Greenpeace:
The Claude R. Lambe Foundation is the dominant financier of organizations taking a more visible, active role in day-to-day efforts to oppose clean energy and climate policy. The Foundation contributed $11.7 million to climate opposition groups since 2005.
The Board of Directors is comprised entirely of Koch family members, senior Koch executives, and staff who serve Koch foundations:
-- Richard Fink - President
-- Logan Moore - Secretary
-- Vonda Holliman - Treasurer
-- Charles G. Koch - Director
-- Elizabeth B. Koch - Director
-- Elizabeth R. Koch - Director
-- Charles C. Koch - Director
Year Total funds provided to front groups
1997 $1,654,875
1998 $1,590,000
1999 $1,374,500
2000 $1,400,000
2001 $1,488,500
2002 $2,099,960
2003 $1,453,320
2004 $1,789,640
2005 $2,720,000
2006 $3,183,030
2007 $3,365,000
2008 $2,439,500
Total $24,558,325
Total funds given out by the Claude R. Lambe Foundation from 2005-2008:
$11,707,530
So who in the world is Claude R. Lambe, besides a big-ticket financier in the Climate Change Denial campaign?
...When exploring the inner working of Charitable Foundations, it helps to "Go to the Source". Since the Koch family is directing the Claude R. Lambe Foundation, maybe their site -- the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation -- will give us a few clues about Lambe ...
Looking at what Foundations say about themselves? That's always a fun ride.
For instance, Did you know that 'Liberty is a Science'?
And that the "Science of Liberty" can be Trademarked !?
Someone never learned to share "their democracy", or play nicely with others, it seems ...
About: Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation was established in 1980 by Charles G. Koch. The mission of the Foundation is to advance social progress and well-being through the development, application, and dissemination of the Science of Liberty™.
History has shown that societies with greater economic freedom have more prosperity and an enhanced quality of life. This observation that a free society is uniquely suited to creating, fostering, and sustaining peace and prosperity is fundamental to the Science of Liberty.
OK, that piqued my curiosity. I like ... "Science" ... I like "Liberty" ...
What is this New Agey concept about? It seem to be seriously motivating Charles Koch in his Empire building.
Digging a little more, uncovered this little gem ...
Market Process Analysis and the Science of Liberty
Acceptance remarks by Charles G. Koch Chairman and CEO, Koch Industries, Inc.
2005 Herman W. Lay Memorial Award recipient
The Association of Private Enterprise Education
Orlando, Florida -- April 3, 2005
Charles G. Koch:
And that is the subject of my remarks: How to bring about the free society by applying Market Process Analysis and the Science of Liberty®.
[...]
Three sets of experiences over the last 40 years have led me to understand the need forMPA [Market Process Analysis] and, more broadly, the Science of Liberty, to advance the free society:
- The lack of success of free-market economists in addressing problems in mixed economies.
2. Our lack of success in constraining growth in government.
3. Our success in applying MBM in KII.
[MBM = Market Based Management® ... Yeah! more Trademarks. Do they have a Franchise opportunity? ]
[KII = Koch Industries, Inc.]
The Science of Liberty -- the study and practice of sustainably advancing liberty to create prosperity and social progress -- involves much more than studying why free societies are wealthy and un-free societies are poor.
[...]
In MBM, one of the concepts we have used to great benefit is Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction. Creative destruction and the other concepts taken from MPA guide everything we do.
[...]
Using the same assumptions, we have grown more than 1,400-fold, or 14 times the growth of the market. How? By developing and applying MBM.
We have found that MBM can work anywhere, even at our ranches.
[...]
With a few exceptions, organizations advocating the free society have failed to apply market concepts internally. During my 40 years in this effort, I’ve constantly been taken aback by market advocates’ lack of recognition that maintaining the status quo results in the loss of effectiveness.
OK, near as I can tell the Science of Liberty® and Market Based Management® has at its mission the Goal of making insane Profits [1400-fold compared to everyone else] using the little-discussed economic principles of "Creative Destruction".
Glenn Beck has been known to advocate for the Creative Destruction of Economies -- but as Beck puts it, Free-Market America is about "letting people Sink or Swim on their own" ...
Things Go Better with Koch -- so says the Beckster
by jamess -- Jan 15, 2011
I guess "Economically Sinking" (ie. "Drowning") takes care of the Destruction-side of Equation -- "Voodoo Economics" Move Over, there's a new Corporate Scam in Town!
But, Who's going to step in and "Creatively" fill that void left behind?
How about that reclusive Claude R. Lambe guy? Maybe that's where he fits in.
Maybe HE is putting People, BACK to Work?
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
Koch Family Foundations consist of the David H. Koch Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.
[...]
According to their filings with the Internal Revenue Service (available at guidestar.org), the Koch Family Foundations owned combined assets of more than $60 million in 2001 and gave away $9,071,793, almost all of it to libertarian causes:
-- The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation had assets of $31,403,724 and gave away $4,589,825.
-- The David H. Koch Charitable Foundation had assets of $23,204 and gave away $2,821,022.
-- The Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation had assets of $29,237,598 and gave away $1,660,946.
Below is a list of recipients listing the cumulative amount, unadjusted for inflation,granted by the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation[1]
1) Cato Institute - $8,450,000
2) Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation - $6,025,375
3) George Mason University - $2,311,149
4) George Mason University Foundation, Inc. - $2,074,893
6) Heritage Foundation, The - $1,004,000
7) Institute for Justice - $1,000,000
8) Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment - $810,000
9) Reason Foundation, The - $642,000
10) Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, The - $504,000
12) Institute for Humane Studies - $455,000
13)Pacific Research Institutefor Public Policy - $385,000
14) Washington Legal Foundation - $350,000
15) Capital Research Center - $340,000
16) Competitive Enterprise Institute - $254,460
20) Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc. - $190,000
22) National Center for Policy Analysis - $175,000
23) Citizens for Congressional Reform Foundation - $175,000
24) Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. - $125,000
25) American Legislative Exchange Council - $120,000
26) Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty - $115,000
28) Political Economy Research Center, Inc. - $80,000
29) Media Institute - $60,000
30) National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship - $60,000
[... over 40 more]
WTG! Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation -- your "charitable giving" has "created" quite a "footprint" on the National Dialog stage (a $29 Million dollar imprint) -- ALL without ever leaving the comfort of your chair.
Oh all the Conservative Foundations and Think Tanks that Lambe keeps in Business ... Who says America has an Employment problem, eh Claude?
Thanks to The Heritage Foundation, Tea Party Advocates have something to say, as they go about "Creatively Destroying" America:
The Foundry - by Rory Cooper -- Apr 3, 2009
DON’T BORROW, SPEND, AND TAX AWAY OUR FUTURE
The President’s Plan
-- Blames Bush:
-- Increases Spending, Again:
-- Expands Government:
-- Leaves Deficits:
-- Cuts Defense:
-- Puts Government in Charge:
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes
--Energy Taxes:
-- Oil and Gas Taxes:
-- Excise Taxes: Are [Excise Taxes really a problem? ]
-- Death Taxes:
-- Tobacco Taxes:
There Are Alternatives
-- A Path to American Prosperity:
-- Lower Taxes:
Who is Rory Cooper?
I hope he's paid well for his Tea Party "Talking Point" insights -- Move Over Frank Luntz!
Rory Cooper is Director of Strategic Communications at The Heritage Foundation. In this position, Cooper coordinates the think tank’s external message and internal communications, manages its entire digital communications and social media portfolios, and develops new media partnerships. Cooper also serves as the executive editor for The Foundry, the conservative policy news blog at Heritage.
Thanks to the "Reason Foundation", a Libertarian Think Tank, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, now has a "plausible plan" for "Creatively Destroying" a great many Public Sector Careers in his State (aka. State Government Privatization). Tea Party Governors Kasich, Scott, Walker ARE busy taking Notes.
Thanks to Americans for Prosperity (also on Claude R. Lambe's Benefactor list) and thanks to The Heritage Foundation -- we have a well coordinated plan to "Creatively Destroy" any attempts to build a Clean, Green, Energy Future:
The Koch Brothers Million(s) Dollar effort to Halt Progress
by jamess -- Sep 18, 2010
No worries though, because as David Koch tells the Children, "we have seen worse Climate Changes in the Past" -- he tells us, that the Human Race will "Creatively Adapt". Climate Change, people? No Problem! Be Wealthy, instead.
David Koch on Global Warming: "Don't Worry, Humans will Adapt." Priceless.
by jamess -- Feb 21, 2011
But Back to Claude R. Lambe -- surely there is more to this man than his Charitable Checkbook?
Well according to MediaMatters there is ... much, much more than meets the eye:
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
Year Assets Revenue Grants Out Total Expenses
2008 $9,970,092 $791,350 $2,560,300 $2,605,564
2007 $13,031,981 $2,068,931 $4,206,140 $4,311,400
2006 $16,191,442 $773,585 $4,262,205 $4,338,811
2005 $18,872,126 $346,874 $3,551,020 $3,869,727
2004 $21,829,353 $773,841 $2,615,640 $3,187,110
2003 $23,604,654 $264,598 $2,065,345 $2,470,364
2002 $25,724,806 -$3,454,725 $2,238,810 $2,653,521
2001 $29,237,598 -$1,157,573 $1,660,946 $2,119,911
2000 $34,023,335 $2,875,952 $1,622,000 $2,039,752
1998 $33,441,753 $7,794,829 $2,096,500 $2,510,532
1997 $30,871,535 $4,010,582 $2,417,375 $2,726,003
1996 $27,532,917 $4,183,372 $2,947,325 $3,255,064
OK ...So Claude R. Lambe goes way back to the mid 90's -- But who is he?
Fortunately Charles Koch let it slip way back in 1997 during another one of his famously long boring Libertarian speeches ...
Based on a speech given by Charles Koch
at an Institute for Humane Studies Research Colloquium
January 11, 1997
Charles Koch:
In 1982, the year after Claude Lambe died, WE established the Claude R. Lambe (CRL) Fellowship Program. Claude was a close family friend who left his estate under my care. He had a strong interest in both the free society and young people, so the Fellowship Program seemed a natural.
Finally!
The Answer: the Claude R. Lambe Foundation is simply another "Front Group" for Koch Industries. Lambe is a specter, a memory, a cover. Just another "Death-Tax refugee" who found a good home.
Surprise, Surprise!
Hmmmm!? "Lambe" ... it does sound innocuous, doesn't it? Nothing to see here, People ... it's Charity.
Claude R. Lambe a "free market" leader among men -- who's legacy is STILL 'Creative Destroying' the "General Welfare" of America, long after he's gone.
It must come in handy for Koch Industries to have such a Front Group, when they really have to do some "dirty work" to do ... don't you think. Handy for covering up tracks.
Like in their recent efforts to make the Privatization of America seem ...
Necessary, seem Needed ... to seem Normal.
Privatization "Talking Points" rationale provided by the Lambe-funded "Reason Foundation". Seems innocuous enough. Start Dismantling New Jersey! Other States, get in line.
Or better yet, ask the Claude R. Lambe Foundation er, The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation WHAT THEY, can DO for you. To help make your "Destroying of Public Sector Careers" that much easier.
I'm sure they got a few "Think Tank" studies, they can steer you to, Just ask Ohio GovernorKasich, how helpful Koch Groups they can be.
Afterall the specter of Tea Party anger and rage -- can cover up a multitude of Back-office legislating. Nice distraction, if you can afford it.
I wonder if Koch Industries will ever "pull" Tea Party Funding once their "play-acting influence", is no longer needed?
Tell them it's time for them to "sink or swim" ...
Time to "learn to swim with the sharks", or else learn to "become 'fish food'" ?
No worries, They'll Adapt -- or so David Koch will pay somebody, to tell them ...
That's assuming he can find anyone, who really needs the "Creative" Work !?
Updated by jamess at Sun Mar 6, 2011, 04:53:15 PM
A commenter mentions that they still "Don't Know WHO Claude R Lambe is?" -- after reading the Diary.
Which was kind of the point -- his Bio is very hard to track down, given the extent of his lasting influence. Here if the most "definitive" Bio reference I could find for Mr Lambe:
The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
A CounterPunch Investigation
By PAM MARTENS -- October 19, 2010
Claude Lambe was a real estate developer and insurance broker in Kansas. He invested in a company formed by Fred Koch in 1934, the Buffalo Oil Corporation. Lambe’s wife, Pauline, died in 1976; Lambe died in 1981. According to a Koch Industries publication, Charles Koch was left in charge of Lambe’s estate. Charles Koch and his wife, Elizabeth, serve as Directors on the Foundation’s board. Hopefully, Lambe wanted to fund all of these right wing causes because that’s what his foundation has been doing since his death.