Meyerson, A

2. Heartland Financials (H.1) is augmented with data from the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);">February Heartland Exposed documents</a>. It was known that much of <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);">Heartland Institute</a>'s funding came via DONORS, and that there was one large donor, speculated by some to be reclusive Chicago businessman <a href="http://deepclimate.org/2012/02/20/heartlands-anonymous-donor/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);">Barre Seid</a>. The combination of IRS Form 990s, February documents, and other information proves his identity, as the numbers simply do not work otherwise. (H.1.4-1). More detail on donations (H.1.5) shows explicit funding of climate anti-science activities whose tax-free status seems dubious. 3. DONORS TRUST (and DONORS CAPITAL FUND) have been studied in more detail. Robert Brulle found another Charles Koch fund, Knowledge and Progress, which seems to give money only to DONORS. Added to the others he controls (Charles Koch and Claude Lambe), money can flow through three separate funds. Then some of it goes through DONORS TRUST and DONORS CAPITAL FUND, which anonymize it, as Whitney Ball actually writes the checks. Some "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/new-yorker-exposes-koch-industries-kochtopus-behind-tea-party-and-climate-denial-machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);">Kochtopus</a>" tentacles are difficult to see. Some of this tax-advantaged money lands at George Mason University, including its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercatus_Center" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);">Mercatus Center</a> or even better <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Humane_Studies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);">Institute for Humane Studies</a> ... Chaired by Charles Koch. See<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/see-no-evil-speak-little-truth-break-rules-blame-others" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);"> Funding</a> and A.5-A.6 in the report there. DONORS' grants have been analyzed in detail (I.4). Of ~500 "charities" examined 2002-2010, the Top 40 (I.4.2-1) got 66% of the total, and of that $205M, all but $43M went to policy organizations, such as the American Enterprise Institute ($17M) Heartland Institute ($14M), or Americans for Prosperity Foundation ($11M). About 75% of the $311M given over those 9 years went to policy groups, all tax-free, with real donors anonymized. They must like this, as 2007-2010 accounted for $265M, following a big expansion in 2007. Finally, in "Whitney Ball, her brother and her father" (I.5) some strange history is explored. Barre Seid funds and Chairs the Chicago Freedom Trust, C/O John Ball (Whitney's brother), located in Salt Lake City. Trustees include Whitney Ball and Adam Myerson, who Chairs DONORS CAPITAL FUND. In tracking all this, I also found discussion of their father, a lawyer whose repeated financial manipulations lost him the right to practice law in West Virginia.