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<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en"><p><b>TC4 Trust</b>

is a now inoperative 501(c)(4) non-profit organization founded in 2009.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the group's stated

purposed was "[g]rant making, research, analyze, report on, make

publicly available matters useful and beneficial to the community, which

focus on the advancement of free markets, liberty and individual

freedoms."<sup id="cite_ref-Voter_Database_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_note-Voter_Database-0">[1]</a></sup> In it's first two years of operation, TC4 distributed nearly 80% of its $46.3 million in revenues to other groups.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup></p>

<h2>Contents</h2>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#Ties_to_Koch_Brothers"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Ties to Koch Brothers</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#Personnel"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#Contact_Information"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Contact Information</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li></ul>

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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Ties_to_Koch_Brothers">Ties to Koch Brothers</span></h2>

<p>In the fiscal year 2009-2010, TC4 made a grant of $2.5 million to Themis Trust, an organization supporting the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" title="Koch brothers" class="mw-redirect">Koch brothers</a>' <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Themis_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Themis Project (page does not exist)">Themis</a>

voter database project. Additional funding was channeled from TC4 to

Themis affiliated organizations including $2.5 million to STN LLC and

$1.8 million to DAS MGR LLC. TC4 Trust funded other conservative

organizations including PRDIST LLC (a subsidiary of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity">Americans for Prosperity</a>), POFN LLC (an affiliate of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Notice" title="Public Notice">Public Notice</a>), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/60_Plus_Association" title="60 Plus Association">60 Plus Association</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Concerned_Women_for_America" title="Concerned Women for America">Concerned Women for America</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_Against_Government_Waste" title="Citizens Against Government Waste">Citizens Against Government Waste</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Commitment" title="American Commitment">American Commitment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Voter_Database_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_note-Voter_Database-0">[1]</a></sup></p>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel">Personnel</span></h2>

<p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gretchen_Hamel" title="Gretchen Hamel">Gretchen Hamel</a> was listed on TC4 tax forms as the "Program Leader" as well as a trustee. Hamel is also the executive director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Notice" title="Public Notice">Public Notice</a>, a conservative think-tank.<sup id="cite_ref-Voter_Database_0-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_note-Voter_Database-0">[1]</a></sup></p>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Information">Contact Information</span></h2>

<p>TC4 Trust

5810 Kingstowne Ctr

Alexandria, VA 22315
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-Voter_Database-0">↑ <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_ref-Voter_Database_0-0">1.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_ref-Voter_Database_0-1">1.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_ref-Voter_Database_0-2">1.2</a></sup> <span class="reference-text">Viveca Novak, Robert Maguire and Russ Choma, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/12/nonprofit-funneled-money-to-kochs-voter-database-effort-other-conservative-groups.html">Exclusive: Nonprofit Funneled Money to Kochs' Voter Database Effort, Other Conservative Groups</a>, Center for Responsive Politics, December 21, 2012.</span></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/TC4_Trust#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">Robert Maguire and Viveca Novak, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/04/shadow-money-magic-five-easy-steps.html">Shadow Money Magic: Five Easy Steps That Let You Play Big in Politics, Hide Your Donors and Game the IRS</a>, Center for Responsive Politics, April 15, 2013.</span></li></ol>

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    <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Dark_money" title="Category:Dark money">Dark money</a></li></ul></div></div><p>...<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ravel’s commission has already forced the disclosure that, before the

$11 million made its way from an Arizona nonprofit called Americans for

Responsible Leadership (the originally disclosed donor) to the

California committee, it <a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2013/02/17/cppr_11m_cfppc_110512.html" target="blank">passed from a Virginia-based nonprofit</a> called Americans for Job Security <a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2013/02/17/amersforrespleadership_11m_cfppc_110512.html" target="blank">to an Arizona 501(c)4</a> called the Center to Protect Patients Rights.

The latter group, run by the Kochs’ top ad man, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sean Noble, has

played a key role in steering money to other Koch-backed groups, along

with another mysterious 501(c)4 group called <font color="#FF0000">TC4 Trust.</font></span>

Between 2009 and 2011 (the most recent years for which the groups’

tax returns were accessible), the two nonprofits combined to steer more

than $75 million to Koch-linked groups including $18.1 million to the 60

Plus Association, $8 million to Public Notice and its subsidiaries,

$7.1 million to American Commitment, $6.8 million to Themis and its

subsidiaries, and $500,000 to Generation Opportunity. They also donated

$4.8 million to Americans for Job Security and $900,000 to Americans for

Responsible Leadership.

Americans for Responsible Leadership — which is <a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2013/02/17/torchinsky_amersforrespldrshp_response_102412.html" target="_blank">represented by the lawyer</a>

for Americans for Prosperity, American Commitment, the Center to

Protect Patients Rights and other Koch-backed groups — contends that

Ravel’s commission is ��bowing to political pressure,�� ignoring the

Supreme Court’s 2010 <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31786.html" target="_blank"><em>Citizens United</em> decision</a> allowing unlimited corporate political expenditures and trying to scare the group and its donors.

The commission’s efforts “utterly discount the legitimate interest

that donors to non-profits have in maintaining their privacy” and have

had a “deterrent effect on the activities of both ARL and its donors,��

wrote Americans for Responsible Leadership in a <a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2013/02/17/amersforrespldrshp_response-noexhbts_102512.html" target="_blank">legal brief </a>filed just before the election.

Beyond the California investigation, Noble has come under scrutiny in

the brothers’ post-election audit, sources say. His consulting firm, DC

London, though technically independent, is widely regarded as almost a

subsidiary of the Koch political operation. Its performance in 2012,

when it handled advertising and other paid media for a number of the

groups that get their cash through the Center to Protect Patients Rights

and TC4 Trust, was seen as a weak link by some in Koch World.

Since the election, Gentry, who runs the donor seminars, has sent

several emails to a list of operatives at other conservative groups

asking them to study various aspects of Obama’s advertising and

messaging strategies, becoming captivated this year with a 2012 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmJ4gIa8ek" target="_blank">ad featuring Jennifer Lopez</a>, whom he called “the #1 public celebrity for young Latinas.”

It created “peer pressure to the target audience that if they don’t

join their fellow Latinos in ‘getting Obama’s back,’ then they will not

be part of the in-crowd,�� he wrote....

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