Mercer Family Foundation

The Mercer Family Foundation is a private grant-making foundation in the United States. As of 2013, it had $37 million in assets.[3] The foundation is run by Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.[4][5]

Mercer Family Foundation
FounderRobert Mercer
TypeCharitable foundation
HeadquartersNew York, New York
Director
Rebekah Mercer[1]
Disbursements$13,492,358 (2013)[2]
Websitemercerfamilyfoundation.org

Under Rebekah’s leadership, the family foundation invested about $70 million into conservative causes between 2009 and 2014.[6] The foundation has also donated to groups that reject the scientific consensus on climate change.[7]

Activities

The foundation's main interests are in the fields of public policy, higher education, and science.[8] The foundation has donated to organizations and institutions including the Heritage Foundation, Illinois Policy Institute, Heartland Institute, and SUNY Stony Brook.[9] Mercer provides funding to the Home Depot Foundation, whose mission is to "improve the homes and lives of U.S. military veterans and their families."[8]

References
  1. Delevingne, Lawrence (November 8, 2014). "Have Mercer! The money man who helped the GOP win". CNBC. Archived from the original on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  2. "IRS Form 990 2013" (PDF). GuideStar. Internal Revenue Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  3. Sellers, Frances (October 6, 2015). "How a reclusive computer programmer became a GOP money powerhouse". Washington Post. New York. Archived from the original on October 16, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  4. "The Man Who Out-Koched the Kochs". Bloomberg. New York. October 22, 2014. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  5. Johnson, Eliana (April 8, 2015). "Meet Ted Cruz's Billionaire Donors". National Review. Archived from the original on 1 November 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  6. Vicky Ward (March 17, 2017). "The blow-it-all-up billionaires; When politicians take money from megadonors, there are strings attached. But with the reclusive duo who propelled Trump into the White House, there's a fuse". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017. According to The Washington Post, the family donated $35 million to conservative think tanks and at least to $36.5 million to individual GOP races.
  7. "The Mercers, Trump mega-donors, back group that casts doubt on climate science". The Washington Post. 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-04-23.
  8. Adeniji, Ade (April 14, 2015). "Meet the New Best Friend of Conservative Policy Groups: Robert Mercer". Inside Philanthropy. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  9. "Robert Mercer". Inside Philanthropy. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
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