Those committee members receiving DeVos family contributions were the following, according to MCFN's tracking: Sen. Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) ($43,200); Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) ($70,200); Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) ($1,000) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) ($43,200); Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) ($49,200); and Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) ($24,300).
Dec 01, 2016 · Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina: Betsy DeVos gave Burr $5,400 for the 2016 election, according to Federal Election Commission records. (That represents the maximum allowable contribution from...
Jan 12, 2017 · CAP also reported that five Senate education committee members got a total of $254,400 from the DeVos family in direct donations, including: Burr …
The DeVos family directly provided about 18 percent of the money the House Republican Campaign Committee had raised as of Oct. 20. As for DeVos giving in other states the last two years, family members gave $95,000 to Eric Holcomb, Indiana’s GOP candidate for governor, and $100,000 to Eric Greitens, Missouri’s GOP candidate for governor.
Dan DeVos and his designer wife Pamella Rolland DeVos donated $7.1 million in 2013. The Daniel and Pamella DeVos Foundation had assets of $10.58 million at the end of that year, according to documents filed with the IRS.
Three of the five DeVos family foundations made donations to the Heritage Foundation , a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. in 2013. Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation gave $1 million; Doug and Maria gave $25,000; Dick and Betsy gave $5,000.
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation's biggest donation in 2013 was $7.5 million to King's College, a small but top conservative college housed in the Empire State Building in New York City. Richard and Helen DeVos joined the college's board of trustees in 2013, and the college's Freedom Award is named after the couple.
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation gave $3 million to GVSU in 2013. Long before two of his grandkids attended the Grand Rapids area public university, Rich was GVSU's biggest donor and a major fundraiser. His son Doug also gave GVSU $598,566 that year.
In 2013, Doug and Maria gave $1,265,040 to Believe 2 Become, a neighborhood initiative designed to help Grand Rapids children succeed in school, work and life. One of the group's efforts was a comprehensive program to prepare more children in area neighborhoods for kindergarten.
The Douglas and Maria DeVos Foundation gave $17.87 million in donations in 2013. At the end of that year, the foundation had assets of $99.47 million, according to documents filed with the IRS. The foundation made 155 donations, ranging from $300 to $3.2 million.
The National Consitution Center received a total of $3.2 million from Rich DeVos and his son Doug DeVos in 2013. The Amway cofounder, who is a founding board member of the non-paristan history museum in Philadelphia, gave $1.8 million. His youngest son, now the president of Amway and the chairman of the museum, gave $1.4 million.
The DeVoses are decades-long supporters of Christian nonprofits that provide services to the city's poorest residents . DeVos money has long supported Degage Ministries via the DeVos siblings' foundations. Likewise, Rich and Helen DeVos, through their foundation, have been longtime supporters of Mel Trotter Ministries.
The five foundations target their giving primarily to West Michigan where the elder DeVos co-founded the direct selling giant Amway in his Ada basement with best friend Jay Van Andel in 1959.
The DeVos name adorns some of West Michigan's best known buildings, including the children's hospital, convention center and GVSU's downtown campus center. While Rich DeVos is said to prefer funding building projects, the families' donations go beyond brick and mortar.
Pamella DeVos, the force behind Pamella Roland fashion designs, sits on the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which resulted in the Manhattan museum loaning Robert Rauschenberg's "Synapsis Shuffle" to the Grand Rapids Art Museum in 2012.