Feb 09, 2017 · The foundation gave at least $326,000 to New York Presbyterian Hospital and $250,750 to its sister institution, the Hospital for Special Surgery, which is also based in New York City. The Trump...
The Donald J. Trump Foundation was established in 1988, with a mission to make Mr. Trump appear charitable by distributing some of his wealth to charitable causes, giving other people's...
Sep 24, 2016 · In addition to confirming that Trump didn’t donate a penny to his foundation from 2009 to 2014, the tax returns show a change in the foundation’s outlays. For …
Feb 17, 2022 · Grants made by Donald J. Trump are listed below. Twenty-five thousand dollars were raised by the United Way of New York City. $117k in funding from Operation Smile. The Dana Farber Cancer Institute...
The Donald J. Trump Foundation was a New York-based tax-exempt private foundation formed in 1988 by Donald Trump and existed until its court-ordered and court-supervised dissolution in 2019. It was formed by Trump to receive his share of the royalties from his book Trump: The Art of the Deal, as well as donations from outsiders, to be applied to charitable causes. Trump served as its president until January 2017, three days after his inauguration as U.S. President. Trump's three adult children — Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. — all served on the board, which had not met after 1999. Trump stopped contributing to the foundation in 2008, but continued to solicit donations.
Trump paid $100,000 of Trump Foundation funds in 2012 to Reverend Franklin Graham 's Billy Graham Evangelical Association. NBC News has called Graham "an early ally" of Trump. "The more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, 'You know, maybe the guy's right,'" Graham had told ABC News in 2011. In October 2016 Graham revealed to the Charlotte Observer that in 2012 he had instructed Trump to make the $100,000 donation, and that the money was used to pay for full-page ads urging voters to support candidates in the 2012 presidential election who supported "biblical values". The The Observer has suggested the timing and tone of the ads indicate they were placed in support of Mitt Romney 's campaign.
The Trump Foundation is responsible by law for ensuring that any grant it makes to another private foundation is used strictly for charitable purposes. To fulfill this IRS "expenditure responsibility" the foundation is required to attach "full and detailed" reports describing the use of the grant money to its IRS 990 tax return for each year a grant to a private foundation is made. Trump Foundation tax returns show that it failed to do this for all twenty of the grants it made to private foundations during the period of 2005 through 2014. Such grants in this period, which total at least $488,500, could be subject to significant fines and penalties.
Additionally, Trump was required to reimburse $11,525 to the foundation, which was added to $1,797,598.30 already in the foundation's bank account.
Trump served as its president until January 2017, three days after his inauguration as U.S. President. Trump's three adult children — Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. — all served on the board, which had not met after 1999. Trump stopped contributing to the foundation in 2008, but continued to solicit donations.
Under New York State law, a not-for-profit foundation must register as a "7A Charitable Organization" if it plans to solicit outside donations over $25,000 in any year. The Trump Foundation was initially registered as a private foundation set up solely to receive his own personal donations. As long as it was private and did not solicit outside funds, it did not have to file annual audited reports with the New York State Charities Bureau. However, records show that Trump began soliciting donations at least as early as 2004 and possibly as early as 1989.
In 2005 Norwegian Cruise Line donated $100,000 in lieu of an appearance fee for Melania Trump. In 2006, People magazine donated $150,000 for an exclusive right to publish baby photos of Barron Trump. In 2011 Comedy Central donated $400,000 for Trump's appearance in a broadcast comedy roast of himself.
The Post has delivered other revelations. At the end of August, Fahrenthold reported that the Trump Foundation had violated tax laws in 2013 by making a $25,000 political donation to Pam Bondi, the attorney general of Florida.
As far back as the early nineteen-nineties, the investigative reporter David Cay Johnston was following up on Trump’s claims, calling up dozens of charities that Trump said he’d given money to. Johnston had difficulty confirming some of the payments.
In addition to confirming that Trump didn’t donate a penny to his foundation from 2009 to 2014, the tax returns show a change in the foundation’s outlays. For years, many of the foundation’s biggest contributions went to well-known charities, such as the Red Cross, the American Cancer Foundation, and various hospitals.
In 2012, $100,000 went to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which is now run by Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s conservative son. In 2013, $50,000 went to the American Conservative Union Foundation, part of the conservative lobbying group that William F. Buckley, Jr., founded.
Regardless, charities aren’t allowed to make political donations. Trump’s aides said the payment from the foundation was the result of an administrative error, and that the money was supposed to have come from Trump’s personal account. Earlier this year, the foundation paid a $2,500 penalty to the I.R.S.
But the Post also pointed out that Trump hadn’t given any of his own money to the Trump Foundation since 2008 —almost all of its funding came from other people, including some of his business associates.
Trump donated $1 Million to get the New York’s Vietnam Veterans Plaza built. He also gave $175,000 for a 50th anniversary of the end of WWII parade. And he gave a retired staff sergeant who was down on his luck a tour of Trump Tower, took him for lunch and then handed him a check for $10,000 to jump start his education.
Trump was the First Recipient of the President’s Medal Award from the Freedom Foundation to Honor Business Leaders Active in Youth Programs. Donald Trump Donates $100,000 to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Preservation Easements at his Mar-a-Lago Club.
2006. Immediately after the Palm Beach Police Foundation was founded in Nov 2006, Trump was a honorary ball committee member of their first event. Trump Contributes Items to the Celebrity Art Auction for the Charity Quantum House. Trump Donates $60K to the Jimmy Fund Charity to Fight Children’s Cancer.
Donald Trump donated to Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief, which raised money for victims of Hurricane Katrina, in the mid 2000’s. Trump Donates Trump Water to Hurricane Katrina Victims. Donald Trump Doodles the NYC Skyline for Charity Auction Held by Pitney Bowes to Promote Worldwide Literacy.
During ceremony honoring Vietnam Veterans, Trump was honored by a Vietnam Vet with his Prisoner of War bracelet. Trump had a copy made of Gold and sent it to the Vet. Trump Finished Renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget. The Profits Went to Homeless and AIDS Charities.
President Donald Trump has long boasted of his philanthropy, but the overwhelming bulk of his charitable tax deductions have come from agreeing not to develop land, in some instances after he had given up on plans to do so, according to a New York Times analysis of his tax returns, and he reportedly has reneged on several pledges to donate to charity and sped up his giving after launching his presidential campaign..
Trump has reported $130 million in charitable giving on his tax returns since 2005, but $119.3 million came from easements he signed with conservation groups in which he agreed not to develop three plots of land, the Times reported, two of which he had plans for that had been stymied, as well as from a donation of land he had failed to develop to New York State for a park..
60%. That’s the share of likely voters in a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday who said Trump does not have a sense of decency, with 37% saying he does. Those numbers were flipped for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, with 64% saying he does have a sense of decency and 30% saying he does not.
Trump is being investigated by New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly overvaluing his assets to his lenders and on his tax returns.
Accusations against Trump and his foundation include the following:
In a June 2018 petition filed by the office of the New York attorney general, it was explained that:
"... none of the Foundation's expenditures or activities were approved by its Board of Directors. The investigation found that the Board existed in name only: it did not meet after 1999; it did not set policy or criteria for choosing grant recipients, and it did not approve of any grants. Mr. Trum…
Donald Trump formed the Donald J. Trump Foundation in 1988 as a private foundation. Its initial stated purpose was to distribute proceeds from Trump's book,Trump: The Art of the Deal, to charitable causes. Like many other private foundations, the Trump Foundation conducted no charitable programs of its own; instead granting money to other tax-exempt organizations.
The foundation was based at The Trump Organization in New York Cityand had no paid staff or d…
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, David Fahrenthold of The Washington Postbegan looking into Trump's history of charitable giving. In January 2016, Trump held a fundraiser for veterans' causes in lieu of appearing at a televised Republican debate. He claimed that the event raised $6 million, including $1 million of his own money. Fahrenthold began his investigation by attempting to verify the receipt and disbursal of the $6 million. All donations were supposed to have gone in…
In September and October 2016 there were several legal actions and complaints filed against the Trump Foundation. The former head of the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Exempt Organizations Division Marc Owens told The Washington Post regarding the various allegations against the foundation: "This is so bizarre, this laundry list of issues ... It's the first time I've ever seen this, and I've been doing this for 25 years in the IRS, and 40 years total."
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