As part of ongoing updates to Mediamouse.org’s Far Right in West Michigan database, we have updated the listing for the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation. According to the most recent IRS records available, the foundation donated thousands of dollars to religious right and other rightwing organizations in 2006. Some of these organizations include:
* The Acton Institute–a rightwing economic “think-tank” here in Grand Rapids received $100,000.
* The Alliance Defense Fund, a religious right legal group, received $35,000.
* The Freemont, Michigan based American Decency Association received $5,000.
* The American Family Association received $5,000.
* The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is most well known for downplaying the existence of global warming, received $5,000.
* Concerned Women of America, a prominent religious right organization, received $1,000.
* The Council for National Policy, a secretive organization that has historically acted as a venue for coordinating strategies across the religious right, received $45,500.
* The Grand Rapids, Michigan based Education Freedom Fund received $100,000.
* The Family Research Council received $168,500.
* The Free Congress Foundation received $10,000.
* The Muskegon, Michigan based Gospel Communications International received $300,000.
* The Midland, Michigan based Mackinac Center for Public Policy received $25,000.
* The Michigan Family Forum received 2006.
The Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation is operated by Elsa Prince, her son Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater), Betsy DeVos, and Edgar and Elsa Prince’s other children. The foundation has funded religious right organizations for years and has been particularly important in providing support for the Family Research Council.
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- Prominent West Michigan Religious Right Activist Funding Anti-Gay Marriage Initiative in California
- Holland’s Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation Major Local and National Supporter of the Religious Right
- Prince Connected Entities Funded Anti-Gay Marriage Proposition in Final Months of the Campaign
- Erik Prince and his Family Significant Backers of Republican Politicians from Michigan
- Religious Right Funding Increases
