Amway founder Richard "Rich" Marvin DeVos Sr. | spouse Helen DeVos (née Van Wesep; mother-in-law to Betsy DeVos)
Former Amway CEO Richard Marvin "Dick" DeVos Jr., son of Richard and Helen DeVos | spouse Betsy DeVos
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (née Prince), daughter of Family Research Council co-Founder Edgar Prince (also the founder of the Prince Corporation) | brother Erik Prince, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, founder of Blackwater USA (now Academi).
Richard DeVos Sr. -----|
1926-2018 |
$5.4 billion |----- Richard DeVos Jr. -----|
| 1955- |
Helen DeVos -----------| |
née Van Wesep |
1927-2017 |
|
|
Edgar Prince ----------| |
1931-1995 |----- Betsy DeVos -----------|
billionaire [note 1] | née Betsy Prince
| 1958-
|
|----- Erik Prince
Elsa Prince------------| 1969-
née Elsa Zwiep
1. Edgar Prince died in 1995; his company was sold in 2006
for $1.35 billion (now a unit of Johnson Controls).
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The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation is an American conservative non-profit organization and grant-making body formed in 1970. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation was founded by Richard DeVos Sr., co-Founder of the multi-level marketing company Amway, and former finance chair of the Republican National Committee, and his wife Helen DeVos.
As of 2014, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation had $54.9 million in assets. It is one of five non-profit organizations established and operated by the DeVos family; the others, all founded by siblings of Richard DeVos Jr., include the:
In 2013, the DeVos family donated a total of $90.9 million, with 48 percent going to education, 27 percent to health and community services, 13 percent to churches or faith-based organizations, and 12 percent to arts and culture. Two-thirds of the family's donations were made to organizations based in the State of Michigan (U.S.A.).
In 2014, the family donated $94 million across education (45 percent); health and community services (35 percent); arts and culture (15 percent); and churches or faith-based organizations (5 percent). A total of 58 percent of the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation's 2014 giving was to Michigan-based organizations.
In 2011, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation provided $3 million to Koch-linked Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group.
From 2009 to 2010, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation donated $2.5 million to the donor-advised fund DonorsTrust.
Other recipients of funding from the DeVos Foundation have included the:
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation is a major patron of churches, ministries, Christian schools, and Christian advocacy groups. The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation has provided substantial funding to various conservative, evangelical Christian organizations including:
The DeVos Foundation has also donated to Bethany Christian Services, and in 2006 the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation donated $540,000 to Focus on the Family. The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation has also provided $5 million in support to the ministry of D. James Kennedy.
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation also provides funding to various local social service agencies in West Michigan, including ICCF, the Literacy Center of West Michigan, and Home Repair Services. Other organizations that have received donations from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation include the Scripps Research Institute, the OneOrlando Fund, and the National Constitution Center.
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[Transphobe] Betsy DeVos was listed for many years on IRS form Form 990s as Vice President of the Prince Foundation (formerly called the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation).
However, Betsy DeVos testified under oath in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing -- in response to Senator Maggie Hassan's questions -- that she had nothing to do with the contributions made by her mother [Elsa Prince]'s foundation to conservative advocacy groups including Focus on the Family, and the Family Research Council.
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The Prince Foundation, formerly known as the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation, is a charitable foundation that was founded in 1979 and is based in Holland, Michigan. It is a major financial supporter of the conservative Christian causes in the state of Michigan and at the national level. The foundation was formed by Western Michigan auto parts manufacturer Edgar Prince and his wife Elsa Prince (née Zwiep). Its Vice President is Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA (now known as Academi).
The Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation has donated millions of dollars to such American conservative Christian groups as:
In 2003, the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation [now the Prince Foundation] contributed $4,800,000 over a series of 29 religious grants.
In 2002, the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation contributed $2,978,000 over a series of 38 religious grants.
Between 2001 and 2014, the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation donated $6.2 million to the Family Research Council, and $5.2 million to Focus on the Family.
The Prince Foundation is also a major financial supporter of the Michigan charter school movement.
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Betsy DeVos (née Prince) married into the DeVos family.
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation was launched in 1989. The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation's giving, according to its website, is motivated by faith, and "is centered in cultivating leadership, accelerating transformation and leveraging support in five areas," namely education, community, arts, justice, and leadership. In 2015, the DeVos Foundation made $11.6 million in charitable contributions, bringing the couple's lifetime charitable giving to $139 million. Forbes ranked the DeVos family No. 24 on its 2015 list of America's top givers.
The DeVos Foundation has donated to hospitals, health research, arts organizations, Christian schools, evangelical missions, and conservative, free-market think tanks. Of the $100 million the DeVos Foundation donated between 1999 until 2014, half of it went to Christian organizations.Organizations funded by the DeVos Foundation include:
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