SOURCE: Wikipedia, captured 2020-07-03
[Past] Associations with Steven K. Bannon:
Citizens of the American Republic:
"... Steve Bannon founded Citizens of the American Republic in 2017, after he was abandoned by his previous financial backers, Robert Mercer and Rebekah Mercer [Mercer Family Foundation]. ..."
It appears that at one time the Mercer Family Foundation also provided support to the notorious pro-Trump, anti-LGBT+, misogynist, anti-Muslim, xenophobic, racist, paedophilia-affirming, ... troll Milo Yiannopoulos:
"In December 2018, The Guardian reported that documents assembled by his former Australian tour promoters, Australian Events Management, showed Yiannopoulos had accrued more than $2 million in unpaid debt. Yiannopoulos reportedly owed $1.6 million to his own company, $400,000 to the Mercer Family Foundation."
Eventually, however, it appears that Yiannopoulos' vitriol exceeded even what this vulgar organization [Mercer Family Foundation] could stomach.
The Mercer Family Foundation is a private grant-making foundation in the United States. As of 2013, it had $37 million in assets. The foundation is run by Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.
Under Rebekah's leadership, the family foundation invested about $70 million into conservative causes between 2009 and 2014. The foundation has also donated to groups that reject the scientific consensus on climate change.
The foundation's main interests are in the fields of public policy, higher education, and science. The foundation has donated to organizations and institutions including the Heritage Foundation, Illinois Policy Institute, Heartland Institute, and SUNY Stony Brook. 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."
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