Recent Tax Filings

Manhattan Institute

The latest tax filing from the Manhattan Institute, which covers their financial year beginning October 1, 2022, and ending September 30, 2023, showed the following:

• Contributions to the Manhattan Institute rose by more than a quarter between FY 2021 and 2022.
• Over the past year and a half, the Manhattan Institute has been at the forefront of the anti-DEI movement.
• Christopher Rufo, who is credited with the downfall of Harvard President Claudine Gay, began collecting a salary from the institute in 2022. In 2022-2023, he had a salary of more than a quarter million. Rufo was previously a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based think tank that is broadly supportive of Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban.
• Former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos now sits on the organization’s board of trustees.
• Susan Lebovitz-Edelman joined the board of trustees. Her family’s Edelman Family Foundation seeded Do No Harm, an anti-transgender organization.
• Also on the board is Kathy Crow, the wife of Harlan Crow whose generous gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the subject of a congressional probe into Supreme Court ethics.
• During FY 2021-2022, the Manhattan Institute became a frequent filer of amicus briefs in circuit courts and the Supreme Court. Since July 2022, the organization has filed 85 amici. Cases included Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Moore v. United States, and Biden v. Nebraska.

Learn more about the Manhattan Institute’s latest tax filing here.

Federalist Society

The latest tax filing from the Federalist Society, which covers their financial year beginning October 1, 2022, and ending September 30, 2023, showed the following:

• A decline in contributions and grants to the organization while expenses remained mostly flat.
• The Federalist Society paid CRC advisors over $1.5 million as an independent contractor for “media training.” CRC Advisors is partially owned by Leonard Leo, the former executive vice president of the Federalist Society and its current co-chairman.

Learn more about the Federalist Society’s latest tax filing here.