Formation | 14 June 2004 |
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Founder | Robert Mercer |
Founded at | New York City, U.S. |
Type | charitable foundation |
20-1982204 | |
Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
Purpose | philanthropy |
Headquarters | 51 Sawyer Rd, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02453-3448, U.S. |
Director | Rebekah Mercer[1] |
Disbursements | $13,492,358 (2013)[2] |
The Mercer Family Foundation is a private grant-making foundation in the United States. As of 2013, it had $37 million in assets.[3] The foundation is run by Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.[4][5]
Under Rebekah’s leadership, the family foundation invested about $70 million into conservative causes between 2009 and 2014.[6] The foundation has also donated to groups critical of climate change activism.[7]
According to The Washington Post, the family donated $35 million to conservative think tanks and at least to $36.5 million to individual GOP races.