friend, 

We’ve just released our newest report detailing the most recent data around the Koch Foundation’s spending in Higher Education. Using tax records, we discovered that in 2019, Koch university funding totaled $112,044,071. This is an increase of $23.9 million from 2018. It’s the second year in a row that Koch outspent it’s previous annual total by over $20 million. This significant one-year total is over a hundred million dollars more than Koch foundations spent annually on universities a decade ago, at $10.5 million in 2009.

Overall, Charles Koch has overseen more than $458 million in grants to over 550 universities and high education adjacent non-profits. Charles Koch himself admits that his funding of hundreds of universities across the country is intended to mainstream free-market ideas and approaches to public policy that support the Koch network's legislative goals at the state and federal levels.

A school that accepts funding from the Charles Koch Foundation is making a commitment to endorse & enable the Koch network’s harmful political agenda to halt action on climate change, deny millions of people healthcare, and strip rights and wages from workers globally. Read our report and see if your alma mater is listed and how much they are being given to trade on their reputation. Then, head over to our site to check out the new search tools we created from our report. We've provided different ways to view and utilize the data, including a brand new heat map that shows just how widespread Koch's money and influence has grown over the years.

You can download and use our social media toolkit to help share our report with others!

Onward,

Jasmine Banks, Executive Director

P.S. Reports like this one are made possible thanks to your generous contributions. Donate today to help us keep up the work!  The need to fight against corporate interest and greed is more necessary than ever. 

 

UnKoch My Campus is a project dedicated to disrupting corporate influence on campuses nationwide by equipping campus activists with education, skills, and ecosystems of solidarity. The Koch network is leveraging its donations to colleges and universities to bolster its corporate agenda to halt action on climate change, put hundreds of thousands of people in prison, deny millions of people healthcare, and strip rights and wages from workers globally. We're building a mass movement of young people who are dedicated to disrupting this harm. 

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