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This New Republic article investigates the financial backers of Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint for a potential second Trump administration. It identifies major donors funding the Heritage Foundation and affiliated organizations driving the initiative, raising concerns about the influence of wealthy interests on proposed government restructuring.
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- •Project 2025 is a sweeping policy agenda developed by the Heritage Foundation aimed at reshaping the federal government under a future Trump administration.
- •The article reveals major conservative donors and foundations funding the organizations behind Project 2025.
- •Funding sources include prominent billionaires and right-wing philanthropic networks with interests in deregulation and reduced government oversight.
- •The project proposes significant changes to federal agencies, including those overseeing technology, science, and AI policy.
- •Critics argue the donor network reflects concentrated private interests seeking to influence public policy at an unprecedented scale.
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A pro–Donald Trump nonprofit organization accidentally revealed its top donors. It turns out two of them usually back liberal causes.
[The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-group-accidentally-reveals-its-secret-donors-some-of-them-are-liberal-orgs) obtained a copy of the 2022 tax statement for the nonprofit [American Compass](https://newrepublic.com/article/173806/american-compass-conservatives-arent-serious-empowering-working-class), which is [linked](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworld-is-already-at-war-over-staffing-a-new-trump-white-house) to a plan to assemble Trump’s Cabinet for a potential [second term](https://newrepublic.com/article/176569/trump-second-term-legal-team). The document includes a list of five donor organizations.
Two of the donors are the Omidyar Network Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Omidyar has donated a total of $500,000 to American Compass since 2020, according to the foundation’s [website](https://omidyar.com/reimagining-capitalism-partners/).
Hewlett has contributed more than one-third of American Compass’s total public support. Hewlett has donated $1,486,000 to American Compass since 2020, including a tranche of $475,000 just in January.
The two organizations’ support for American Compass stands in stark contrast to the causes that they normally back. Pierre Omidyar has donated considerably to Democratic dark money groups and to fighting racism. He also provided the initial funding for the news outlet The Intercept in 2014; Omidyar’s First Look Media continued to fund the organization until it was spun off as a nonprofit earlier this year.
Hewlett has donated to global groups that fight for women’s rights, environmental reform, and the arts. Hewlett is also a longtime supporter of NPR.\*
It’s unclear what Hewlett and Omidyar are doing by backing groups that are so ideologically disparate. But their support is dangerous: American Compass is part of a movement propelled by younger Republicans seeking to make Trumpism align with traditional, small-government conservatism.
American Compass is also part of the right-wing think tank [Project 2025](https://newrepublic.com/post/176889/hard-right-groups-building-army-loyalists-help-trump-destroy-democracy). Project 2025, one of the drivers behind the growing setup for a second Trump term, is itself a part of the Heritage Foundation. The far-right Heritage Foundation has [allied](https://newrepublic.com/article/140271/dc-think-tank-behind-donald-trump) itself closely with Trump and helped shape much of his policy while in office.
Some of Project 2025’s backers include former Trump advisers [Stephen Miller](https://newrepubl
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