Donors Trust

About Donors Trust

Donors Trust Inc regularly channels large gifts to institutions tied to liberty, law, and policy. In the recent grants list, the single largest award is $100,650,000 to Dechomai Asset Trust for a donor-advised fund, showing that the organization’s activity includes substantial donor-advised fund routing as well as direct support. Beyond that, its grant record includes major operating support for MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Orthopaedic Institute, America First Legal Foundation, and Texas A&M Foundation’s Center on the Structural Constitution. The foundation’s support reaches across public policy, education, religious causes, arts, and community associations, with beneficiary groups that include law students, university students, Ukrainian civilians, patients receiving orthopaedic care, and women in leadership programs. Its stated philosophy centers on limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise, and the grant list reflects that orientation through legal, educational, and advocacy-oriented institutions. Recent awards also show repeated support for organizations such as State Policy Network, Consumers' Research Inc, Institute for Justice, Reason Foundation, Federalist Society, and Real Clear Foundation. The portfolio is national in scope and includes both very large awards and many mid-sized operating grants.

What Donors Trust Funds

In public policy and legal advocacy, Donors Trust Inc funded America First Legal Foundation with $20,734,450 for general operations and the Institute for Justice with $6,999,880 for general operations, alongside repeated support for State Policy Network and Federalist Society. Those grants point to an emphasis on institutions that produce litigation, policy research, and legal education. Education-related giving appears in support for Texas A&M Foundation, which received $5,000,000 in 2025 for the Center on the Structural Constitution, plus similar awards in 2024 and 2023 for the same center. The foundation also gave $14,500,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for general operations, showing support for research institutions. Its nonprofit portfolio extends to humanitarian and service-oriented causes as well. In 2025 it gave $4,433,000 to Teneo Network Inc for general operations, and its grant taxonomy also includes Ukraine humanitarian relief and solidarity efforts, women’s empowerment programs, and orthopaedic healthcare services.

How Donors Trust Gives