Rapid Growth of #SCFN
The Right-wing
State Freedom Caucus Network

The "Conservative Partnership Institute" (CPI) launched SFCN in 2021
and shares leadership and office space with the organization.

Mark #Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff and one of the founders of the congressional "House Freedom Caucus",
is a senior partner at CPI and is on the board of SFCN.

For Republicans, freedom caucuses that have emerged in state legislatures in the past few years have played the same obstructionist role as the House Freedom Caucus in Congress,
-- slowing or stopping initiatives by more traditional members of the party through political maneuvering.

In newly available IRS filings, SFCN disclosed $1.73 million in revenue in 2024
and just over $1 million in expenses.

In 2023, it reported $1.02 million in revenue and just over $730,000 in expenses.

SFC Foundation, SFCN’s sister organization,
reported revenue of $1.86 million and expenses of $1.92 million in 2024.

In 2023, the foundation disclosed $1.22 million in revenue and $1.55 million in expenses.

SFC Foundation shares office space, staff, and board members with SFCN.

Much of the funding for SFCN is untraceable,
but a CMD review of hundreds of IRS filings identified four sources in 2024:

🔸the "American Federation for Children" (established by Trump’s former Secretary of Education Betsy #DeVos), $25,000;

🔸the "National Christian Charitable Foundation", $80,000;

🔸"Renew Massachusetts Coalition Foundation", $100,000;

🔸and the "Robert S and Star Pepper Foundation", $5,000.

RMC is registered at the same address as SFCN and CPI and,
like SFCN, is also led by Andy #Roth.

Through a similar analysis of hundreds of IRS filings, CMD has been able to uncover several key sources of funding for the SFC Foundation,
including its biggest known contributors:

🔸#CPI, $1.03 million (2022–23);

🔸#Consumers’ #Research, $200,000 (2022; 2024);

🔸the Koch political network’s preferred donor-advised fund #DonorsTrust, $240,000 (2024);

🔸and Cleta #Mitchell’s "Foundation for Accountability, Integrity & Research in Elections Fund" (#FAIR #Elections #Fund), $300,000 (2023).

Like CPI, Mitchell’s voter suppression group is registered at the same address.

(A full list of CMD’s identified sources of funding for both SFCN and the foundation is available on SourceWatch.)