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Liddle more on the FDD.
According to Dennis Jett, FDD "offers hardly any information on where its money comes from and where it goes".[19]
2001–2004
Money contributed to the FDD during first decade of its activity, based on calculations made by Christopher Bail, expanded by 442%.[27]
In 2011, news website ThinkProgress published FDD's Form 990 documents[28] that revealed where FDD funding came from, from 2001 to 2004. Top donors included:
Roland Arnall: $1,802,000[29]
Edgar M. and Charles Bronfman: $1,050,000[29]
Michael Steinhardt: $850,000[29]
Abramson Family Foundation (of Leonard Abramson): $822,523[29]
Bernard Marcus: $600,000[29]
Lewis Ranieri: $350,000[29]
Other notable donors who gave lesser money during the same period were:
Haim Saban[29]
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi[29]
Douglas J. Feith[29]
2008–2011
FDD's Schedule A documents filed by the end of the 2011 tax year, indicates that the organization from 2008 to 2011 was funded more than $20,000,000,[30] and the top three donors were:
Bernard Marcus: $10,745,000[30]
Paul Singer: $3,600,000[30]
Sheldon Adelson: $1,510,059[30]
2017
In 2018, AP reported that the United Arab Emirates has wired $2,500,000 to the FDD through Elliott Broidy and George Nader, to host a conference amidst Qatar diplomatic crisis about the country's role as a state-sponsor of terrorism.[31] FDD stated that it does not accept money from foreign governments, adding that "[a]s is our funding policy, we asked if his funding was connected to any foreign governments or if he had business contracts in the Gulf. He assured us that he did not".[31]
Adam Hanieh states that the FDD high-profile conference of 23 May 2017 was in line with UAE's policy at the time, which officially alleged that Qatar finances Islamist groups, adding that emails leaked shortly after show that UAE's Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba had a "cosy relationship" with the FDD, and had reviewed the remarks made by Robert Gates at the convention.[32]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies