THE KETCHUP MAFIA
Teresa Heinz Kerry's foundations have given
nearly a million dollars in recent years to the League and the
environmental groups whose executives sit on the League's 24-member
Board of Directors:
-
Natural Resources Defense Council - John Adams (LCV Board)
- Wilderness Society - William Meadows III (LCV Board)
- Environmental Defense - Fred
Krupp (LCV Board)
- West Harlem Environmental
Action - Peggy Shepard (LCV Board)
Remember 2004? Here's the non-profit Heinz foundation's Kerry
for President high dollar scorecard:
-
Direct grants to League of Conservation Voters,
1993-2001: $57,300.
-
Grants to NRDC:
2001-2003: $56,000
-
Grants to Wilderness Society:
2003 - $50,000
(1996: $56,350,
cumulative total $106,350)
-
Grants to Environmental Defense: 2001-2003 -
$601,000 (1992-2000 - $2,846,819, cumulative total, $3,447,819)
-
Grants to West Harlem Environmental Action's
Peggy Shepard: 2003 - $250,000.
That looks like $964,650 in recent years and
about $4 million in the last dozen years. That's a lot of political
clout.
It's made headlines, but not with all those
numbers:
NEW YORK
POST:
JOHN'S ECO-PALS GOT WIFE'S GREENBACKING
By
DEBORAH ORIN and BRIAN BLOMQUIST
February 10, 2004 -- An
environmental group that has run TV ads boosting Democrat John Kerry
yesterday acknowledged getting funds from a foundation headed by his
wealthy wife, Teresa - but denied that played any role.
The
League of Conservation Voters endorsed Kerry on Jan. 24 - in 2000 it
waited to back Al Gore until April when he was the certain nominee.
LCV
political director Mark Longabaugh said the group got $57,300 from
the Heinz Family Foundation - headed by Mrs. Kerry who is the widow
of ketchup heir John Heinz - from 1993 to 2001, including a $2,500
personal contribution from her in 2000.
He
said the group's endorsement "was made on the merits of John Kerry's
record - he has a 96 percent LCV voting record" and added that LCV
so far has spent "six figures" on TV ads to promote Kerry's
candidacy but none of that was money from his wife.
Mrs. Kerry's net worth is estimated at over $500 million
but the law bars her from donating more than $4,000 to her husband's
campaign.
Yeah, sure.
Foundation Facts:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Financial Data
(Fiscal Date: 01/12/31 )
Assets Amount: $907,657,792 AM
Expenditures: $50,406,643
Total Giving: $41,130,518
Grants Amount: $41,130,518 Number of Grants: 304
Highest Grant: $3,750,000 Lowest Grant: $2,000
Average Grant: 5,000-100,000
Governing Body/Executive Staff:
Officers and Directors: Teresa F. Heinz
Kerry, Chair.; Maxwell
King, Pres.; J.E. Kime, C.F.O.; Ann C. Plunkett, Cont.; Carol R.
Brown; Frank V. Cahouet; H. John Heinz IV; Howard M. Love; Shirley
Malcom; William H. Rea; Barbara Robinson; Frederick W. Thieman;
Mallory Walker.
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Financial Data
(Fiscal Date: 01/12/31 )
Assets Amount: $468,932,556 AM
Expenditures: $23,703,192
Total Giving: $18,506,696
Grants Amount: $18,506,696 Number of Grants: 172
Highest Grant: $1,307,385 Lowest Grant: $1,000
Average Grant: 50,000-200,000
Governing Body/Executive Staff:
Officers and Directors:* James M. Walton*, Chair.; Maxwell King,
Pres.; Jack E. Kime, C.F.O.; Ann C. Plunkett, Cont.; Andre T. Heinz;
Teresa F. Heinz
Kerry; Wendy MacKenzie;
William H. Rea; Barbara K. Robinson; Konrad M. Weis; S. Donald Wiley
Heinz Family Foundation
Financial
Data (Fiscal Date: 02/12/31 )
Assets Amount: $69,000,000 AM
Contributions Received: $6,659,935
Expenditures: $7,968,785
Total Giving: $4,858,401
Grants Amount: $3,608,401 Number of Grants: 210
Highest Grant: $1,000,000 Lowest Grant: $250
Average Grant: 250-250,000
Governing Body/Executive Staff:
Officers and Directors:
Teresa F. Heinz
Kerry, Chair. and C.E.O.;
Jeffrey R. Lewis, Pres.; Wendy Mackenzie, Secy.; S. Donald Wiley,
Treas.; Jack E. Kime, C.F.O.; John R. Taylor, C.I.O.; Andre Heinz.
The Heinz Family Foundation operates as "The
Heinz Family Philanthropies," according to the
website www.hfp.heinz.org,
which is deceptive. The website says that the Heinz Family
Philanthropies consists of three foundations,
- The Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation
- The H. John Heinz III Foundation
- The Heinz Family Foundation
In fact, the first two "foundations" on this list
are not 501(c)(3) foundations at all. They are "funds" fed by
private trusts belonging to Teresa Heinz. They aroused suspicion
because they are not listed in IRS Publication 78 (the government's
index of all tax-exempt organizations).
"The Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation" and
"The H. John Heinz III Foundation " are not 501(c)(3) exempt
organizations, they are actually "funds" within the Heinz Family
Foundation and are totally controlled by Teresa Heinz:
- The two funds receive their money from separate
"charitable lead trusts." A charitable lead trust is a private
non-exempt trust that provides payments to others (individuals or
organizations) for a term of years, then the trust principal goes
to the recipient free of, or at greatly reduced, federal gift and
estate tax.
- In 2001, The Heinz Family Foundation received
$6.4 million from The Teresa & H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust
(a charitable lead trust) for The Teresa & H. John Heinz III Fund
(called a "foundation" on the website).
- In 2001, The Heinz Family Foundation received
$259,525 from The H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust (a charitable
lead trust) for The H. John Heinz III Fund (called a "foundation"
on the website).
- Both of these charitable lead trusts are
controlled by Teresa Heinz.
- It is deceptive to call such a confusing setup
a "foundation."
- The point: Teresa Heinz has direct power over
more than is visible.
From Undue Influence
by Ron Arnold
Mozambique-born Teresa Heinz (Teresa is
pronounced "tah-RAY-zah") has had many career
profiles: a leading stockholder in the $10 billion H.J. Heinz
Company, vice chairman of the 300,000-member Environmental Defense
Fund, and chairman of the
$907,657,792 Howard Heinz Endowment in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; chairman of the
$69,000,000 Heinz Family Foundation,
member of the board of directors of the
$468,932,556 Vira I. Heinz Endowment.
She funneled $447,923 to EDF in 1993 through her personal charity,
the Heinz Family Foundation and donated $750,000 in 1997 from the
Heinz Endowments.
Teresa Heinz, no longer the Audrey-Hepburnesque
beauty of the ’60s but still attractive as she enters her ’60s (said
one newspaper), has been deeply involved in environmental causes for
decades. Very dedicated. Her Heinz Family Foundation’s reports state
the following: "Contributes only to pre-selected organizations;
unsolicited applications not considered." Absolutely prescriptive.
Wren Winslow Wirth is the wife of Timothy E.
Wirth, former Senator from Colorado, former Clinton administration
State Department environmental official, president of Ted Turner’s
United Nations Fund. He’s the small potatoes of the family. Wren is
president of the Winslow Foundation, assets $20,077,168 in 1996,
annual grants a little under a million dollars a year, almost all to
environmental groups.
Wren sat on the board of directors of the
Environmental Defense Fund from 1983 to 1998, recruited by her close
friend (since 1970) Teresa Heinz. Teresa is also treasurer of Wren’s
Winslow Foundation. The Winslow Foundation’s reports say, "Grants
are made to pre-selected organizations only." Absolutely
prescriptive.
Francis W. Hatch is chairman of the Boston-based
pharmaceutical-rich John Merck Fund, a former Republican candidate
for governor of Massachusetts, and son-in-law of Serena Merck. He is
the top funder of New England environmentalists, $1.4 million in
1993, $1.3 million in ’94, $1.4 million in 1995, and similar grants
thereafter. The John Merck Fund’s reports state the following: "The
Fund generally supports pre-selected organizations. It discourages
the submission of unsolicited applications." Aggressively to
absolutely prescriptive.
Socialite Teresa Heinz embodies the power and
connections in the intricately networked foundation world. She
virtually symbolizes the interlocking nature of environmental
funders. "It is an extraordinarily incestuous world out there," said
Robert Schaeffer, a Boston-based consultant who represents several
groups that are heavily funded by foundations.
The Heinz Endowments, which are really two
entities— the Howard Heinz Endowment, established in 1941, and the
Vira I. Heinz Endowment, established in 1986—give large grants to
people Teresa Heinz knows personally, such as environmentalist
architect William McDonough, a family friend who once employed
Heinz’s son.
McDonough was also a trustee of the W. Alton
Jones Foundation for years. McDonough also designed the new
headquarters for the Environmental Defense Fund in 1985—and was
still one of the five highest paid professional service providers in
1991 at $91,913. He also designed the corporate campus for Gap, Inc.
(Gap’s Donald and Doris Fisher give over $2 million a year to
environmental groups through their Gap Foundation). He also designed
the headquarters of the Heinz Family Offices in 1994. A 1997 Heinz
Endowments grant for $50,000 went to the University of Virginia to
support the Institute of Sustainable Design and to launch the Center
for Sustainable Design and Civic Leadership, McDonough creations.
William McDonough is a Yale graduate and
practicing architect, founder of William McDonough & Partners
Architects and Planners, which moved from New York in 1994 to
Charlottesville, Virginia. He moved because he was appointed Dean of
the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and resigned as a
W. Alton Jones Foundation trustee.
In 1996 the "Green Dean" won the first
Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation’s highest
environmental award, from President Bill Clinton. How did his name
get to the Clinton administration? Teresa’s chum Wren’s husband
Tim’s chum Al Gore, maybe?
Extraordinarily incestuous.
McDonough has served as advisor to Businesses for
Social Responsibility and the Social Venture Network, both projects
of the Tides Center.
Extraordinarily incestuous.
Heinz herself is quite a veteran: in 1989, she
helped stop a highway through the Amazon jungle, and in 1984 she and
husband Senator John Heinz created a foundation that paid for causes
such as a guide to socially responsible grocery shopping and a
public relations firm that recruits Hollywood stars to support
environmental efforts.
Following the 1991 death of Sen. Heinz in a freak
helicopter-plane crash, Teresa Heinz turned the two endowments into
aggressive supporters of the environment, mainly in Pennsylvania. In
1993, she made one of the biggest environmental gifts ever, $20
million for the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the
Environment, a think-tank / research center. The idea was to bring
environmental groups, industry, academia and government together to
cope with environmental problems. If the track record of such
mediatory efforts is any indication, industry will compromise away
its ability to do business, piece by piece, year by year.
Teresa Heinz is now the wife of Sen. John Kerry.
The Boston
Globe wrote in 1997, "If existing environmental groups can’t do the
job, foundations may set up new ones. This year, officials at the
Heinz Endowments of Pittsburgh set up a $700,000 organization to
scrutinize deregulation of the electric industry, complete with a
‘grassroots’ coordinator to whip up support among groups such as the
elderly and organized labor."
The League of Conservation Voters has formally
endorsed John Kerry as their candidate for the Democratic Party
Presidential Nomination.
Foundation Name: Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: League
of Conservation Voters Education Fund , DC
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: League
of Conservation Voters , DC
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
, NYC , NY
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name: Vira I.
Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
, NYC , NY
Abstract: To develop innovative strategy for reducing non-point
source pollution in western Pennsylvania
Amount: $200,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name: Heinz Family Foundation
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
Fund , DC
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $150,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For partnership with Carnegie-Mellon University and the
University of Pittsburgh to examine high-volume chemical production
and related environmental impacts
Amount: $320,767 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Heinz Family
Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , DC
Abstract: To place Global Warming exhibition on the World Wide
Website
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: To promote electricity restructuring and emissions trading
to improve air quality in the Commonwealth
Amount: $750,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name: Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: To hire consultant for Environmental Resources Trust
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name: Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense Fund ,
NYC , NY
Abstract: To develop innovative economic strategies to solve
Pennsylvania's air quality problem
Amount: $185,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For global warming project
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For Pulp and Paper Task Force
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1993
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For second payment for Pulp and Paper Task Force
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1993
Foundation Name:
Vira I.
Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
Fund , NYC , NY
Abstract: For operating support for design of Center for
Environmental Science and Economics
Amount: $347,923 Year Authorized: 1993
Foundation Name:
Vira I.
Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Environmental Defense
Fund , DC
Abstract: To cover anticipated expenses to help design Center for
Environmental Science and Economics
Amount: $203,129 Year Authorized: 1992
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Massachusetts Public Interest
Research Group
Education Fund , Boston , MA
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
National Parks
and Conservation Association , DC
Abstract: For National Parks Business Plan Initiative Phase III
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
National Parks and
Conservation Association , DC
Abstract: To support participation of Heinz School of Public Policy
student in Business Plan Initiative (BPI)
Amount: $12,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Wilderness Society
, DC
Abstract: To develop revolving loan for green-certified forest
products
Amount: $56,350 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient: Tides
Center - Western Pennsylvania , Pittsburgh , PA
Abstract: For Sustainable Pittsburgh
Amount: $300,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center - Western Pennsylvania , Pittsburgh , PA
Abstract: For Sprout Fund, grassroots-oriented community initiatives
fund
Amount: $87,500 Year Authorized: 2001
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Tides
Center , DC
Abstract: For Minority Women Vote project
Amount: $25,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient: Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: To develop plan and strategic activities for
revitalization of Oakland with particular focus on environmental
factors
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Sustainable Pittsburgh project
Amount: $350,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Funders' Forum on Environmental Education (F2E2)
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz
Endowment
Recipient: Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project
Amount: $99,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Vira I.
Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides Center , San Francisco
, CA
Abstract: For initiative aimed at improving quality of services for
youth, ages 12-18
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: Tides
Center , DC
Abstract: For Social Policy Action Network's project on public
values and early childhood issues
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient: Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project, program to promote
renewable energy and ecological design in Western and central
Pennsylvania
Amount: $75,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Sustainable Pittsburgh, initiative that will create
framework to guide policies and development decisions in western
Pennsylvania
Amount: $300,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy project
Amount: $125,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Phase II of Chemical Strategies Partnership (CSP)
Amount: $240,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name: Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For continued implementation of programs and services of
Pittsburgh-based Green Building Alliance
Amount: $300,000 Year Authorized: 1999
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project
Amount: $160,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name: Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For continued operating support of Chemical Strategies
Partnership in Pennsylvania
Amount: $220,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For continued support to advance green building design and
construction through Green Building Alliance
Amount: $300,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Green Building Alliance technical support of
convention center design
Amount: $800,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: To advance green building design and construction through
Green Building Alliance
Amount: $200,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For operating support for Chemical Strategies Partnership
in Pennsylvania
Amount: $200,500 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name: Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: To develop new logo and brochure for Grantmakers for
Children, Youth and Families, and for membership
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For California Environmental Associates planning grant to
research, evaluate and interview Pennsylvania companies to
potentially participate in Chemical Strategies Partnership
Amount: $43,500 Year Authorized: 1997
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Metropolitics Pittsburgh proposal
Amount: $41,500 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project
Amount: $170,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For continued core support of Grantmakers for Children,
Youth and Families during strategic planning period
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz
Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Center , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For Pennsylvania Energy Project
Amount: $400,000 Year Authorized: 1996
Foundation Name:
Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient:
Tides
Foundation , DC
Abstract: For Environmental Working Group Project
Amount: $45,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Foundation , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For start-up support to Business for Social Responsibility
(BSR) Education Fund for industrial ecology, green design and other
projects by industries and companies in western Pennsylvania and
elsewhere
Amount: $72,500 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name:
Vira I. Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Foundation , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: For start-up support to Business for Social Responsibility
(BSR) Education Fund for industrial ecology, green design and other
projects by industries and companies in western Pennsylvania and
elsewhere
Amount: $72,500 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name: Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Tides
Foundation , San Francisco , CA
Abstract: Toward making transition from being program of Council on
Foundations to becoming quasi-independent organization
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Foundation Name: Heinz
Family Foundation
Recipient: National Wildlife Federation , DC
Abstract: For general operating support
Amount: $22,000 Year Authorized: 1993
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
National
Environmental Trust , DC
Abstract: For Clean and Affordable Energy Campaign
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1998
Foundation Name:
Howard Heinz Endowment
Recipient:
Pennsylvania Conservation Voters Education League , West Brownsville
, PA
Abstract: To carry out voter education programs on environmental
issues
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 2001
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