Charles Koch Foundation — $813M Politically/Legally/Academically Targeted Foundation
institution
An $813 million foundation quietly steers money into courts, regulation, and criminal-justice policy.
Who they are
The Charles Koch Foundation, a private foundation with about $813 million in assets.
What they do
The engine treats it as a politically focused mega-foundation, one of the most legally and academically active of its peers.
How it works
Per ProPublica and its 990-PF filing, it holds $813 million in total assets and $806 million net, a leaner base than Mellon, Walton, or Rockefeller. Its money goes into civil rights and democracy work, criminal justice reform, courts, and regulatory policy.
Why it matters
The engine treats it as an example of foundation-based political influence but deliberately keeps several readings open at once — coordinated libertarian influence, an ordinary example of politically focused U.S. foundations, or simply genuine criminal-justice and civil-rights grantmaking — without picking one.
The engine's record — word for word
Per ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 480918408 + Form 990-PF primary: total assets $813 million; net assets $806 million. Comparatively leaner asset base vs Mellon/Walton/Rockefeller — arguably most politically + legally + academically targeted of the cohort. Form 990-PF filings indicate highly focused capital deployments across: civil rights + democracy initiatives + criminal justice reform + courts + regulatory policy. Engine relevance: load-bearing instance of Layer 4 mega-foundation politically-focused architecture per Report #97 H_4. Apex (a) coordinated-libertarian-political-influence-via-foundation + (b) US-private-foundation political-focus structural-recurrence + (c) compound-null criminal-justice-and-civil-rights-grant-making all load-bearing per canon.
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