Betsy DeVos

Leadership & Staff

Josh Venable Michigan Republican operative, former Betsy Devos chief of staff

• chief of staff (past)

Business Positions

RDV Corp. Manages the affairs of Amway Corp. co-founder Richard DeVos and his family

• Director (past)

Board Memberships

Dick And Betsy Devos Foundation

• Chairman

John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts DC Performing Arts Center

• Member, Board of Trustees

Alliance for School Choice

• Chairman (past)

American Federation for Children Education reform group founded in 2010 by billionaire Republican donor Betsy DeVos

• Chairman (past)

Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation

• vice president

American Enterprise Institute Largest neoconservative think tank

• Board member

Michigan Republican Party Michigan Republican Party

• Chair ('96→'00)

Acton Institute Ties right-wing religion and free-market economics

• Board Member (past)

All Children Matter k12 school privatization 527

• Director

Positions

Let MI Kids Learn Michigan Ballot Petition spearheaded by BetsyDevos for Vouchers in Michigan

• Spokesperson

Family Research Council SPLC-designated hate group

• donor

Rethink K-12 Education Models (REM) Grant US DOE Part of Covid CARES Act

• Oversees (Jul 29 '20→?)*

Acton Institute Ties right-wing religion and free-market economics

• Member, Board of Advisors

Government Positions

US Department of Education

• Secretary of Education (Mar '17→Jan '21)

Donations

Let MI Kids Learn Michigan Ballot Petition spearheaded by BetsyDevos for Vouchers in Michigan

• Donation · 2,750,000 USD*

Louisiana Federation for Children PAC PAC affiliated with the American Federation for Children

• Donation · 100,000 USD (Sep 22 '15)

School Choice Federal PAC

• Donation/Grant · 5,000 USD (Oct 8 '16)

Trump for America, Inc. Trump transition team

• Donation/Grant · 5,000 USD (Dec 14 '16)

Focus on the Family Evangelical parachurch organization

• donor

Michigan Freedom Fund

• donor

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 11 contributions · 292,900 USD (Apr 6 '04→Oct 5 '15)

American Crossroads Super PAC that raises funds from donors to advocate for certain candidates of the Republican Party.

• 2 contributions · 100,000 USD (Oct 6 '15→Jun 10 '16)

Michigan Republican Party Michigan Republican Party

• 16 contributions · 99,540 USD ('90→Jun 13 '16)

National Republican Senatorial Committee Campaign committee for Republican U.S. Senate candidates

• 2 contributions · 50,800 USD (Oct 23 '14→Oct 6 '15)

Conservative Solutions PAC

• 1 contribution · 50,000 USD (Feb 25 '16)

Restoring the American Dream

• 5 contributions · 25,000 USD ('98→'03)

Tim Walberg US Representative from Michigan

• 13 contributions · 22,900 USD ('07→Jun 27 '15)

Alticor Political Action Committee Altipac

• 5 contributions · 20,000 USD (Dec 28 '97→Nov 4 '16)

Justin Amash Former US Representative from Michigan

• 10 contributions · 18,700 USD (Feb 25 '10→Dec 23 '15)

Dan Benishek US Representative from Michigan

• 11 contributions · 17,900 USD (Sep 30 '10→Dec 9 '15)

Holdings

Theranos blood testing company

• Owner

Family

Ryan DeVos Son of Richard and Betsy DeVos

• son

Andrea DeVos Daughter of Richard and Betsy DeVos

• daughter

Elissa DeVos Daughter of Richard and Betsy DeVos

• daughter

Richard DeVos III Founder of ArtPrize; Son of Richard and Betsy DeVos; Founder & Chairman: CEO, Wakestream Ventures

• son

Daniel DeVos Amway scion; DP Fox Ventures LLC

• Brother-in-Law

Doug DeVos President and Co-CEO, Amway Corp.

• Brother-in-Law

Edgar Prince Founder. The Prince Corporation (sold to Johnson Controls in 1996)

• Father

Elsa D. Prince-Broekhuizen Widow of Edgar Prince

• mother

Richard M. DeVos, Jr. Oldest son of Richard DeVos, Sr, co founder of Amway

• the husband

Erik Prince Chairman and CEO of the Prince Group and Academi (formerly Xe, Blackwater); Middleburg Virginia

• the brother

Social

Adam Kissel Former deputy under Betsy Devos, Senior fellow for cardinal institute in West Virginia.

• Professional

Miscellaneous Relationships

James Blew Trump nominee to be Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Department of Education

• Colleague*