Texas Public Policy Foundation

Leadership & Staff

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

• Visiting Scholar

Jacki Deason Lawyer, Texas Public Policy Foundation senior fellow

• senior fellow

Christian Andzel Young far-right up and comer.

• Research Fellow ('17→?)

Greg Sindelar CEO, Texas Public Policy Foundation

• CEO (Oct '21→?)

Stacy Hock Chair of Texans for Educational Opportunities

• Board Member

James M. Windham Banker, Educational Reformer

• staff

Douglas Domenech Assistant secretary of the Interior for insular areas; former director of the Fueling Freedom Project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation

• director of the Fueling Freedom Project

Kathleen Hartnett White Texas Public Policy Foundation; Trump nomination to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality withdrawn January 2018

• Distinguished Senior Fellow-In-Residence & Director within the Armstrong Center For Energy & The Env ('08→?)

Katharine T Sullivan Trump Assistant Attorney General (Office of Justice Programs)

• Position

Kevin Roberts President, The Heritage Foundation; former Executive Director Texas Public Policy Foundation

• Executive Director (?→'21)

Board Members

Wendy Lee Gramm Called "the Margaret Thatcher of financial regulation" by the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 12, 1999 editorial),

• Chairman of the Board

Tim Dunn Texas oil and gas billionaire & Empower Texans chairman; Crownquest Operating

• Vice chairman of board of directors

Brooke Rollins Assistant to President Trump and Acting Director of the Domestic Policy Council; former President & CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation

• President and CEO ('13→'18)

Donors

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Donors Capital Fund DonorsTrust affiliate for $1 million+ anonymous donors

• Grant · 920,000 USD ('09) [+1]

• Donation · 667,508 USD ('10)

David Koch Billionaire industrialist; helped fund vast conservative, libertarian political operation

• Donation · 296,516 USD

Charles Koch Foundation Grantmaking foundation controlled by Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch

• Donation · 200,000 USD ('14)

ExxonMobil Oil and gas exploration, production, and marketing

• Donation · 100,000 USD*

Tenth Amendment Project

• Donation/Grant

National Philanthropic Trust Solicits and manages donor advised funds

• Donation/Grant

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

• Donation/Grant

Ed Uihlein Family Foundation Non profit managed by Dick Uihlein

• Donation/Grant

Bradley Impact Fund Donor-advised fund of the Bradley Family Foundation - "A Donor-Advised Fund for Conservatives"

• Donation/Grant

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a conservative foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report

• Donation/Grant

Holdings

Veritas Publication of Texas Public Policy Foundation

• Owner

Child Organizations

Right On Crime Conservative Prison Reform Policy Group

• Child Org

Memberships

Project 2025 Far-right plan to take power in 2024 elections, "decimate the deep state" via policy, personnel, training

• Advisory Board Member

State Policy Network right-wing think tank network

• member

ALEC Justice Performance Project ALEC Justice Performance Project replaces Public Safety and Elections Task Force

• Member

Services & Transactions

Just Liberty bipartisan 501c(4) organization dedicated to comprehensive criminal justice reform in Texas. 

• Service/Transaction

Pelican Institute for Public Policy Founded in 2008, think tank advocating market-based policy solutions at the state and local level.

• co-signed petition against Health Care Reform bill [+1]

• co-signed petition against Health Care Reform bill

Miscellaneous Relationships

Claremont Institute Formerly a conservative CA think tank, now an Anti-Democracy Think Tank

• Affiliation

John Cornyn Republican US Senator from Texas

• Affiliation