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FUNDER PROFILEein: 38-2514364 Ave Maria FoundationThe Ave Maria Foundation is the tax-exempt funding vehicle of Tom Monaghan, the Dominos Pizza magnate who is one of the most influential members of the Catholic Right. An advocate of laissiez-faire economics as well as an ultra-orthodox brand of faith, he has advanced those twin agendas by both his actions and his financial muscle. The Ave Maria Foundation reported net assets of $153 million in 2004. That same year it made over $91 million in grants, more than double the previous year's giving of $41.9 million. In 2004 the AMF gave $73 million in start-up costs and construction for its new Ave Maria University in Florida, where a church will have a 60-foot high bleeding Jesus in stained glass. In 2004 Thomas Monaghan personally gave $53 million to the foundation. No one else gave more than $15,000, according to the foundation's IRS 990.
Bill Berkowitz Tom Monaghan's Big Box ChurchPizza magnate is building homes in a Florida sanctuary for orthodox Catholics called Ave Maria, where there won't be any porn, condoms, or television smutIn late March, at the first annual Boston Catholic Men's Conference held at Boston College High School, Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza who has become a major league conservative philanthropist, was feeling the spirit. He triumphantly told the enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 men (including over 80 priests) in attendance that construction of Ave Maria University -- the first Catholic university built in 40 years -- was moving forward. According to published reports, "the $240 million first phase of the campus plans to be centered around the 'Oratory of Ave Maria,' a 60,000 square-foot church with aluminum and glass arches, and will include the nation's largest crucifix in stained glass with a 60 foot high bleeding Jesus. Officials say the church would be the largest fixed-seating Catholic church in the nation, with room for 3,333 to 3,500 worshipers " Susan Hansen Our Lady of DiscordSince netting about $1 billion from the 1998 sale of Domino’s to Bain Capital, Mr. Monaghan, 69, has become one of the leading philanthropists in the country and the biggest benefactor of conservative Catholic institutions. Meg Sommerfeld $220-Million to Build College Pledged by Pizza EntrepreneurThomas S. Monaghan...announced on Wednesday that he and his Ave Maria Foundation have pledged $220-million to create a Catholic university near Naples, Fla., and an additional $18-million for an interim campus. He said he and other investors would also spend $100-million to help build a town near the campus...Mr. Monaghan is the founder and chairman of the Ave Maria Foundation, in Ann Arbor, Mich., which has $252.3-million in assets. He sold all but a 7-percent stake in Domino's Pizza for $1-billion in 1998 and gave $250-million of it to his foundation. Domenica Marchetti Delivering on His WordPizza-empire founder is giving away his fortune to Catholic causesThomas S. Monaghan spent 38 years building Domino's Pizza into the world's largest fast-food delivery chain. That accomplishment, he says, was but a prelude to what he calls "the main event" in his life: his philanthropic support of Roman Catholic causes.
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OTHER LINKSAve Watch - investigative journalism on Tom Monaghan's Ave Maria Foundation
Bill Donahue Hail MaryChastity fashion, paintball theology, golf-course mansions, and a Vatican-approved college: Domino's pizza billionaire Tom Monaghan builds a city on a swamp. Tom Monaghan -- who founded Domino's Pizza in 1965, then sold it 33 years later, for $1 billion -- has given generously to antiabortion groups and has recently made headlines with his pledge to help bankroll the long-shot presidential campaign of Sam Brownback... is [now] spending $400 million to construct his dream—a sort of right-wing Notre Dame University designed for 6,000 students that will, this fall, become the permanent home of all Ave Maria undergrads. (The law school may relocate there, too, but not before 2009.)
Peter J. Boyer The DelivererA pizza mogul funds a moral crusade [Tom Monaghan] has resolved to use his wealth (“God’s money,’’ he said) to somehow rescue the Catholic Church from what he saw as its slide toward apostasy. Monaghan set out on a course that brought him into the upper circles of the conservative Catholic movement, allied him with anti-Sandinista churchmen in Nicaragua, led to the founding of a law school, and drew Domino’s into the fight over abortion in America. Finally, it led him to the edge of the Corkscrew Swamp, in southwest Florida. There, Monaghan means to build a university that will be more Catholic than the University of Notre Dame, surrounded by a new town that will reflect traditional Catholic values.
Matt Stearns Domino's Pizza founder tosses money, influence to Sen. BrownbackThe passion of Tom Monaghan: Pizza. God. Sam Brownback.
Frank Cocozzelli The Pizza-man Delivers: Monaghan's Dough for Radical Right Politicos...A review of Monaghan's political donations since 1984 shows that of a total of $238,031 disbursed, only $6,000 went to Democrats, another $68,500 to special interests while (as of June 2006) a hefty $161, 531 went to Republicans.
Frank Cocozzelli The Pizza-man Delivers; the Thomas More Law CenterTom Monaghan the pizza dough man has delivered us the The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) , its mission, its members, and most of all, its legal philosophy. And as we will see, the center's lawsuits reveal a decidedly theocratic disposition towards government.
Frank Cocozzelli The Catholic Right: Tom Monaghan: The Pizza-man Who Delivers the DoughIn this segment, the first of a three-part overview, you will be introduced to Tom Monaghan, a wealthy man determined to change secular society to one more heavily influenced by his brand of ultra-orthodox Catholicism. In subsequent pieces, the specifics of his activities and organizations will be reviewed.
Domenica Marchetti Philanthropist Puts His Faith in a New Law School -- and Stirs Up DebateThe founder and former chairman of Domino's Pizza [Thomas S. Monaghan], who retired last year, says he spent considerable time defending his company and pizza-delivery drivers from thousands of lawsuits...Now, Mr. Monaghan is using that same instrument -- the law -- to fight back against the decay. Last spring Mr. Monaghan...announced that he is financing the creation of the Ave Maria School of Law...He has already committed $50-million to build and operate the school over the next five years. It is scheduled to open here in the fall of 2000. And last January, he opened the Thomas More Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit legal organization that defends religious rights. Already the center has taken on a high-profile case, defending the rights of anti-abortion activists who last February were ordered to pay $107-million to two clinics and doctors for threatening them by posting their names and addresses on the Internet.
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Recipients of Ave Maria Foundation grants, in descending order
