EIN: 52-1400492

Americans for Tax Reform Foundation

Washington, DC 20036-1811

Funds Grover Norquist and the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) organization. Norquist has very close ties to the Republican Party, and he helped write their Contract With America. ATR organizes the TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose tax increases.

May 21, 2017

$25,000 grant to the ATR from the Olin Foundation for the Republican's Contract with America

grantdetail.php?grantID=7672

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
March 13, 2006

CREW FILES IRS COMPLAINT AGAINST GROVER NORQUIST'S AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM

http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=109

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) complaint against Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), and American for Tax Reform Foundation (ATR Foundation), conservative, non-profit organizations led by right-wing activist Grover Norquist. The complaint asks the IRS to investigate activities by the groups which may violate IRS regulations and require a revocation of their tax-exempt status.

The complaint alleges that Norquist used either or both ATR and ATR Foundation as commercial enterprises by laundering money derived from Indian casino clients of former lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff. The casinos made contributions to ATR, which then skimmed a fee off the top before passing the money on to former Christian activist Ralph Reed and other anti-gambling activists. In this way, Norquist, Reed and Abramoff were able to disguise the fact that the money used to fund anti-gambling activities was generated through Indian gambling. The point of the anti-gambling campaigns was to prevent competition to the Indian casinos.

Philip Shenon
NY Times
March 9, 2006

$25,000 to Lobby Group Is Tied to Access to Bush

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/10abramoff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The chief of an Indian tribe represented by the lobbyist Jack Abramoff was admitted to a meeting with President Bush in 2001 days after the tribe paid a prominent conservative lobbying group $25,000 at Mr. Abramoff's direction, according to documents and interviews.

The payment was made to Americans for Tax Reform, a group run by Grover G. Norquist, one of the Republican Party's most influential policy strategists. Mr. Norquist was a friend and longtime associate of Mr. Abramoff.

Forbes
December 2, 2004

Political Mailing List Debate Drags On

http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/12/03/cz_ms_1203norquist.html

...The Bush-Cheney campaign violated federal election law by accepting a list of 592 personal contacts, marked confidential, from Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and its leader Grover Norquist, a Federal Election Commission report found last month. But FEC lawyers asserted that because of the list's "limited size and scope" the agency should take no further action and close the file.