The Mercer Family Foundation is a private grant-making foundation in the United States. As of 2013, it had $37 million in assets. The foundation is run by

Rebekah Mercer Rebekah Mercer (born December 6, 1973) is an American heiress and Republican political donor, and director of the Mercer Family Foundation. Mercer began overseeing day-to-day operations of political projects for the Mercer family when the M ...

, the daughter of computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. Under Rebekah’s leadership, the family foundation invested about $70 million into

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causes between 2009 and 2014. The foundation has also donated to groups critical of climate change activism.

Activities

The foundation's main interests are in the fields of public policy, higher education, and science. The foundation has donated to organizations and institutions, including

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, Illinois Policy Institute,

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, and SUNY Stony Brook. Mercer provides funding to the Home Depot Foundation, whose mission is to "improve the homes and lives of U.S. military veterans and their families." The Mercer Family Foundation has lobbied against efforts to fully fund the

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. The organization has been linked to the funding of

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and other U.S. far-right entities. Similar allegations have been made about links to members of the UK government.

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* {{WikidataCoord Political and economic research foundations based in the United States Non-profit organizations based in New York City Climate change denial Conservative organizations in the United States