Shadowy Leo Group Donates Millions to Right Wing Organizations Before Closing its Doors

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Accountable.US obtained the federal tax forms of the prolific Leonard Leo-run group BH fund. The secretive group has been used to seemingly shuffle millions of dollars across Leo’s shadow network of right-wing organizations while shielding their donors’ identities. 

The 990 forms revealed that in the same year that Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust received an unprecedented $1.6 billion donation from mega-donor Barre Seid, he began offloading his other nonprofit entities. In 2021, Leo started consolidating his shadow network into an ever-growing war chest. Prior to the BH fund closing its doors, the organization made some of its most significant contributions to other Leo-run front groups, including a more than $4 million grant to  Rule of Law Trust and other organizations that act as ATMs for the far right.