According to the Center For Media And Democracy’s Exposed project, “28 organizations controlled by Charles Koch, his family, and Koch Industries executives spent a combined $1.1 billion, primarily to influence public policy and politics in the U.S., and had net revenues of $2.7 billion.” CMD’s Connor Gibson reported that Koch money “has financed groups involved in extremist activity, including the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In 2022, Koch Industries is still financing many politicians who worked to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election, despite signaling to Politico that it would discontinue such support.”
“In 2020 alone,” Gibson pointed out (https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/08/koch-controlled-organizations-spent-more-than-1-1-billion-during-the-2020-election-cycle/), “Koch-controlled organizations raised over $2.2 billion dollars—more than four times what they collectively raised the previous year. Before 2020, the combined revenue of Koch-controlled nonprofit organizations never reached the $1-billion threshold, with $501.1 million in net revenue in 2019, and approximately $650 million in 2018.”
According to Gibson, Charles Koch’s “donor network remains unique in terms of its size and its top-down control by executives of a single company. … [with] the bulk of Koch’s ‘Stand Together’ cluster of groups ha[ving] coordinated around election and policy priorities.”