Leading conservative judicial activist poured $216M into causes in 12-month span: tax forms

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EXCLUSIVE: A group affiliated with Leonard Leo, a top conservative judicial activist, poured $216 million into causes over the course of a year, tax forms obtained by Fox News Digital show.

The Marble Freedom Trust, a nonprofit for which Leo acts as chairman, has found itself under the microscope of media outlets and Democratic politicians such as Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse due to Leo's involvement in the conservative judicial sphere.

During its 2022 fiscal year, the group gave large sums of money to three other entities.

"Liberals, led by over $1 billion a year from the foreign-funded Arabella Advisors network, have dominated dark money in politics," a Marble Freedom Trust spokesperson told Fox News Digital."In the face of such lopsided spending, Marble Freedom Trust is working to even the playing field so that conservatives can crush liberal dominance."

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According to the Marble Freedom Trust's newest tax forms, Leo's group disbursed $216.8 million between May 2022 and May 2023, an increase of $34.1 million over the previous year, when it handed out $182 million in donations.

The new tax documents show the nonprofit pushed a bulk of this cash — $153.7 million — to the Schwab Charitable Fund, a donor-advised fund