Aspen Institute Gets Millions in Federal Tax Dollars as Employees Fund Liberal Candidates, Causes

Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, speaks at a joint event organized by the German Marshall Fund, the American Council on Germany, the Atlantic Bridge, and the Aspen Institute at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Germany, on Jan. 20, 2022. Bernd Von Jutrczenka/Getty Images

Aspen Institute employees contributed more than $800,000 to Democratic candidates and causes between 2017 and 2021, even as their employer got $38.2 million in federal funds and paid for hundreds of foreign junkets taken by members of Congress and their staffs.

The Washington, D.C.-based liberal nonprofit has 609 employees and received more than $131 million in contributions and grants from all sources in 2020, according to Aspen’s latest available IRS tax return.