ICC “Fiscal Sponsorship”
The Academic Engagement Network, and its project Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement, are branches of the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), a registered 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization since 2002. While fiscal sponsorships are common in the non-profit sector, rarely are the employees of the sponsored organization listed as employees of the parent organization—as is the case for the ICC and AEN. The AEN is wholly funded and operated by the ICC, while portraying itself as independent, objective experts on DEI and academic freedom. This tax loophole also allows the AEN to accept large donations without disclosing its detailed revenue or expenditure.
The ICC allocates about 15% of its annual expenses to the AEN. During the fiscal year ending June 2023, the ICC gave over $3.08 million to the AEN out of its total $24.8 million revenue. AEN programs also benefit from the millions more the ICC spends on research services, campus services, public affairs, and its head operations base in Washington D.C. Unsurprisingly, the ICC profited enormously from antisemitism scaremongering on campuses post Oct 7, 2023. Its overall donation revenue skyrocketed from over $9.72 million in June 2023 to over $25.15 million in June 2024.
ICC/AEN Donors and Megadonors
The AEN was launched in 2015 with $2 million in lead funding from the Lynn and Charles Schusterman Family Foundation—where AEN founder Mark Yudof has since been employed as a “grantee consultant”—and the Jim Joseph Foundation, also known as the Shimon Ben-Joseph Foundation. In the ensuing 9 years, the the AEN has received earmarked contributions from
- Lynn and Charles Schusterman Family Foundation ($2.89 million+)
- Jim Joseph Foundation (2.44 million)
- Marcus Foundation ($500,000+)
- Leon Levy Foundation ($975,000)
- Alan and Annette Leve Family Foundation ($80,000)
- Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund ($149,000)
- Snider Foundation ($313,412)
- Rosenfeld Foundation ($12,000)
- Ellen and Ronald Block Family Foundation ($25,000)
- Ann and Jeremy Pava’s Micah Philanthropies ($100,000)
- Natan Fund (amount unknown)
- Jewish National Fund-USA (100K annual grant as of 2024)
ICC donations come from prolific zionist philanthropists like ICC Trustees Adam Milstein (Milstein Family Foundation), Archie Gottesman (Gottesman Fund, Paul and Jerry Gottesman Foundation), Dorothy Tananbaum (Doris and Stanely Tanenbaum Foundation), and Tina Price; mega AIPAC and Republican party benefactors like Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus, Private Equity magnate Paul Singer, Miriam Adelson‘s Maccabee Task Force, oil heiress Stacey Schusterman (Schusterman Family Foundation), former Trump lawyer and ex-US ambassador to Israel David Feldman (Feldman Foundation), Jonathan and Joanna Jacobson (One8 Foundation, Jacobson Family Foundation), WhatsApp founder Jan Koum (Koum Family Foundation), oil magnate Adam Beren, Paul Kester (via the Kenneth Leventhal Foundation), the Koret Foundation, the Becker Foundation, and numerous Donor-Advised dark money funds (DAFs) like the Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Charitable Fund, Schwab Charitable Fund, Jewish National Fund USA, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater LA, and others.
ICC and AEN Funding Map, 2015-2024