

A representative declined to comment for this article or to confirm this accounting of Koch’s contributions. Koch Foundation’s IRS 990 forms and a search of news articles, annual reports, and other public records. The details of Julia Koch’s donations are based on the David H. In the last two years, Julia Koch has purchased three new homes worth more than $170 million and embarked on a renovation of her existing $40 million townhouse. It does not appear the spending slowdown is the result of a cash crunch. The foundation is slowly working through its dwindling funds, which experts say could signal a planned wind-down. Koch Foundation-founded by the manufacturing titan and now helmed by his wife, the richest woman in America-appears to have gotten rid of its staff and has not received any new funding since Koch’s death. Since David’s death in 2019, however, his widow appears to have sharply slowed her public giving-donating less than $4 million between 20, the last year for which records are available.

Billionaires David and Julia Koch were best known as dark-money mega-donors to conservative causes and candidates, but they also gave tens of millions of dollars to charity each year.
