Conservative Agenda Project

The Conservative Agenda Project is a right-leaning policy nonprofit organization that seeks to understand how various influences affect freedoms, security, and equality. While the Conservative Agenda Project states that its mission is to educate the public about these issues, the organization does not have a website nor any online presence. 1

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Formation:

2009

President:

Daniel Oliver

President’s Salary (2021):

$268,000 2

Location: Washington, DC View on map
Tax ID: 26-4029303
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $12,285 Revenue: $342,316 Expenses: $339,763

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    Funding

    Tax filings confirm donations from DonorsTrust ($339,000 in 2021). 3 DonorsTrust appears to be the primary funder of the Conservative Agenda Project. Except for tax year 2017 (DonorsTrust contributed $120,000 and Conservative Agenda Project reported $201,000 in revenue), 4 5 tax filings confirm that donations from DonorsTrust match the total revenue reported by the Conservative Agenda Project from 2009 to 2021. 6 7

    Board of Directors

    Daniel Oliver is the chair of the Education and Research Institute, a former chair and executive editor of National Review, a senior advisor to the White House Writers Group (WHWG), and chair emeritus at the Pacific Research Institute. During the Reagan administration, Oliver worked as general counsel at both the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture. Oliver is a former senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission. 8

    Kenneth Cribb, Jr. is a trustee and counselor to the Federalist Society, a trustee of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and sits on the board of Young America’s Foundation. Cribb formerly worked as president of the Collegiate Network, the Council for National Policy, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Cribb is a former senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation. 9

    Charles Kesler is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and editor of the Claremont Review of Books. Kesler is a former director of the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World and a former vice chair of the advisory committee to the U.S. Congress’s James Madison Commemoration Commission. 10

    Michael Keenan Jones formerly worked as a special assistant and speechwriter in the Reagan administration and as a coalition director for George H.W. Bush’s 1998 presidential campaign. 11

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $12,285 $342,316 $339,763 View
    2024 $9,732 $325,000 $329,646
    2023 $14,378 $301,250 $317,231 View
    2022 $30,517 $391,100 $406,100 View
    2021 $47,122 $339,000 $347,725 View
    2020 $58,846 $297,000 $254,752 View
    2019 $13,812 $247,000 $261,212 View

    Prior year filings: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    • Number of Employees: 1

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Daniel OliverPRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR$268,000

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $1,352,000
    • Number of Grants: 4
    • Number of Funders: 1

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $391,0002022 Donors Trust Incfor general operations
    $339,0002021 Donors Trust Incfor general operations
    $325,0002024 Donors Trust Incfor general operations
    $297,0002020 Donors Trust Incfor general operations

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    References

    1. The Conservative Agenda Project, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2020, Part III, Line 1.
    2. The Conservative Agenda Project, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2021, Part VII, Section A, Line 1a.
    3. DonorsTrust, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2021, Schedule I, Part II.
    4. DonorsTrust, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2017, Schedule I, Part II.
    5. The Conservative Agenda Project, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2017, Part I, Line 12.
    6. The Conservative Agenda Project, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2009-2016 and 2018-2021, Part I, Line 12.
    7. DonorsTrust, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2009-2016 and 2018-2021, Schedule I, Part II.
    8. “Daniel Oliver.” WHWG. Accessed July 10, 2023. https://www.whwg.com/daniel-oliver.
    9. “T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.” Young America’s Foundation. Accessed July 6, 2023. https://www.yaf.org/staff/t-kenneth-cribb-jr/.
    10. “Charles R. Kesler.” The Claremont Institute. Accessed July 6, 2023. https://www.claremont.org/scholar-bio/charles-r-Kesler/.
    11. Fraga, Brian. “Meet the Chaplain: Fr. Michael K. Jones – Fairfield County Chapter.” Legatus, May 15, 2017. Accessed July 10, 2023. https://legatus.org/news/meet-the-chaplain-fr-michael-k-jones-fairfield-county-chapter.