The Washington Post via Getty Images Billionaires Rebekah Mercer, left, and her father, Robert, at the Heartland Institute’s annual International Conference on Climate Change in March 2017. That’s down from the approximately $19 million they gave to 44 nonprofits one year earlier. “It appears that climate denial is a priority of the Mercer family,” Kert Davies, director of the Climate Investigations Center, told HuffPost. The Mercers gave the group $500,000 in 2017, up from $200,000 the previous two years. The foundation gave the museum $625,000 in 2017, new tax filings show.

Source: Huffington Post February 27, 2019 18:11 UTC