“Parents Defending Education” is overwhelmingly funded by big donors’ dark money rather than by “concerned parents.”
shows that the group raised more than $3.1 million in its first year, even though many genuinely local grassroots efforts take years to raise that much money. That form does not reveal how much money PDE raised in 2022, during the congressional midterm elections; the amount it received to fuel its operations last year is likely even higher than 2021. The $3.1 million disclosed for 2021 also does not include any money raised that year by PDE Action, its advocacy arm.
What does the new filing show? First, it reveals that although PDE describes itself as a group of concerned parents, almost all of its funding came from major donors rather than dues from parents. Specifically, PDE raised only $77,272 from membership dues out of the $3,178,345 it was given that year by funders who were not members.
That is, only 2 percent of the group’s funding came from local parents who paid a $10 fee for membership. The vast majority of PDE’s funding comes from big secret sources underwriting the attacks on public education, sources that paid the group a lot more than $10 in membership dues. PDE’s figure and its disclosed fee suggest that around 7,700 people have paid dues, which would constitute .01 percent of all of the parents in the U.S. It’s a case study in the squeaky wheel getting the grease.
Notably, the dues paid by local parents barely covered the bonus Nicole Neily paid herself in 2021, as PDE’s leader and the president of its board. Neily’s base salary was $125,000, and on top of that compensation and retirement funding, she received an additional bonus of $67,500, or literally 50 percent of her base salary. It would be unusual if any of her dues-paying members ever received such a large bonus.
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