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- Assets: $15,885,291 (2005)
- Grants Awarded: $1,063,961 (2005)
The Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust was founded by Stewart Rawlings Mott (born 1937), a General Motors heir who heads Mott Associates in New York. The building that Mr. Mott purchased in 1974 to be both his home and his Fund's headquarters also houses the Washington, D.C. branch office of the American Civil Liberties Union. Over the years, Mott has opened his building for use by a wide range of "progressive-liberal advocacy organizations" involved in such issues as handgun control, social justice, civil rights, civil liberties, campaign finance reform, abortion rights, gay and lesbian rights, anti-military campaigns, anti-war and anti-nuclear crusades, and anti-drug war efforts.
The Executive Director of Mott Charitable Trust is Conrad Martin, who also serves the Executive Director of the Fund for Constitutional Government, a tax-exempt publicly supported foundation created to “eliminate corruption in government and foster constitutional principals of governance.”
Mott Charitable Trust characterizes its grant-making policy as follows: "Preference is given to activist projects seeking tangible change rather than research-oriented activities, [projects that] are national in scope and creative in nature." The Trust supports organizations that are active in the following four areas of national and international advocacy:
(a) Peace, Arms Control and Foreign Policy: The Trust is a member of the Peace and Security Funders Group, which is an unincorporated association of individual philanthropists and foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes.
(b) Population Issues, International Family Planning and Reproductive Rights: The Trust supports universal access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
(c) Government Reform and Public Policy: The Trust funds organizations that advocate for amnesty and expanded rights for illegal immigrants, racial preferences in the workplace and academia, and the elimination of such national security measures as the Patriot Act.
(d) Human Rights, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: This category overlaps considerably with the previous category.
The list of Mott Charitable Trust grantees includes, among others: the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the American Civil Liberties Union; the People for the American Way Foundation; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Institute for Public Accuracy; Amnesty International; the National Abortion Federation; the Peace Action Fund; the National Youth Advocacy Coalition; the Feminist Press; the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice; the Marijuana Policy Project Foundation; the Free Mumia Coalition; the Guacamole Fund; the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies; the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL); the Center for Justice and International Law; Greenpeace; Physicians for Social Responsibility; the Animal Protection Fund; Amigos Bravos; the Asia Pacific Center for Peace and Justice; Americans for Democratic Action; Catholics for a Free Choice; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; the National Security Archive; the Women’s Action for New Directions Education Fund; Ayuda; the Social and Environmental Enterprise; the United Nations Committee on Disarmament; Public Broadcasting System; National Public Radio; the Native American Rights Fund; Youth Action; Dialogue on Diversity; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Center for Public Integrity; the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: the League of Conservation Voters; the the Institute for Women’s Policy Research; the The Nation Institute; the National Women’s Law Center; the McGovern Library; Riverkeeper; the Council for a Livable World Education Fund; the Institute for Policy Studies; the Peace Development Fund; Women for Women; Population Action International; Planned Parenthood; Choice USA; the D.C. Prisoner’s Project; Equal Justice Works; Unifem; the Agape Foundation; Free the Slaves; the Center for International Policy; the Women’s Alliance; the Alan Guttmacher Institute; the Global Security Institute; the Friends Committee on National Legislation; the Center for Investigative Reporting; the Florence Fund; the National Council for Research on Women; the International Museum of Women; the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities; and Earth Action Network.
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