DOMINO'S FOUNDATION Membership, Structure, Finances As a private foundation, Domino's Foun

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DOMINO'S FOUNDATION
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Membership, Structure, Finances

   As a private foundation, Domino's Foundation is not a membership
organization.

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Financial Data

   Grant disbursements rose from $157,000 in 1987 to $1.88 million in
1992, essentially all funds provided by Thomas S. Monaghan.

   In 1992, the foundation's main income sources were:

   + Domino's Pizza:                          $1,616,555
   + US Agency for International Development    $250,000
   + Monaghan Family Limited Partnership        $100,000

   Major grants to Catholic Right Wing Organizations in 1990-92
(including funds committed but not distributed) were:

   + Mission Chapels Foundation             $2.2 million
     (Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua)
   + Franciscan University of Steubenville      $967,000
   + Legatus                                    $800,000
   + Catholic Church in Honduras                $505,000
     (Fr. Silvestre's San Pedro Sula
     missionary project)
   + Escuela Internacional Sampedrana           $500,000
     (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
   + Papal Foundation                           $900,000
   + John Paul II Cultural Foundation           $200,000
     Detroit
   + Servant Ministries                         $150,000
     (TV production company associated
     with Word of God / Sword of the Spirit)
   + Diocese of Steubenville Holy Family Center $100,000
   + Eternal Word TV Network                     $70,000
   + Archdiocese of Managua                      $40,000
   + Ecclesiastical Communications Corp., NY     $30,000
   + Christendom College                         $13,000
   + Holy See Mission to UN                      $12,500
   + Institute on Religious Life, Chicago        $11,000
   + Cambridge Center for the Study of           $10,000
     Faith and Culture, Boston
   + Feminists for Life Education Project        $10,000
     Kansas City
   + Brownson Institute, Notre Dame               $5,000
   + Evangelization 2000                          $3,000
     Lincroft, NJ

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Policies and Activities

   Founded by Domino's Pizza owner, Thomas S. Monaghan in 1987, this
foundation is a primary conduit for his charitable giving. Apart from
the Vatican and local Michigan charities, the chief beneficiaries have
been conservative Catholic causes with ties to the Ann Arbor,
Michigan-based charismatic Word of God-Sword of the Spirit network
[investigated by the Church for cult-like activities]. Monaghan insists
that, though he admires WG-SS, he is not a member.

   In 1990-1992, Monaghan used the foundation to give almost $1 million
to Franciscan University of Steubenville, whose president, Fr. Michael
Scanlan, headed a Word of God-linked community in Steubenville and
transformed the university into an education and conference center for
far-right charismatics.

   Word of God-linked projects in Central America have been a primary
focus of Monaghan's giving from the foundation's beginning. In 1990 to
1992, he gave more than $1 million to Central American projects
sponsored by Fr. Enrique Silvestre, leader of a Sword of the Spirit
branch in Honduras. During the same period, he created a chain of
Honduran businesses designed to subsidize Silvestre's work and made land
acquisitions in that country. Monaghan also cooperated with WG member
Michael J. Healy, Dean of the Faculty at Franciscan University of
Steubenville, on plans to create a technical school in Honduras.
Domino's Honduran projects also received funding during the Reagan-Bush
years from the US Agency for International Development. At a time when
Honduras was the main staging ground for contra attacks on the
Sandinista-led Nicaragua, Monaghan hired an anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan
exile to run the Honduran program. Though Monaghan told the liberal
*National Catholic Reporter* that his Honduran programs had not
political motivation, in an interview with the *Conservative Digest* he
described his belief that US failure to support the contras could lead
to Communist takeovers in El Salvador, Panama, and Mexico, ultimately
confronting the United States with a "Soviet client state along our
southern border."

   Largely through this foundation, Monaghan also provided $3.5 million
of the $4.5 million cost of a new cathedral--to replace one destroyed in
a 1972 earthquake--for Managua's Cardinal Obando y Bravo. Monaghan
offered the money in response to an appeal issued by President Violeta
Charmorro after she defeated the Sandinistas in the national elections.
Chamorro and the cardinal have also enjoyed substantial support from
other key elements of the Catholic right-wing.

   Monaghan has also provided at least $100,000 for the televangelism
programs of Word of God-Sword of the Spirit cofounder Ralph Martin, who
serves with him on the FUS board, and of Sword of the Spirit
televangelist Fr. John Bertolucci. Both Martin and Monaghan were
inducted into the Knights of Malta in the late 1980s and participated in
a January 199 ceremony which featured a keynote address by outgoing US
president Ronald Reagan.

Though Monaghan is also a substantial funder of the anti-choice
movement, most of his antichoice giving is from personal funds not
funnelled through the foundation (The only antichoice group listed among
the foundation's 1990-92 grant recipients in Feminists for Life). As of
1989, he acknowledged having given $60,000 to the Michigan Committee to
End Tax Funded Abortion. The National Organization for Women and other
women's groups contended that his actual antichoice giving totalled at
least $500,000 in the 1980s, including sizable donations to Randall
Terry's Operation Rescue.

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Officers

Monaghan, Thomas Stephen, President
Monaghan, Marjorie, Secretary
Skinner, Robert J., Treasurer (Ann Arbor philanthropist, described
   by Monaghan as his "mentor")
Kanitz, Betsy, Assistant Secretary

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Information from:

Catholics For A Free Choice (CFFC)
1436 U Street NW #301
Washington, DC 20009
202-986-6093

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