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Donors Trust was characterized as "a dark-money ATM funding the conservative movement," referring to dark money, that is, funds given to nonprofit organizations that can receive unlimited donations and are not required to disclose their donors,{{cite web |year=2015 |title=Political Nonprofits |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_summ.php |website=opensecrets.org |publisher=Center for Responsive Politics |accessdate=March 10, 2015}} and referring metaphorically to automatic teller machines (ATMs), by The Guardian,{{cite news |title=Secretive donors gave US climate denial groups $125m over three years |url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/secretive-donors-gave-us-climate-denial-groups-125m-over-three-years |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate= 2015-06-11 |first1=Suzanne |last1=Goldenberg |authorlink1=Suzanne Goldenberg |first2=Helena |last2=Bengtsson |date=June 9, 2015 |quote=The anonymous cash flow came from two secretive organisations – the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund – that have been called the “Dark Money ATM” of the conservative movement.}} Salon,{{cite news |date=October 23, 2013 |title=Defying Koch cash and D.C. gridlock, airport town will vote on a $15 minimum wage |first=Josh |last=Eidelson |accessdate=August 19, 2015 |publisher=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/defying_koch_cash_and_d_c_gridlock_airport_town_will_vote_on_a_15_minimum_wage/ |quote=Federal filings show donations from Donors Trust — a group supported by Charles and David Koch that Mother Jones’ Andrew Kroll called the “dark-money ATM of the conservative movement”...}} the National Review, the Business Insider, The American Spectator,{{cite news |last1=Zeiser |first1=Bill |title=Is The “Dark-Money” Apocalypse Upon Us? |magazine=The American Spectator |url=http://spectator.org/blog/60484/dark-money-apocalypse-upon-us |date=September 24, 2014 |accessdate=August 19, 2015 |quote=Kroll wrote a piece early last year branding DonorsTrust, a conservative-leaning donor advised fund, as the "Dark Money ATM of the Conservative Movement."}} the Huffington Post,{{cite web |title=The One Percenters: How A Handful Of California Power Brokers Work To Further Inequality |first=Bill |last=Raden |date=February 2, 2015 |accessdate=March 15, 2015 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/california-one-percent_n_6714666.html |work=Huffington Post |quote=Dubbed “the dark money ATM of the conservative movement,” DT (and its sister trust, Donors Capital Fund), is a “donor advised fund” that offers its wealthy libertarian patrons both anonymity and guarantees of ideological purity by funding assaults on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools and economic regulations of all stripes.}} Democracy Now!,{{cite news |title=Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/19/donors_trust_little_known_group_helps |first=Amy |last=Goodman |authorlink=Amy Goodman |date=February 19, 2013 |accessdate=March 15, 2015 |work=Democracy Now! |quote=The most detailed accounting to date shows Donors Trust funds a wish list of right-wing causes, prompting Mother Jones magazine to label it "the dark-money ATM of the right."}} and Moyers and Company.{{cite news |title=Donors Trust: The ATM for Climate Denial |date=February 21, 2013 |first=Theresa |last=Riley |work=Moyers and Company |publisher=Public Affairs Television |accessdate=June 9, 2015 |url=http://billmoyers.com/2013/02/21/donors-trust-the-atm-for-climate-denial/ |quote=According to Mother Jones and The Guardian newspaper, over the past decade, a little-known group called Donors Trust has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy contributors to a host of right-wing organizations, advocacy groups and think tanks. MJ‘s Andy Kroll dubs it the “dark-money ATM of the right” because of all the conservative campaigns the group had bankrolled.}} Donors Trust was characterized as "the ATM for climate denial" by Moyers and Company and Democracy Now!.