Visible amount
$18,000,000
Amount status
direct_external_commitment
Period
2019-2024
- EU Lobbying Spend & Funding Sources Research file / Tier 1
- Thorn Form 990 Financial Analysis Research file
Money flank
The Funder Map Behind the Coalition
The child-protection coalition is financed through documented foundation grants, corporate philanthropy, EU support, US public money to NCMEC, and product sales. Those rows show a funding environment; they do not by themselves prove coordinated direction. FACT INFERENCE
What the money records can carry
The maintained funding-flow table shows direct or bounded records around Thorn, Oak Foundation, WeProtect, End Violence Fund / Safe Online, and NCMEC. Each amount below is rendered from wave_one.funding_flows, not copied into this article as a second source of truth. FACT
The pattern is narrower than a command claim: Oak and Safe Online fund parts of the advocacy layer, EU and Oak money appear in WeProtect records, US DOJ money is documented for NCMEC, and DHS money to Thorn is recorded as product sales rather than grants. FACT Reading that as a shared policy ecosystem is analysis. INFERENCE
The recipient-side gap also remains visible. Thorn's public Schedule B donor identities are redacted, so unknown major donors stay unknown here rather than being filled in from adjacency. FACT
Funding-Flow Records
Amounts, bounds, and unknowns come from the shared annex dataset.
Visible amount
$3,000,000
Amount status
grantor_side_amount
Period
2024 grant list
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$700,000
Amount status
grantor_side_amount
Period
public grant list period not narrowed in maintained source
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$2,500,000+
Amount status
bounded_lower_bound
Period
public external-source period not narrowed in maintained source
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$400,000
Amount status
grantor_side_amount
Period
public external-source period not narrowed in maintained source
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$24,000,000+
Amount status
bounded_lower_bound_not_to_eclag_legal_entity
Period
2019 onward
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$1,900,000
Amount status
grantor_side_amount
Period
CSA Regulation campaign period
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
€904,106
Amount status
recipient_datacard_amount
Period
2024
- WeProtect Global Alliance & the Wider Network Research file / Tier 2
FACT
EU Internal Security Fund → WeProtect Global Alliance
Eu grant
Visible amount
€526,755
Amount status
recipient_datacard_amount
Period
2024
- WeProtect Global Alliance & the Wider Network Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$41,000,000-$43,000,000
Amount status
bounded_annual_range
Period
FY2016-FY2024
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
$4,300,000+
Amount status
bounded_lower_bound_sales_not_grants
Period
2018 onward
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
Visible amount
No public amount
Amount status
unknown_public_schedule_b_redacted
Period
FY2009-FY2024
- Thorn Form 990 Financial Analysis Research file
- EU Lobbying Spend & Funding Sources Research file / Tier 1
- Alliance Funding Map Research file / Tier 2
The boundary is part of the story
The article can say that Oak-backed organizations, Thorn, WeProtect, NCMEC, Safe Online, and technology firms occupy the same policy ecosystem. INFERENCE It cannot turn those money rows into a factual claim that one actor directed another's legislative position. The stronger documented point is the financial infrastructure around the child-protection frame, not a proven command chain.
The standing distinction on US-government cash remains intact: public federal money is documented for NCMEC, while DHS money to Thorn appears here as sales, not grants, and no public Thorn Schedule B donor identities are supplied by the recipient-side 990s. FACT