In 2006, according to foundation records, Ms. Shuman earned $711,582 and Ms. Strumpf earned $986,406.
He donated more than $4 million from his fortune and committed one-third of the proceeds from his next Jack Ryan movie, according to his lawyer and foundation records.
Another prominent conservative family, the Coors of Colorado, has also provided consistent backing for several conservative Western land-use groups through a foundation, records show.
When he ended a 1995 affair with a woman he met online, the Manhattan penthouse they had shared was cleared out by Ms. Gorshow and the foundation's director of operations, according to foundation records.
He has traveled throughout the South and met artists like Boo Hanks, 84, a singer and guitar player, who, with the help of the foundation, recorded his first album at 79.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals, which has New Jersey offices, also made a major gift to Drumthwacket at a politically opportune time, according to foundation records.
As a pleasant surprise-ending to a terribly mismanaged career, they're exceedingly well put-together ("Mr. Heartache" from County Music Foundations Records and "The Edge" by Epic).
The results? "We are probably batting between.300 and.500," Mr. Knickman said of the foundation's record.
The two companies came together to create an American market for heavy, sour crude oil, now the foundation of record refining margins, but the partnership suffered as Venezuela's government veered left under President Hugo Chávez.
Now he's releasing his first solo album, "The Slow Wonder," under the name A.C. Newman -- his initials "sound more rock, like AC/DC," he explains -- having received a grant from a Canadian foundation to record it.
