What specific transactions did the Forbes report identify between the Eric Trump Foundation and Trump Organization properties?

1. The headline number: roughly $1.2 million paid to Trump properties

Forbes reported that, based on tax filings and related documents, the Eric Trump Foundation paid the Trump Organization more than $1.2 million over the period Forbes examined for expenses tied to the foundation’s charity events — money that the foundation had previously suggested would go primarily to charitable beneficiaries and that Eric Trump had characterized as using family assets “100% free of charge” ^{[1] [4]}.

2. Year-by-year event charges at Trump National Westchester and spikes after 2011

The filings reviewed by Forbes and summarized in subsequent outlets show the foundation booked growing expenses for its Westchester golf invitational: about $59,085 in 2012, jumping to $230,080 in 2013 and $242,294 in 2014, figures that Forbes said were inconsistent with earlier representations that the course was provided free and which former club staff described as atypically large for a one-day charity event ^{[3] [5] [1]}.

3. Specific vendor line: $87,665 to Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C.

Separately, tax filings cited by media and archived reporting show a 2014 payment of $87,665 from the Eric Trump Foundation to the Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., for fundraising-event-related charges — a concrete single-payment example Forbes and other outlets highlighted to illustrate how donor dollars flowed to Trump-owned venues ^{[3] [5]}.

4. Redirections, re‑donations and a $100,000 pass‑through flagged by Forbes

Forbes also reported that more than $500,000 raised by the Eric Trump Foundation was re‑donated to other charities, and that some of those groups were connected to Trump family interests and later paid to hold events at Trump courses; in one notable instance Forbes said the Donald J. Trump Foundation gave $100,000 to the Eric Trump Foundation and that money ultimately helped cover fees that benefited Trump businesses, a transaction Forbes characterized as effectively routing donor funds into company revenue ^{[1] [2] [6]}.

5. Context, denials and the limits of the public record

Eric Trump disputed Forbes’ implication that the Trump Organization profited and maintained that the business didn’t make money from the foundation’s activities; the Trump camp said donors were informed when funds were redirected and that the foundation raised millions for St. Jude, a claim corroborated in part by filings and subsequent press coverage ^{[7] [2]}. At the same time, Reuters and other outlets reported New York’s attorney general opened an inquiry into the payments cited by Forbes, and fact-checkers later noted the Forbes findings were not litigated in the state’s later Trump Foundation suit — underscoring that reporting and regulatory review covered the transactions but did not resolve all legal questions in public court filings ^{[8] [9]}.

6. What the Forbes reporting does — and does not — prove

Forbes produced line-item figures and donor-path examples showing foundation payments to Trump properties and redirections to other nonprofits that, in turn, engaged Trump venues; those line items and pass-throughs are documented in the sources cited. What Forbes did not, and the public record does not fully establish without further legal findings, is whether every such payment violated tax or state self‑dealing laws or whether donors uniformly received the disclosures the foundation later claimed were given — matters that became the subject of regulatory attention but are not definitively adjudicated in the articles cited here ^{[1] [8] [9]}.