Which specific payments from the Eric Trump Foundation went to Trump-owned properties and how are they documented in IRS filings?

1. What the filings say: a 2016 snapshot of $145,145 paid to Trump properties

Newly obtained Form 990 data and subsequent press reporting document that the foundation’s 2016 filings (under the name Curetivity) show payments totaling roughly $145,145 directed to for‑profit businesses owned by the Trump family — a figure reported by Newsweek and compiled from the charity’s public tax return — with named recipients in coverage including Mar‑a‑Lago in Florida and the now‑defunct Trump SoHo in New York ^{[1] [4]}.

2. Earlier years: event costs routed to Trump golf clubs, including an $87,000 item

Investigations going back several years found the foundation’s golf‑event expenses rose sharply and that "hundreds of thousands" over time went directly to Trump Organization entities; Forbes reported one specific payment of $87,000 to the Trump golf course in Washington, D.C., tied to a separate St. Jude event, and the foundation’s IRS filings showed large tournament cost line items increasing in certain years ^{[2] [5]}.

3. Reimbursements and opaque accounting: the Trump National Golf Club entry

OpenSecrets and other reporting point to a notable accounting entry on filings that listed $271,365 from Trump National Golf Club as a “reimbursement,” described in the return as reimbursement for a payment by the foundation to a charitable organization on a specific date — an entry that demonstrates complex, sometimes circular money flows between the foundation and Trump‑owned entities ^[3].

4. Disclosure problems documented on Form 990 and Schedule L

Nonprofit experts and the Nonprofit Quarterly highlight that until 2014 the foundation failed to disclose use of Trump‑owned golf courses on Schedule L (“Transactions with Interested Persons”) and omitted payments to those courses from event‑expense reporting — omissions that the nonprofit press and watchdogs say should have been disclosed on the foundation’s Form 990 ^[6].

5. How reporters reconstructed the trail from IRS filings to properties

Journalists relied on the foundation’s public Form 990 filings plus interviews and internal sources to tie line‑item expense figures to specific Trump properties; Forbes and Newsweek aggregated the for‑profit payees listed on returns and cross‑checked them against event locations and vendor names to conclude which payments went to Trump‑owned businesses ^{[7] [1] [5]}.

6. Competing claims and legal context

Eric Trump and foundation spokespeople at times asserted that donors were informed or that Trump properties did not charge for events, but the tax records and former staff accounts cited by Forbes and others contradict those claims and show explicit payments from charitable funds to Trump businesses ^{[7] [2]}. The New York attorney general later opened probes into the foundation’s practices, and advocacy groups point to potential self‑dealing issues under nonprofit law; defenders argue some transactions reflect ordinary event costs rather than illicit enrichment, but the filings’ disclosure gaps fueled scrutiny ^{[7] [4] [6]}.

7. What the filings do not show or what remains unclear

The public reporting and the excerpts available here document totals and named examples but do not provide a complete, line‑by‑line ledger of every vendor invoice; therefore precise invoices tying each dollar to a named Trump entity beyond the reported totals (e.g., the full breakdown that would appear in vendor attachments) are not included in the materials provided to this analysis ^{[1] [5]}.