Project Sentinel
Confidential · May 2026
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Strategic Plan · May 2026
Venture Philanthropy — Defending American Institutions & Civic Order
A fund that fights anti-American extremism in U.S. institutions through strategic grantmaking to expose and trigger federal investigations.
To renew and strengthen the moral and cultural values of the United States by upholding our founding Judeo-Christian principles and the civic fabric rooted in equal dignity, shared purpose, and the merit-based promise that allows a free capitalist society to flourish.
Project Sentinel will be the nation's most effective venture-philanthropy engine combating extremism, anti-Americanism, terrorist-aligned networks, and antisemitism while defending Judeo-Christian civic values and the institutions that sustain free societies.
Project Sentinel exists to investigate, expose, and hold accountable American organizations and foreign networks undermining our civic institutions — and to disrupt them until leaders and organizations aligned with our values can compete and win on a level playing field.
We draw on the shared inheritance of America's Judeo-Christian tradition to strengthen the civic bonds that allow free societies to flourish.
Project Sentinel answers to no political party or ideological faction. Our allegiance is to the civic institutions, merit-based principles, and American values we exist to defend.
We judge people and ideas by their alignment with our mission and their performance, not their identities.
We act as a unified, efficient network — aligning intelligence, relationships, influence, and capital behind high-leverage campaigns designed to generate measurable enforcement impact, institutional accountability, clear outcomes, and high civic ROI.
We move with speed, discipline, and a willingness to take calculated risks. We speak plainly, act decisively, and refuse to bend to ideological pressure or fashionable orthodoxies that violate our vision, mission, and core principles.
Anti-American extremism has moved inside American institutions. Increasingly, anti-Judeo-Christian and anti-civic values operate through schools, universities, nonprofits, and civic bodies — often through coordinated activist networks and, at times, foreign influence.
Under Michael Teplitsky's leadership, the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN) demonstrated the grantmaking model: intelligence-driven exposure, coordinated escalation, and measurable accountability at one of America's most prominent universities. It worked. Project Sentinel now seeks to scale the model.
Legacy organizations were built for post-WWII threats — overt, far-right extremism. Old models don't map onto institutional capture from the left or foreign-influence networks. Legacy donors and grantees are intertwined with the same ecosystems sustaining the problem, creating conflicts that limit accountability.
Sentinel is built as a venture-philanthropy coordination and capital deployment platform that works through specialized grantees, researchers, legal experts, and former federal law enforcement professionals to investigate, escalate, and drive enforcement outcomes.
Every campaign follows the same sequencing. No stage advances until the previous one has produced a verifiable result.
Define the institutional failure and enforcement objective before any capital is committed. The target must be specific, documentable, and federally actionable.
Sentinel actively sources and cultivates relationships with influencers, street-level advocates, legal professionals, and nonprofit leaders suited to each campaign — vetting capabilities and building alignment before a campaign is formally launched.
Key Sentinel staff and advisors bring funding recommendations before the board for approval prior to any grant being issued. Capital is deployed only to operators who have been identified, evaluated, and formally endorsed.
Align grantees around both short- and long-term objectives including online communications, media engagement, evidence development, and congressional-grade research that withstands legal and public scrutiny before any escalation begins.
Translate findings into federal attention. Deploy through Congress and media to generate accountability pressure that institutions cannot ignore.
Support investigations through to consequence — legal pressure, local advocacy, and institutional accountability sustained until the institution responds.
Track outcomes, ensure adherence, and prepare the next action. Victory is measured in sustained institutional change, not headlines.
Sentinel does not expand into new verticals until this cycle has produced measurable enforcement outcomes.
Project Sentinel's Advisory Board — a national network of thinkers, authors, advocates, and public voices — serves as the initiative's primary sourcing engine. Their charge is to bridge the distance between ideas and action: drawing on their networks across media, law, policy, and public life to identify and refer organizations and individuals ready to bring their work to street-level advocacy.
In many cases, this means actively recruiting talent to Chicago, where Project Sentinel intends to flood the zone with a focused, coordinated fund. The Advisory Board is not asked to conduct due diligence — that is the work of staff. Their value is reach: connecting a national intellectual ecosystem to a local enforcement mission.
Once candidates are sourced, Sentinel staff conduct thorough evaluation of each prospective grantee across the following criteria:
Michael Teplitsky is the founder and president of the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern (CAAN), a civil rights organization focused on combating antisemitism and advancing institutional accountability within higher education. Professionally, he is a Managing Partner at Wynnchurch Capital, a leading private equity firm overseeing billions in assets across industrial and corporate sectors. Prior to Wynnchurch, he worked at Lime Rock Partners and began his career in investment banking at UBS. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management.
Myles Mendoza is a partner at Oak Rose Group and a strategic leader focused on education reform, civic renewal, and philanthropic entrepreneurship. He previously served as President of Empower Illinois, where he led the implementation of the Invest in Kids Act and helped build Illinois' largest K–12 scholarship organization, mobilizing more than $400 million to expand educational opportunity. Mendoza advises ultra-high-net-worth donors, nonprofit founders, and policy leaders on organizational strategy, institution-building, and scalable philanthropic initiatives.
Rose Bronstein is Vice President of the Bronstein Family Foundation and founder of Buckets Over Bullying, an organization focused on combating bullying and cyberbullying and strengthening child safety online. Through the Tech Safe Learning Coalition and related initiatives, her work centers on protecting children, supporting parents, and advancing accountability around digital harms impacting young people and schools.
Rob Bronstein is CEO and President of the Bronstein Family Foundation and co-founder of The Scion Group, the world's largest owner of off-campus student housing, with more than $11 billion in assets under management and housing for over 100,000 students nationwide. Alongside his business leadership, Bronstein has been active in philanthropic and civic initiatives related to education, Jewish communal life, and institutional reform.
David Chaimovitz is founder and CEO of Setna iO, one of the world's fastest-growing integrated aviation leasing, component supply, and MRO platforms serving commercial and business aviation markets globally. In addition to building multiple aerospace and industrial businesses, he has been engaged in philanthropic and civic discussions focused on institutional resilience, Jewish communal affairs, and long-term strategic investment.
Jason Kozin is CEO of Fulton Asset Management and co-founder of Setna iO. Through Fulton and affiliated platforms, he focuses on acquiring and scaling industrial businesses across aerospace, manufacturing, infrastructure, defense, and real estate. Kozin has also been involved in civic and philanthropic initiatives centered on institutional durability, education, and Jewish communal engagement.
Jim Perry is co-founder of Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the world's leading private equity firms, which has raised tens of billions of dollars and invested in more than 150 companies globally. Beyond his investment career, Perry has been a major supporter of Catholic education, entrepreneurship, and civic institutions, helping fund and advise organizations focused on faith, civil society, education reform, and human flourishing.
Barry Jonas is a former Department of Justice national security prosecutor with more than three decades of experience investigating terrorism, espionage, cybercrime, and foreign influence operations. He played senior roles in some of the most significant terrorism financing prosecutions in U.S. history, including cases involving Hamas and the Holy Land Foundation.
Jeff Parsons is a retired FBI Special Agent with more than 20 years of experience leading counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and espionage investigations. His work included investigations tied to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, ISIS networks, Russian intelligence operations, and domestic terrorism threats.
Senior team members from Jewish Cyber Shield will support digital intelligence, online threat monitoring, cyber investigations, and strategic analysis related to antisemitism, extremism, and foreign influence operations across digital platforms and networks.
Names and affiliations above are shared selectively with vetted donor prospects only.
| 2026 (½ yr) | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ||||
| Individual donations | $2,150,000 | $2,650,000 | $3,025,000 | $5,275,000 |
| Foundation donations | $500,000 | $750,000 | $1,850,000 | $2,100,000 |
| Earned revenue (False Claims Act) | — | — | — | $2,500,000 |
| Total Revenue | $2,650,000 | $3,400,000 | $4,875,000 | $9,875,000 |
| Expenses | ||||
| Operations | $392,500 | $701,750 | $840,750 | $877,293 |
| Grantmaking | $955,000 | $2,545,000 | $3,000,000 | $7,000,000 |
| Total Expenses | $1,347,500 | $3,246,750 | $3,840,750 | $7,877,293 |
| Net | $1,302,500 | $153,250 | $1,034,250 | $1,997,708 |
Founding board: 7 members × $250,000 give/get = $1.75M founding commitment. Earned revenue reflects a conservative estimate of False Claims Act recovery potential.
Project Sentinel's founding phase appropriately relies on founding board members underwriting operations. The long-term model moves away from this. The goal is to offer donors something a standard DAF does not: high-level intelligence, coordinated enforcement capacity, and a measurable return on philanthropic investment. Over time, operational costs are covered by the value Sentinel generates, not by donors absorbing overhead as a charitable act.
Investigate charging a percentage of donor grantmaking deployed through Sentinel to cover administrative costs — converting operational sustainability from a fundraising problem into a function of grantmaking volume. This aligns Sentinel's financial health directly with its mission output.
Where investigative work identifies federal fraud — including misuse of federal grants or fraudulent compliance certifications — a sealed qui tam complaint allows Sentinel (as relator) to collect 15–25% of any government recovery. Legal costs are borne by contingency counsel at no upfront cost.
Project Sentinel is evaluating several established organizations as potential fiscal sponsors. Willingness, organizational infrastructure, and mission alignment are all being researched at the following: