The nonprofit organization collecting private donations for President Donald Trump’s new ballroom in the White House and other projects in Washington, D.C., has seen contributions skyrocket, according to IRS filings.
The Trust for the National Mall, the nonprofit group raising private funds to pay for the ballroom, collected over $320 million in 2025, up from $9.5 million it received in donations and grants in 2024, filings posted to its website show. It is unclear how much of the donations collected by the trust were allocated toward the ballroom.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House and The Trust for the National Mall for comment.
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Construction continues on the White House Ballroom, as seen from the Washington Monument, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)The trust is a private organization that holds public partnerships, including with the National Park Service, and is dedicated to the restoration and beautification of the National Mall, the White House, and Presidents Park.
Private donors make their contributions to the ballroom through the nonprofit group, which manages their donations. The National Park Service and the White House are leading the project’s design and construction.
Trump has said that the ballroom itself will be privately funded from “Patriot” donations and cost around $400 million. The White House hopes it will be completed by the fall of 2028.
The president previously offered to build the ballroom for the Obama administration, according to strategist David Axelrod, who advised former President Barack Obama, but it was not taken up by the White House at the time.
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“This is a GIFT (ZERO taxpayer funding!) to the United States of America,” Trump said of his ballroom dreams earlier this year. “So that the White House would no longer be forced to use a cheap and unsafe “tent,” for big and important STATE EVENTS, Dinners, Meetings, Conferences, and already scheduled future INAUGURATIONS (for safety, security, and capacity purposes!), on a very wet, and subject to weather, White House lawn.”
Trump’s project was swiftly hit with a battle from critics who were outraged that the president tore down the White House’s East Wing to make way for the ballroom. The legal saga made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where justices ruled in Trump’s favor in August, allowing construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom to proceed.
