Robert W. Holmes, Jr.
Vice president for legal and
external affairs, Mass.
College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences
Involved with: Mabel Louise
Riley Foundation
Issue: Is foundation trustee
and was legal counsel for
Massachusetts Golf
Association last year when it
received the foundation’s
second-largest grant, an
amount five times the average
foundation grant of $50,000.
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Martin S. Kaplan
Hale and Dorr
Involved with: V. Kann
Rasmussen Foundation,
Germeshausen Foundation,
Harold and Esther Edgerton
Family Foundation
Issue: Helps direct millions of
dollars in donations to his
alma mater, while his law firm
collects six-figure fees for
legal, accounting, and
investment management
work.
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James L. Alexander
Alexander & Alexander
Chicago, Ill.
Involved with: Elizabeth
Morse Charitable Trust,
Elizabeth Morse Genius
Charitable Trust
Issue: Reported working fulltime
for one foundation and
20 hours a week for the other,
while taking annual trustee
fees of more than half a
million dollars, plus
unspecified “administrative
expenses.”
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John P. Keegan
Christiansen, Jube & Keegan
Shrewsbury, N.J.
Involved with: Charles
Edison Fund, Thomas Alva
Edison Preservation
Foundation, Elsie E. and
Joseph W. Beck Foundation
Issue: Reports that he works
full-time for one foundation
and 30 hours a week for a
second, while billing a third for
legal fees.
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Thomas A. Keller III
Moss & Barnett
Minneapolis, Minn.
Involved with: Edelstein
Family Foundation
Ethical issue: Increased his
trustee fee tenfold, to
$206,000, after last surviving
member of founding family
died.
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