{"id":319,"date":"2026-06-09T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:44:09","slug":"bill-pultes-family-has-ties-to-the-family-secretive-christian-org-with-vast-political-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Bill Pulte\u2019s family has ties to \u201cThe Family,\u201d secretive Christian org with vast political influence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte\u2019s family has had extensive ties over two generations to leaders and financial backers of a secretive Christian organization that conducts shadow diplomacy around the world, according to public records and documents I obtained.<\/p>\n

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Pulte\u2019s grandfather, at one point one of the wealthiest men in the world, built a Fortune 500 company and gave tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to charity before his 2018 death. He was also friends with Doug Coe, died in 2017 after decades leading the secretive, controversial Fellowship Foundation that built and sustained a global right-wing network including dictators, lobbyists, and corrupt millionaires largely united against labor, LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

Better known as The Family, The Fellowship runs the National Prayer Breakfast and the congressional residence on Capitol Hill called C Street.<\/p>\n

Pulte\u2019s father, Mark, like others of the patriarch\u2019s progeny, has kept a hand in the grandfather\u2019s work, including funding religious charities with Fellowship ties.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear whether Pulte\u2019s grandfather, after whom he\u2019s named, passed on any of his Fellowship relationships to his grandson.<\/p>\n

If Pulte is personally connected to The Fellowship, he\u2019d hardly be alone in the administration\u2019s upper ranks.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio used to live at the C Street townhouse, as did Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy to the United Kingdom, former \u201cApprentice\u201d producer Mark Burnett, is a regular at The Fellowship\u2019s National Prayer Breakfast.<\/p>\n

That said, I found no public indication that Pulte has direct, personal ties to The Fellowship. Coe died in 2017 and even before that, Pulte\u2019s philanthropy focused primarily on giving cash to individuals rather than charities pushing the theocratic vision common among Fellowship recipients.<\/p>\n

But Pulte also claimed to have been uniquely close to his grandfather, Coe\u2019s close friend.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising that the Pulte family, based in Michigan, has ties to Fellowship insiders and funders. The Fellowship has had a strong presence among Michigan\u2019s wealthy for decades.<\/p>\n

But the ties extend beyond overlapping at religious charities in the orbits of Michigan philanthropists. Pulte had a significant personal relationship with Coe, who hobnobbed with presidents of both parties and leaders of nations around the world.<\/p>\n

A 2019 tribute after the elder Pulte\u2019s death, in a of one of his charities, said:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBill had a global vision rooted in his deep faith in Jesus Christ. He connected his vision and faith, joining with other philanthropists and leaders (including former President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. for prayer breakfasts where they prayed together for world peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In an interview just last month, Rabbi Jack Bemporad recalled \u201cwe used to go to Doug\u2019s place,\u201d presumably referring to Coe\u2019s Arlington, Va., home.<\/p>\n

Bemporad was a collaborator with the elder Pulte on a project of profound personal importance: Crafting a prayer for peace so universal it would foster world peace. (It has yet to achieve progress toward this aim.)<\/p>\n

Coe assembled a group of eight to craft it, so the finished prayer would be inclusive enough to be universally unifying. (The group is pictured in the screengrab at the top of this article.)<\/p>\n

The tallest figure, to Pulte\u2019s immediate right, is A. Larry Ross, a Fellowship spokesperson and past board member. Ross was one of the key figures I identified a few years ago as part of The Fellowship\u2019s radicalization of Mike Lindell.<\/p>\n

The smiling group of eight at some point found themselves at odds with each other over their unifying prayer.<\/p>\n

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The ties extend beyond overlapping at religious charities in the orbits of Michigan philanthropists. Pulte had a significant personal relationship with Coe, who hobnobbed with presidents of both parties and leaders of nations around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to Bemporad in his interview last month, the elder Pulte took his idea for a prayer to Clark Durant, an occasional Republican candidate and former vice president at Hillsdale College, an oasis for theocratic right-wing academia. Durant brought in Coe. Coe brought in the others.<\/p>\n

Some on the team of eight felt the prayer should be Christian. Pulte and Bemporad, the rabbi, did not, Bemporad says. \u201c[T]hat was something that divided us.\u201d<\/p>\n

They worked on it for more than a year, with weekly prayer group meetings. (You can read the final prayer at Bemporad\u2019s website.)<\/p>\n

Whatever divide arose between Coe and Pulte apparently wasn\u2019t deep or permanent.<\/p>\n

Fellowship spreadsheets I obtained several years ago list Pulte as attending the 2015 and 2016 prayer breakfasts, one year with his wife.<\/p>\n

The 2016 spreadsheet identifies who invited each guest, and the Pultes were invited by Coe.<\/p>\n

Back home, Pulte\u2019s circle included another Coe disciple, a Michigan business leader named Mike Timmis, who facilitated Fellowship mission work known as Cornerstone Development in Uganda. The Fellowship liaison backed by Timmis helped lead a parliamentary prayer group that ultimately enacted the death penalty for LGBTQ+ people there.<\/p>\n

Timmis and Pulte helped get Cornerstone Schools off the ground in Michigan in the early 1990s. Durant, who knew Coe, approached both of them for help.<\/p>\n

The 1991 articles of incorporation list Durant, Timmis, and Timmis\u2019s wife as incorporators. Timmis and Durant raised $1.2 million. Pulte kicked in the final $22 million, according to a story told by Mark Pulte.<\/p>\n

The elder Pulte, Mark\u2019s father and grandfather of the incoming acting intelligence director, poured \u201ctens of millions\u201d into the schools over the years, reportedly. (He also sold a home to Timmis\u2019s son \u2014 another disciple of Coe\u2019s \u2014 after building a development in Ave Maria, Fla., when Timmis\u2019s son chaired the board of Ave Maria University.)<\/p>\n

By ten years in, The Fellowship itself had begun donating to the schools, tax records show. The Fellowship\u2019s 2002 tax filing shows $2,000 going to Cornerstone Schools.<\/p>\n

In 2003, someone at The Fellowship appears to have confused Timmis\u2019s Cornerstone Schools in Detroit with Timmis\u2019s Cornerstone Development in Uganda. Another $2,000 is listed for Cornerstone Schools that year \u201cto assist the inner city schools in Uganda,\u201d which is what Cornerstone Schools does in Detroit and Cornerstone Development does not do in Uganda\u2019s inner-city schools.<\/p>\n

By 2005, the regular $2,000 Fellowship donation to Cornerstone Schools in Detroit was back. And by 2012, two generations of Pultes were involved. Bill Pulte\u2019s father, Mark, appears on the board that year.<\/p>\n

Outside of Michigan, there\u2019s little sign of Pulte family financial involvement in Fellowship endeavors. Pulte\u2019s grandmother, who\u2019s still living, has donated reliably to Republican political campaigns, but her only notable Fellowship recipient is Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), who got $1,000 in 2010, years before The Fellowship flew him to Uganda to bolster allies there under international pressure for their LGBTQ+ death penalty.<\/p>\n

Pulte the grandson hasn\u2019t donated to any prominent Fellowship candidates. If anything, the younger Pulte\u2019s donations veer more toward the bombastic right. There\u2019s a distinct gap between grandfather and grandson donations.<\/p>\n

The older, ecumenical Fortune 500 billionaire donated more than $30,000 in 2012 to committees supporting Mitt Romney. They were his last. The next donation by a William Pulte came in 2019, when only the grandson of that name was left. He gave $35,000 to the Trump Victory committee.<\/p>\n

There is one intriguing thread that leads to a largely invisible Fellowship leader said to be influential with Michigan Republicans and, allegedly, unnamed Democrats.<\/p>\n

In his 2022 book, Timmis wrote about a Fellowship associate named Charles McLeod. \u201cHe is responsible for bringing reconciliation to the Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan legislature and in the US Congress,\u201d Timmis wrote.<\/p>\n

In practice this suggests that McLeod doesn\u2019t have what most workers would recognize as a real job. Supported by unnamed donors, he offers encouragement and religious-based morale boosts to politicians or their mutual benefactors.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve written before, McLeod is connected to Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI). Moolenaar said in 2024 that McLeod, Coe, and Timmis taught him \u201cthis idea of devoting my life as a follower of Jesus, his teachings, to being available for his purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That puts McLeod at the heart of The Fellowship\u2019s Michigan nexus.<\/p>\n

The Pulte connection to McLeod is a charity called Angels\u2019 Place. Pulte and his wife began supporting it in the early 1990s. Multiple Pultes have on the board and the family foundation continues to support it.<\/p>\n

The Fellowship, too, has donated to Angels\u2019 Place. More to the point, the address The Fellowship listed for Angels\u2019 Place in a 2007 tax filing was McLeod\u2019s home address. That address has also shown up in Michigan obituaries advising mourners how to donate to The Fellowship on behalf of the deceased. (McLeod\u2019s wife, too, has been a paid associate of The Fellowship, according to federal campaign disclosure forms.)<\/p>\n

Whoever\u2019s supporting McLeod\u2019s activities \u2014 whatever they might be other than supposedly bringing reconciliation to Republicans and Democrats \u2014 they appear to have money to spare.<\/p>\n

In 2003, McLeod\u2019s patrons funneled more than $100,000 through The Fellowship to compensate him. In 2024, the most recent year for which tax forms are available, McLeod was paid $180,507, making him The Fellowship\u2019s highest-paid associate.<\/p>\n

Bill Pulte, the 38-year-old now prepping to run America\u2019s entire intelligence community, doesn\u2019t have any direct connections I could find to Pulte, Timmis, or other Fellowship leaders or organizations. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

But, especially in Pulte\u2019s new position, The Fellowship could be just a phone call away, given its intense focus on relationships with global leaders, and given Pulte\u2019s ostensible closeness to his grandfather. The Fellowship already has a history of working with and inside the State Department.<\/p>\n

That closeness between grandson and grandfather became public as part of an extraordinary battle over the leadership of the Pulte patriarch\u2019s company, after he had stepped aside.<\/p>\n

The Pultes were pissed when new leadership began moving the company out of Michigan, to Georgia, in 2013. That\u2019s what multiple business outlets reported in 2016, when the elder Pulte, grandson tagging along, tried to push out the company\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

What the business press didn\u2019t report was the timing of another issue much tighter than the three-year lag after the move.<\/p>\n

In mid-March of 2016, Pulte Homes (now PulteGroup) President and CEO Richard Dugas was taking a public stand on religious freedom. Against it, it might appear to some on the right.<\/p>\n

Dugas spoke out against a state bill to allow discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs, according to an article in Atlanta\u2019s Saporta Report on March 17, 2016.<\/p>\n

Four days later, Pulte summoned Dugas to a meeting. To Dugas\u2019s surprise, Pulte had brought his grandson. The press release from the board about their meeting didn\u2019t say anything about religious freedom. It was all about the move to Georgia and various other simmering issues. It didn\u2019t explain the timing.<\/p>\n

Then, on April 4, 2016, Pulte wrote to the board, seeking to push Dugas out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible the religion bill had nothing to do with it. The senior Pulte, after all, had for decades worked ecumenically with a wide variety of people.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, The Fellowship, too, celebrates diversity \u2014 sometimes via lip service \u2014 while simultaneously advancing the conceit of a legal or moral right to discriminate based on religion.<\/p>\n

Whatever the cause, the turf war churned up inside information about Pulte and his grandson.<\/p>\n

The younger Pulte alleged in one that, out of his grandfather\u2019s 39 heirs across two generations, he was the only one \u201crecruited\u201d to work in the company and \u201cthe only descendant to receive an inheritance from his grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit also claimed that the elder Pulte was for years \u201ca valued member\u201d of his grandson\u2019s venture-capital firm. And that the two partnered to combat urban blight in Detroit and elsewhere, \u201ca project he [Pulte] started with his Grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n

His grandfather, Pulte said in 2021, was also \u201cvery involved\u201d in his countertop company.<\/p>\n

The following year, Pulte even produced a slim volume annotating some of his grandfather\u2019s sayings and quotations. Some of Pulte\u2019s annotations might give pause to those already worried about him overseeing America\u2019s intelligence community.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat he [Pulte\u2019s grandfather] showed us was that it\u2019s almost impossible to get something a [sic] 100%, but if you have 80%, you can get a lot done in life. You really want to focus on getting 80% done, considering it done, and 8 times out of 10, you are going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Home that Bill Pulte Built
\nWilliam J. Pulte & William J. Pulte<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Three years later, Pulte seems to have rejected fully some of his grandfather\u2019s principles.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumility is a sign of self-confidence,\u201d he wrote in 2022, three years before joining the Trump administration. \u201cHumble leaders can accomplish more than egotistical leaders.\u201d Pulte has not publicly advanced this principle recently.<\/p>\n

At other points in the book one can spot glimpses of Pulte\u2019s coming transition from a Pulte grandson to a Trump mercenary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat actions can we take today that are genuine, good, whole, and abiding by God that can result in good outcomes instead of hate-filled vindictiveness?\u201d wrote Pulte, yet to become famous attacking Trump\u2019s enemies, with bad outcomes.<\/p>\n

This was in response to his grandfather\u2019s quotation: \u201cYou can never succeed when you have hate on your mind.\u201d The grandson added a caveat that effectively rejected the late patriarch\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n

The exception that Pulte claimed may have come in handy later, while serving Trump. \u201cI think there\u2019s something to be said, and I know he would agree, which is if somebody hit you, you got to hit him back.\u201d<\/p>\n

One accusation revealed in Pulte\u2019s suit may resonate today, as even Republicans recoil at Pulte\u2019s utter lack of experience relevant to overseeing America\u2019s sprawling intelligence community.<\/p>\n

A former PulteGroup board member told the Detroit Free Press in 2021 that many board members \u201cdidn\u2019t think his experience was extensive enough\u201d when his grandfather installed Pulte on the board. After his grandfather died, Pulte was kicked off the board.<\/p>\n

At the time, Pulte told the newspaper he wasn\u2019t interested in politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell people, don\u2019t bait me into politics,\u201d he said. \u201cI stay apolitical for everything I\u2019m doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cover of his book touts his grandfather\u2019s credo of God first and family second. But today Pulte is known for putting Trump first, ginning up prosecutions against officials who sought to hold Trump accountable. None have yet borne fruit.<\/p>\n

And while Pulte\u2019s star rises \u2014 for however long it lasts \u2014 Trump\u2019s presidency has hit his family and the charitable endeavors his grandfather built.<\/p>\n

In March of last year, two months into Trump\u2019s second term, Mark Pulte discussed how the family\u2019s Pulte Institute for Global Development at Notre Dame goes to Washington to \u201ceducate our government how they can make the world a better place, where their foreign aid money should be going, where it shouldn\u2019t be going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The institute works with governments and private entities to fight poverty and improve health and education. A month after the interview, Trump funding cuts forced the institute to lay off two thirds of its staff.<\/p>\n

Substacker Greg Conners spotted an eyebrow-raising early intersection between Trump world and the Pulte family.<\/p>\n

The notorious bidding war for a Palm Beach estate between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein involved a third party. It was Mark Pulte, who veered off from the Pulte home-building business to focus on luxury properties. As Connor notes, Pulte, father of Trump\u2019s appointee, outbid Epstein and was the one who actually bid up the price Trump ended up paying.<\/p>\n

This post originally ran on Jonathan Larsen\u2019s Substack. Read the original post here.<\/em><\/p>\n

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