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Churchbourne Named NRA Foundation Executive Director

August 1, 2025 by 9 Comments

Peter Churchbourne has been named as the Executive Director of the NRA Foundation. Prior to this, he served as the Managing Director of the NRA’s Hunting, Conservation, and Ranges Division as well as heading the Hunters’ Leadership Forum. He had previously served with Ducks Unlimited for a number of years.

From the press release announcing his appointment by the NRA Foundation:

“We’re excited to welcome Peter Churchbourne to the team,” said Tom King, NRA Foundation President. “His proven track record of relationship building, fiscal responsibility, fundraising and an innovative mindset will be instrumental as we continue to grow the Foundation while providing funding, education and leadership within the Second Amendment community.”

In his new role, Churchbourne will oversee all the NRA Foundation operations, helping to increase awareness, expand outreach, and grow opportunities within the Second Amendment community. This appointment reflects the NRA Foundation’s commitment to sound governance, transparency, accountability, and ethical leadership. We remain dedicated to strengthening our trust with our stakeholders and upholding the principles that will determine our long-term success.

I should point out that the NRA and the NRA Foundation’s relationship has changed in the last two years since the Foundation agreed to a consent decree with the Attorney General of DC. I would characterize the relationship between the two organizations as more of an arm’s length relationship than the previous hand in glove relationship. For example, the NRA Board of Directors no longer elects and appoints the trustees of the Foundation. As I understand it, they are more of a self-perpetuating board now. The two organizations still work together but not as closely as previously.

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  1. Request for education: If NRA Foundation selects its own board, who are they held accountable to? Seems to me that that consent decree was aimed at splintering the Association rather than promoting transparency and accountability…

    1. Therein lies the problem for me. You now have an organization using the NRA name and fundraising using it but is no longer under any control from it. The money is supposed to help support the educational, training, and other activities of the NRA that are non-political. Because Wayne used the foundation almost like a slush fund to cover expenses, etc, you now have the consent decree and the Old Guard is using that to build an alternative power structure.

      1. Pretty sure I have a comment on this that wasn’t approved, and it specifically notes how this new ED has a history of using the official comms platforms he ultimately controls to promote the problem cycles.

        I’m guessing the only ultimate control you guys would have would be to cut off the Foundation & Friends from using the NRA membership lists for fundraising & promotion. Revoke all past permissions. End the policy of sending Friends committees a roll of address labels for members in their areas. Since it’s so extreme, they know you’re unlikely to do it. But that would really be it as far as I know.

        1. Given the NRA still gets a significant amount of money from the Foundation including rent and program expenses, I doubt this would happen. The issue is we have no control or influence with them and the Old Guard has most of the trustees.

          1. If you can find my original comment about the choices from his department when he was at NRA to drive organizational funded staff time & PR to promote the “Old Guard,” then you may want to approve it.

          2. So the question then becomes, how can we point out to Judge Cohen that the Federal consent decree is being used as a safe harbor for the Old Guard, or get Bondi’s DOJ to take a second look at the case and revise or rescind the CD?

          3. The consent decree was not federal. It was from the District of Columbia where the NRA Foundation is incorporated.

            Any changes would be at the behest of DC AG Brian Schwalb. The original suit was brought by then AG Karl Racine.

          4. With Trump recently moving to “federalize” DC (it should have NEVER had “home rule” as it was NEVER meant to be a city only a federal office district), perhaps that opens up a path to pressure Schwalb.

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