New York shut down the Donald J. Trump Foundation in 2018 and Trump paid $2 million to eight charities

Donald Trump formed the foundation in 1988. During the 2016 campaign, Washington Post reporting raised questions about its spending^†. In December 2016 Trump said he would dissolve it; the attorney general's office said it could not legally dissolve while under investigation^†. On 14 June 2018 Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued the foundation, Trump and his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr., alleging "a shocking pattern of illegality." On 18 December 2018 the foundation agreed to dissolve under court supervision^†. In a resolution announced on 7 November 2019 the court ordered Trump to pay $2 million in damages, $250,000 each to Army Emergency Relief, the Children's Aid Society, Citymeals-on-Wheels, Give an Hour, Martha's Table, the United Negro College Fund, the United Way of the National Capital Area and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Trump also repaid $11,525 for sports items and champagne bought at a charity gala. With the $1,797,598.30 left in the foundation's account, each charity received $476,140.41. Trump agreed to 19 admissions of personal misuse of foundation funds and to restrictions on future charity work. Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. underwent mandatory training.