Stay on this story...I smell a RAT!

I assume this so-called foundation must register with the IRS and follow the attendant rules. Aren't there ratios that must be maintained between money raised, expenses, dontations, etc.?

Ain't my Congressman a peach, there is virtually no chance of defeating this scum.

The stench emanating from the Congress of the United States grows worse with every passing day. The culture of corruption is overwhelming. The contribution of this corruption to our national decline is very apparent.

Glad to hear you'll continue digging. I would love to hear his explanation.

Excerpt from a June USA Today story http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/presscenter/articles/2009/06/07/lobbyists-unlimited-honoring-lawmakers/ on these types of foundations:

Amgen also donated to the Frontier Foundation in honor of Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., who is on the House panel that regulates the drug industry.
The foundation, which provides college scholarships and once was headed by Buyer's daughter, received $385,000 in donations from pharmaceutical companies from 2005 through 2007, according to its IRS filings.
Buyer, who has worked on health policy in Congress for years, helped kill a provision in 2007 opposed by drug companies and broadcasters that would have imposed a three-year ban on advertising new drugs, congressional records show. Consumer advocates, including the Consumers Union, pushed the measure, arguing that aggressive drug pitches unduly sway patients to seek treatment from drugs before their safety records have been established.
During debate by a Commerce subcommittee, Buyer co-sponsored an amendment that stripped the advertising ban from a larger bill overhauling the Food and Drug Administration.
In an interview, Buyer said "there is no connection" between his legislative actions and donations to the foundation. "I'm not an officer. I'm not a board director," he said of his role in the non-profit. "Do I help the foundation? Yes, I do. Do I help other charity groups? Yes, I do."
He referred other questions to foundation officials.
The charity's IRS filing covering the year 2007, the most recent available, listed Buyer's daughter, Colleen, as its unpaid president. Stephanie Mattix, listed as the group's paid secretary/treasurer, is executive director of Buyer's political action committee, Storm Chasers, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Mattix and Buyer told USA TODAY that Colleen Buyer had left the group and referred questions to its president, Brenda Olthoff. Olthoff did not respond to e-mails and calls. Colleen Buyer did not return telephone calls.
The National Association of Broadcasters contributed $25,000 in honor of Buyer to the foundation last year. Amgen donated $15,000.
"I don't think there is a link between a specific vote on drug legislation and contributing to kids going to college in Indiana," says Dennis Wharton, the broadcasters' executive vice president. "We look at where we think it's a worthy cause."
Davenport, Amgen's spokeswoman, says the gift matched the company's "philanthropic mission to improve education."

I'm interested in where the "operating expenses" go. How much is rent and who/what else is housed at the same addresses.

It's even worse. According to the 2009 filing with the Indiana Secretary of State Buyer's daughter, Colleen Buyer, and his son, Ryan Buyer, are listed as directors of the Frontier Foundation. Ryan Buyer's address is listed as the same as Steve Buyer's.

The donors to the Frontier Foundation are a subset of those who also give to his Storm Chasers PAC. Clearly the travel expenses and the salary of Mattix are political expenses masked as charitable expenses.