October 28, 2004 | Read Time: 1 minute
The campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said in a statement that the candidate’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, was responsible for more than $4.6-million in charitable contributions that were distributed last year, primarily through grants made by the Heinz Family Foundation. Mrs. Heinz Kerry established the family foundation with her late husband, Sen. H. John Heinz III. (The family foundation is principally supported by a charitable lead trust, the Teresa & H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust, that was established as a result of estate-planning decisions the couple made before Senator Heinz’s death in 1991.)
The two pages of Mrs. Heinz Kerry’s tax returns that were released by the Kerry campaign show that she reported income of $5-million in 2003 and took itemized deductions of $267,541. The Kerry campaign did not say what portion of the deductions were taken for charitable contributions.
