Kim Dennis is president and CEO of the Searle Freedom Trust, a grantmaking foundation established by the late Daniel C. Searle to support public policy reform. She first began working in the grantmaking arena in 1980 as a staffer for the John M. Olin Foundation, and later became the first executive director of Philanthropy Roundtable.
She co-founded and serves as chairman of the board of DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund dedicated to advancing liberty. She also serves on the boards of the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation, the Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Property and Environment Research Center.