Ken Eldred is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropic funder whose current repo footprint now combines direct self-description material with direct ProPublica officer records tying him to United in Purpose and Usatransform, plus reporting and filing evidence that place him at the center of the Ziklag lineage.
In this repository, Eldred matters because he is the clearest recurring person-level link between the United in Purpose voter-data cluster and the Ziklag / USATransForm donor-network cluster. The direct ProPublica captures show Eldred as Chairman on the rendered organization surfaces for both United In Purpose and Usatransform, while older direct self-description material presents him as a tech executive and Christian-business author. The newest filing pass keeps the direct label narrow: Eldred is supported as chairman, not as CEO, while retained reporting says Ziklag was his brainchild and emerged from a previous organization called United In Purpose. The stronger claims about exact founding sequences, movement ideology, or operational control still depend in part on reporting and should remain explicitly bounded.
- Role or function: entrepreneur, funder, chairman in current filing-surface records
- Current direct organization roles in the repo:
United In Purpose: ChairmanUsatransform: Chairman
- Relationship boundary: the direct filing evidence supports chair / governance labels; founder and control labels still need reporting qualification or stronger records
- Direct self-description layer: former CEO of
Inmac, business founder, adviser to Christian or kingdom-business ventures
- Important context: the repo now has better direct officer evidence than it did on
2026-04-14, but it still does not settle every founder or control claim across adjacent groups
- United in Purpose: the current rendered ProPublica page lists Eldred as
Chairman, and existing reporting also places him as a major funder; some retained reporting further describes him as UIP's founder, while other retained reporting gives Dallas and Rutherford that founder role.
- Ziklag: the current rendered ProPublica page for
Usatransform lists Eldred as Chairman, while retained reporting describes Ziklag as Eldred's brainchild.
- Christian nationalism: the concept link is reporting-grounded through the United in Purpose and Ziklag clusters rather than direct self-description.
- Election integrity activism: Eldred's relevance to this concept comes through the United in Purpose and Ziklag reporting clusters, not through a direct movement manifesto in the current repo.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- a locally retained article from www.godisatwork.org, captured 2026-04-06T00:36:51.140256-06:00, titled God Is at Work - Ken Eldred: direct self-description page with Eldred's business and philanthropic profile.
- a locally retained video from www.youtube.com, captured 2026-04-06T00:36:51.140256-06:00, titled Ken Eldred | Spiritual Capital - YouTube: direct talk capture reinforcing the Christian-business framing layer.
- a locally retained dataset from projects.propublica.org, captured 2026-04-15T14:31:33-06:00, titled United In Purpose - Nonprofit Explorer API - ProPublica: direct organization record and rendered officer-table note showing Eldred as chairman of United In Purpose.
- a locally retained dataset from projects.propublica.org, captured 2026-04-15T14:31:33-06:00, titled Usatransform - Nonprofit Explorer API - ProPublica: direct organization record and rendered officer-table note showing Eldred as chairman of Usatransform.
- a locally retained dataset from projects.propublica.org, captured 2026-04-17T18:00:00-06:00, titled NACL / United in Purpose / USATransform / Wallnau ProPublica filing pass: adds a filing-focused extraction that distinguishes Eldred's direct chair role from weaker founder, CEO, or control labels.
- a locally retained article from Bucks County Beacon, published 2022-11-06, titled United in Purpose: The shady Christian nonprofit tied to a massive voter data leak and the 'Big Lie': reporting that places Eldred in the United in Purpose and later Ziklag context.
- a locally retained article from ProPublica, published 2024-07-13, titled Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country: reporting that describes Ziklag as Eldred's brainchild and links it to a prior United in Purpose context.
- The current repo now supports a durable Eldred page, but it still does not settle the exact founder-versus-chair distinction across United in Purpose, Ziklag, and Usatransform.
- The retained reporting now gives a clearer Ziklag-from-UIP lineage, but it still contains competing founder narratives for United In Purpose itself.
- The repo still lacks a direct filing-PDF review for the specific years that generated the rendered officer tables.
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains research captures and provenance records locally. Public originals, when available, appear in the Original links section below; internal archive paths and restricted materials are not public links. See Sources, access, and local retention.