Sean Feucht Ministries Faces Amended Lawsuit Over $250K Tour Donation

Plaintiff alleges Feucht knew TPUSA had already agreed to fund the tour.

An amended federal lawsuit against Sean Feucht Ministries (SFM) alleges that the ministry solicited a $250,000 donation from a California donor to fund Feucht’s 2023 state-capitol tour even though, according to the amended complaint, Feucht already knew that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) had agreed to pay the tour’s expenses.

Sean Feucht / Video screenshot

The amended complaint, filed Sept. 30 after the original lawsuit was dismissed with leave to amend in September, presents a different theory of the alleged fraud. The original lawsuit alleged that the $250,000 solicited for the tour was later diverted for other purposes. The amended complaint instead alleges that Feucht misrepresented the ministry’s need for the donation by failing to disclose that TPUSA had already agreed to cover the tour’s expenses.

Plaintiff Steve Bray claims Feucht knew about the TPUSA arrangement before soliciting the funds, yet didn’t disclose it to Bray at their meeting on March 6, 2023. Bray alleges Feucht withheld the information because he knew Bray would not have contributed had he known about the arrangement.

“Feucht knew that TPUSA had agreed to fund the tour entirely and that SFM did not need the plaintiff’s or any other person’s contribution to fund the tour expenses — the very expenses that Feucht represented to plaintiff during the March 6, 2023 in-person meeting required financial support,” the lawsuit states.

Bray also claims he asked Feucht about $5 million that the ministry appeared to have available, but Feucht allegedly said those funds were “already committed or allocated to other projects.”

Bray argues Feucht made misrepresentations and omissions about the ministry’s existing financial resources, claiming those resources were already “committed” to other projects and that each stop on the state-capitol tour required $50,000 in funding. Rather than revealing the TPUSA arrangement, Bray argues, Feucht fraudulently induced him to make the $250,000 donation to cover five of the events.

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The original complaint, which was dismissed, did not explain the details of the March 6 meeting or the specific purpose of the $250,000 donation.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled that Bray had failed to plead sufficient facts in his original complaint to allow Feucht to respond to the claims. On the negligent misrepresentation claim, for example, the judge agreed with Feucht that Bray had failed to provide a factual basis to “support the assertion that funds provided by [Bray] to the [Feucht Ministries] are the same funds diverted by Defendants toward alleged ‘fraudulent conduct.'”

According to the plaintiff, Feucht never revealed the TPUSA funding arrangement and never offered to return the $250,000 because the tour was already funded.

In July 2025, Bray claims he spoke to several former TPUSA and SFM insiders, including Richie Booth, Feucht’s former bookkeeper, and learned about the TPUSA arrangement. Bray also claims Booth revealed that “the financial books and records of Feucht-related ministries did not correspond with representations made in soliciting donations.”

Bray then began investigating the tour’s financial arrangements and discovered the TPUSA deal through “persons with firsthand knowledge” and reviewed records corroborating it.

The amended complaint claims that before Bray’s $250,000 contribution was solicited, TPUSA had already agreed to fund “all the costs of the tour, including staff compensation, permits, travel, hotels, band expenses, fuel, bus-driver compensation, parking, food, and other tour-related expenses,” and that former TPUSA personnel can testify to that arrangement.

It also identifies several former SFM and TPUSA personnel as having firsthand knowledge of the arrangement and cites SFM invoices, reimbursement records and communications between the ministries as evidence supporting Bray’s claims.

The original complaint’s allegation that Feucht diverted the donation to “non-charitable purposes” is absent from the amended filing; Bray now claims he is not required to trace the specific dollars. Instead, the amended complaint alleges that Bray’s injury occurred when he was fraudulently induced to make the donation.

The lawsuit maintains the same four causes of action: fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, civil theft by false pretenses and unfair business practices. It continues to seek compensatory and punitive damages, along with treble damages, attorneys’ fees and costs.

After the original lawsuit was dismissed, Feucht wrote on X: “[T]hey attacked us, slandered us, and spread allegations they couldn’t support in court.”

In the MinistryWatch database, Sean Feucht Ministries has a Donor Confidence Score of 19, meaning donors should withhold giving. It has the lowest Transparency Grade of F because it doesn’t belong to the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, doesn’t file a public Form 990 with the IRS, and doesn’t post an audited financial statement on its website.

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