Who funds conservative think tanks?

I am currently working on coursework, trying to determine who (individuals and corporations) specifically funds some of the largest conservative and/or hawkish think tanks. I have just discovered that federal law does not require contributors be disclosed. Does anyone have a good website or other applicable source, perhaps from some muckraking publication, that identifies the financial sources of these think tanks? Thanks for your help.

- RAGE

i cant recall his exact name but i think its scaria or something like that - try googling it and see what happens. He was the to finance the clinton withchunt

For example, the Heritage Foundation is heavily funded by the Adolph Coors family. Therefore, if you drink beer, don't drink Coors.

I have seen Coors advertised heavily in Gay mags and events. It's the only beer I can recall that I constantly seen being marketed in the gay community.

I'm a Corona Chico all the way. Got to support mi amigos :)

Look no further.

is the name. Also, check out PFAW's web site. Lots of info on the right-wing orgs and who funds them

i was cLose enough. aLL those conservatives Look aLike to me.

if you've read aL franken's Lying Liars you shouLd remember that meLLon schaife set the tone way back in 1980(?) (don't have the book on hand)

http://www.mediatransparency.org/

Very thorough on all aspects on their movements

McDonald's? Pepsico?

Pittsburgh is where he hangs out. Google him up and you'll find plenty of interesting projects that he funds.

Scaife Foundations, Coors Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Olin Foundation are some of the biggies.

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I was busy gathering info for the post ... sorry to dupe post #4

http://www.mediatransparency.org/fundometer.php

you enter the URL of the organization's website

for example

you if you enter the DLC/New Democrats think tank PPI, you'll see, funding has come from conservatives ... I know ... shocking example ... :spank:


Found 1 recipients:
Progressive Foundation, The


http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=449

Conservative funders

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

According to the Milwaukee Journal, "..the country's top sponsor of conservative research, publications and think tanks."

Scaife Foundations

Includes the Alegheny Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, Scaife Family Foundation, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation.

John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.

Koch Family Foundations

Smith Richardson Foundation

Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation

Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation

David H. Koch Charitable Foundation

Earhart Foundation

JM Foundation

Castle Rock Foundation

http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders.php

...and a bunch of Nazi Swiss bankers and other international neo-cons. Seig Heil!!!

also from the mediatransparency website . . .

The Apparat: George W. Bush's back-door political machine

http://www.mediatransparency.com/stories/apparat.html

This article in the Sierra magazine (Sierra Club publication) may help. It actually caused a "Libertarian" friend to question lies he accepted as truth.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200207/thinktank.asp

of all are the fundamentalists churches. Pat & Jerry's kids.

The Mackinac Foundation, or whatever they are called, gets money from groups and individuals like this, who want the government to pay for them to enroll their children in religious schools.