THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
Total received: $8.3 million
Received in 2000: $983,500
INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE
IRPL (First Things)
Total received: $7 million
Received in 2000: $650,000
FREEDOM HOUSE
Total received: $8.4 million
Received in 2000: $786,000
INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS
Total received: $11.5 million
Received in 2000: $747,000
CITIZENS FOR A SOUND ECONOMY
Total received: $16 million
Received in 2000: $1.7 million
ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER
Total received: $8.7 million
Received in 2000: $1 million
HUDSON INSTITUTE
Total received: $11.4 million
Received in 2000: $1.2 million
NATIONAL CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE
Total received: $6.4 million
Received in 2000: $480,000
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Total received: $7.2 million
Received in 2000: $450,000
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR CULTURE
Total received: $11 million
Received in 2000: $825,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Total received: $42 million
Received in 2000: $3.3 million
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Total received: $30.7 million
Received in 2000: $2.4 million
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
Total received: $27.9 million
Received in 2000: $2.7 million
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Total received: $28 million
Received in 2000: $3.7 million
FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION
Total received: $22.4 million
Received in 2000: $1.5 million
YALE UNIVERSITY
Total received: $18.6 million
Received in 2000: $2 million
HOOVER INSTITUTION
Total received: $15 million
Received in 2000: $1.2 million
CATO INSTITUTE
Total received: $15.6 million
Received in 2000: $1.4 million
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Total received: $13.3 million
Received in 2000: $1.4 million
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE
Total received: $10.2 million
Received in 2000: $1.2 million
AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Total received: $6 million
Received in 1998: $117,500
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
Total received: $6.3 million
Received in 2000: $818,000
INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE
Total received: $12.6 million
Received in 2000: $945,000
The Conservative
Movement's Tangled Web
The key to the effectiveness and tax-exemption of the conservative movement is its web of institutions. These range from the obviously partisan such as the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute, to the seemingly benign such as Harvard University, or the Media Research Center.
The framework presented by the NCRP's Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations shows the organizational structure of the movement:
What makes the conservative funding movement different is that the recipient organizations pursue .overtly political agenda(s). nearly congruent with the positions of the Republican Party:
Conservatives then achieve synergy through the coordination of overall funding across the philanthropies and through the sheer range of recipient organizations. The Philanthropy Roundtable, for example, helps funders such as the Bradley and Olin foundations coordinate their giving. Funded organizations such as the State Policy Network coordinate the activities of the movement.s state and local think tanks. One organization, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which supplies sample legislation for the movement.s legislators - often at the behest of corporations, belies the whole underlying lie of the movement's nonpartisan contention.
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