Corporate-Funding

Heritage Foundation Budget Reaches $14.3 Million - Scale of Corporate Policy Investment

1987-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

By 1987, the Heritage Foundation’s annual budget had reached $14.3 million, representing a doubling from $7.1 million in 1981 and demonstrating the massive scale of corporate investment in conservative policy infrastructure. The foundation would reach $14.6 million by 1988, establishing …

Heritage Foundation Joseph Coors Richard Mellon Scaife Edwin Feulner Corporate donors think-tank-infrastructure corporate-funding heritage-foundation powell-memo-implementation policy-influence

Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare

1979-06-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

In June 1979, Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority during a meeting at a Holiday Inn in Lynchburg, Virginia, with Weyrich coining the term “moral majority.” The organization represented a strategic alliance between corporate interests and religious conservatives, …

Paul Weyrich Jerry Falwell Richard Viguerie Howard Phillips Ed McAteer +2 more religious-right cultural-warfare corporate-funding grassroots-mobilization new-right +1 more

American Enterprise Institute Budget Surges to $10 Million - Think Tank Infrastructure Expansion

1977-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

By 1977, the American Enterprise Institute’s budget had surged to approximately $10 million, representing more than a 12-fold increase from its 1970 budget of $800,000. This dramatic expansion transformed AEI from a modest research organization into a major policy influence machine, …

American Enterprise Institute William Baroody Sr. Gerald Ford Howard Pew Freedom Trust John M. Olin Foundation +1 more think-tank-infrastructure powell-memo-implementation corporate-funding policy-laundering conservative-movement