Alexis de Tocqueville Institution - Funding Sources

Funding Sources

Like most think tanks, AdTI does not publicize its backers and donors. Like all non-profit organizations, some of this information is available in its annual filings with the IRS.

As reported by MediaTransparency, the AdTI's backers from 1988 to 2002 include:

• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• John M. Olin Foundation
• Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
• Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
• The Carthage Foundation
• Koch Family Foundations

Projects funded include:

• numerous grants from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation "to support education-reform research and activities";
• a number of grants to support the Teacher Choice Project;
• $50,000 in 2000 to "support research on teacher unions and education reform" from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation;
• in 1998, $168,750 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation "to support research and writing on new tactics of U.S. progressive movement in the Post-Cold War era";
• A total of $30,000 in 1995 and 1996 from the John M. Olin Foundation for "the Action Plan for Defense Privatization, conducted by the Committee for the Common Defense";
• In 1998 $5,000 from the John M. Olin Foundation to "support promotion for The Democratic Century, a book by Gregory Fossedal."

The Capital Research Center reports funding by the Fannie Mae Foundation, the AT&T Foundation, and the Amoco Foundation.