Funding
The Hudson Institute is supported by donations from companies and individuals. Corporate contributors listed in a publication from 2001 included Eli Lilly and Company, Monsanto Company, DuPont, Dow-Elanco, Sandoz, Ciba-Geigy, ConAgra, Cargill, and Procter & Gamble.
Fundraising efforts use testimonials from what the Institute calls its "family of generous supporters and friends", among them, Henry Kissinger, who provides a testimonial: "Hudson Institute is today one of America's foremost policy research centers, in the forefront of study and debate on important domestic and international policy issues, known and respected around the globe, a leader in innovative thinking and creative solutions to the challenges of the present and the future."
While many conservative think tanks eschew government funding, Hudson does take government contracts. The Capital Research Center (CRC) database lists Hudson as having received six grants between 1996 and 2002 totaling $731,914 (unadjusted for inflation). Five of the six grants were from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. (Neither the CRC database or Hudson's annual report for those years provide details on what the grants were specifically for.)
In 2002, Hudson received a grant of $173,484 from the Department of Commerce.
The Hudson Institute's IRS Form 990 for the financial year ending on September 30, 2003 showed total revenue of $9.34 million, including over $146,000 in government grants. Although several of the organizations listed below no longer exist, some of the funding sources listed in the institute's 2002 annual report include:
| * Ag Processing Inc | * American Crop Protection Association | * American Cyanamid |
| * Archer Daniels Midland | * Cargill | * Ciba-Geigy |
| * ConAgra Foods | * Conrad Black | * CropLife International |
| * DowElanco | * DuPont | * Eli Lilly and Company |
| * Exxon Mobil | * Fannie Mae | * General Electric Fund |
| * Heinz | * IBM | * Lilly Endowment |
| * McDonald's | * Merck | * Microsoft |
| * Monsanto | * National Agricultural Chemical Association | * Nichols-Dezenhall Communications Management Group |
| * Novartis | * PayPal | * PhRMA |
| * PriceWaterhouseCoopers | * Procter & Gamble | * Sunkist Growers |
| * Syngenta Crop Protection | * United Agri Products | * Westfield Corporation |
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