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==Funding==
===2005: 3 individuals gave 99% of funding===
"Americans for Limited Government, the tax-exempt organization that bankrolled a series of controversial [takings] ballot initiatives this year, raised 99 percent of its $5.4 million in total contributions in 2005 from just three donors..."<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=Center for Public Integrity
|title=Takings Initiatives - Articles: Three Big Donors Bankrolled Americans for Limited Government in 2005
|url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/takings/articles/entry/69/
|accessdate=2011-07-26
|author=Bill Hogan
|date=2006-12-21
|quote=Americans for Limited Government, the tax-exempt organization that bankrolled a series of controversial ballot initiatives this year, raised 99 percent of its $5.4 million in total contributions in 2005 from just three donors, the Center for Public Integrity has learned.
The number of ALG’s major donors in 2005, but not their identities, was disclosed in financial statements obtained by the Center.
...
The reliance of Americans for Limited Government on such a small number of big donors is at sharp variance with how the organization bills itself to journalists and to the public.
}}</ref>
===2004: "handful of large donors"===
A "review of public records from 2004, however, shows that the operations of Americans for Limited Government and its affiliated foundation were financed almost entirely that year by a handful of large donors, as were the operations of other tax-exempt organizations led by or otherwise connected to ALG’s chairman, New York real estate investor Howard Rich.
