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All four have been heavily involved After the death of Richard Scaife in 2014, a significant portion of his assets were given to the foundations, increasing their value substantially. In addition, the Sarah Scaife and Carthage Foundation merged at the end of 2014,<ref name="game changing legacy">Mike Wereschagin, "[http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/8002569-74/scaife-foundation-foundations Scaife bestows 'game-changing' legacy of giving to region, nation]," ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', May 2, 2015.</ref> making the Sarah Scaife Foundation one of the largest foundations focused on supporting right-wing causes. Its assets were expected to grow to some $800 million in 2015.<ref name="bigger stage">Rich Lord, "[funders|financing]http://www.post-gazette.com/local/2014/10/25/Scaife-related-foundations-poised-to-take-bigger-stage/stories/201410250058 Scaife-related foundations poised to take bigger stage] ," ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', October 25, 2014.</ref> In addition, two other foundations were also associated with Richard Scaife and are controlled by members of his family:<ref name="bpabout">''Bridge Project'' profile on: [[conservativehttp://bridgeproject.com/?organization&id=253640 "Allegheny Foundation"]] causes , organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref>* '''Scaife Family Foundation''' — previously controlled by Richard Scaife and now under the direction of reclusive billionaire his children since the early 2000s.<ref name="RW">''Right Web'' profile on: [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Scaife_Foundations "Scaife Foundations"], organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref>* '''Colcom Foundation''' — established and previously managed by Richard Scaife's late sister, Cordelia Scaife May.<ref name="cfhistory">Colcom Foundation, [http://www.colcomfdn.org/history.html "History"], organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref> {{Template:AntiEnvironmentalArchives}} ==The Scaife Foundations== The Scaife family’s foundations, set up by Richard Mellon Scaife’s mother, Sarah, were relatively apolitical until her death in 1965, "when Richard assumed greater control of the family fortune and was able to direct his wealth toward the growth of a conservative infrastructure."<ref name="bpsf">''Bridge Project'' profile on: [http://bridgeproject.com/?organization&id=253673 "Sarah ScaifeFoundation"]], whose wealth organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref> By 1976, over half of the Scaife foundations’ grant money went to conservative organizations and causes. While foundation boards approved the grants, Scaife chaired all three during his lifetime, and the boards showed "deference...to Scaife's personal desires," according to ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="wapo scaife"/> Scaife's giving was motivated in part by tax rules and deduction benefits, ''The Washington Post'' reported in 1999: :The tax law required Scaife to become a philanthropist. The foundations he inherited had to give away 5 percent of their assets every year. Sarah Scaife's trusts, set up under provisions of the tax law that have since been repealed, were required to give away all the income they generated. :Scaife's mother and later Scaife himself got huge tax deductions to establish their trusts and foundations. He can deduct the amount of each gift he makes from his taxable income, which – given the Mellon industrial, oilbillion dollars or so in his personal fortune – is presumably substantial. :Such deductions are classified by the Treasury as "tax expenditures" – the equivalent of government spending. Charity is a "tax-favored activity" in the jargon of tax lawyers – it is subsidized by all taxpayers.<ref name="wapo scaife">Staff, "[http://www.scaifewatchwashingtonpost.com uranium /wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifedough050299.htm Scaife's Foundations]and [[banking]] fortune," ''The Washington Post'', May 2, 1999.</ref>
==Source of Mellon fortune==
The Mellon fortune is built on at least 5 pillars; the family's ownership of [[Gulf Oil]] Corporation, the family's monopoly ownership of [[Alcoa]] and [[Alcan]] going back to 1891, ownership of Koppers and Carborundum corporations, and their participation in the [http://www.scaifewatch.com uranium cartel. ]
==The foundations==
In 2009According to its website, the foundation "concentrates its giving in the Western Pennsylvania area and confines most of its grant awards to programs for historic preservation, civic development and education." <ref>Scaife Foundations, with $28[http://www.scaife.com/alleghen.html "Allegheny Foundation: Application Guidelines"], organizational website, accessed 2013</ref> As a philanthropic organization,045Allegheny is officially dedicated to supporting nonpolitical causes. However,655 in assetsthe foundation has heavily supported some of the most prominent right-wing institutions, it gave out grants worth over including the [[Intercollegiate Studies Institute]] (nearly $4 2.7 millionbetween 1992 and 2004), the [[Heritage Foundation]] (including a $1.7 25 million donation in 2010), the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]] ($1.2 million to since 2000), and the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]](ALEC) (more than $1.7 million since 1985).<refname="bpabout"/>{{cite web|publisherAs of 2014 the foundation was worth nearly $75 million, but was reportedly set to grow to $400 million with Richard Scaife's bequest.<ref name=Media Matters Action Network"bigger stage"/> |title=''For a partial list of grant recipients, see the Sourcewatch article '''[[Allegheny Foundation|url=http://mediamattersaction]]'''.org/transparency/organization/Allegheny_Foundation|accessdate=2011-04-25}}</ref>''
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===Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation===
''The Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation is also known as the Sarah Scaife Foundation.''
====1973, Scaife became chairman, commenced right wing funding====
The Foundation commenced funding "[[New Right]]" causes in 1973 when Richard Mellon Scaife became the foundation's chairman. During the 1960s, Richard inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah. His net personal worth was estimated at $800 million by ''Forbes'' magazine, which would make Richard the 38th richest person in the United States. Richard controls the Scaife, Carthage, and Alleghany foundations.
Some years ago{{date}}The Carthage Foundation merged into the Sarah Scaife Foundation at the end of 2014.<ref>Scaife Foundation, "[http://www.scaife.com/carthage.html The Carthage Foundation]," organization website, accessed July 2016.</ref> According to its website, the Sarah Mellon Carthage Foundation's grants were "primarily directed toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues...[with] no geographical restrictions."<ref>Scaife Foundations, [http://www.scaife.com/carthage.html"The Carthage Foundation was estimated : Application Guidelines"], organizational website, accessed 2013</ref> Carthage directed its funding to smaller conservative groups, such as $2.4 million between 1985 and 2013 to be worth the the Baltimore-based [[Maldon Institute]] and $200 2.2 millionbetween 1995 and 2013 to the [[Allegheny Institute for Public Policy]].<ref name="bpcarth">''Bridge Project'' profile on: [http://bridgeproject. com/?organization&id=253676 "The Carthage Foundation"], organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref> The foundation also gives to larger conservative organizations, such as: the [[Free Congress Research and Education Foundation]] (over $5 million since 1985), [[Judicial Watch]] ($4.6 million since 1997), the [[Heritage Foundation]] ($2.6 million since 1985), and the [[Washington Legal Foundation]] ($1.78 million since 1985).<ref name="bpcarth"/> It also gave over $1.5 million between 1995 and 2013 to the [[Federation for American Immigration Reform]], which has been designated as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.<ref name="bpcarth"/> ''For a partial list of Carthage grant recipients before the merger, see the Sourcewatch article '''[[Carthage Foundation]]'''.'' ===Sarah Scaife Foundation===SMS fndn grants The Sarah Scaife Foundation is the largest of the Scaife Foundations. Its assets had a fair market value of $340 million at the end of 2014 and were expected to increase to nearly $800 million after receiving a large bequest from 1985-2001=the estate of Richard Scaife.<ref name="bigger stage"/> While it disbursed only around $12.9 million in grants in 2014, the foundation was expected to give closer to $40 million in 2015.<ref name="sarah 2014 annual report">Sarah Scaife Foundation, [http://www.scaife.com/sara14.pdf 2014 Annual Report], organization financial report, November 11, 2015.</ref><ref name="bigger stage"/> Between 1985 and 2001According to Jane Mayer, "Scaife's parents created the largest of the family's tax-exempt, charitable foundations, the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation donated $15,860in December 1941,000 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It appears to have been timed to shelter the family's wealth from anticipated tax increases."<ref name="jm">Jane Mayer, [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215462/dark-money-by-jane-mayer/9780385535595/ Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right], Penguin Random House, 2016.</ref> According to its website, its funding is "primarily directed toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues."<ref> Scaife Foundations, [Heritage http://www.scaife.com/sarah.html "Sarah Scaife Foundation: Application Guidelines"]]; $7,333organizational website, accessed 2013</ref> In practice,000 the programs that benefit from the foundation’s grants usually seek to shift public policy to the right.<ref name="bpsf"/> "The foundation’s biggest recipient over the last several decades has been the [[Institute for Policy AnalysisHeritage Foundation]]; , which got over $6,995,500 23 million between 1985 and 2010 and probably much more in years prior to available records."<ref name="bpsf"/> Other major recipients include the [[Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and PeaceAmerican Enterprise Institute]]; (which has received nearly $69 million),693,000 to the [[Media Research Center for Strategic and International Studies]] (CSIS); which has received over $4million),411[[FreedomWorks]],000 to the [[American Enterprise Cato Institute]]; $2,575and the [[Center for Immigration Studies]],000 to the [[Manhattan Institute for Foreign Policy ResearchAnalysis]]; $1,855,000 to the [[George C. Marshall InstituteCenter for Strategic and International Studies]]; $1,808,000 to and the [[Hudson InstituteHoover Institution]]; , all prominent right-wing think tanks and $1,697advocacy groups.<ref name="bpsf"/> ''For a partial list of grant recipients,000 to see the Sourcewatch article '''[[Cato InstituteAllegheny Foundation]]'''.'' ==Scaife Affiliated Foundations==
====Transition to daughter's control shifted focus====
Recently{{date}}, however, the Scaife Family Foundation came under the control of Scaife's daughter Jennie and has changed focus. It continues to give some money to conservative causes, but most of its funding now goes to nonpolitical projects such as medical programs, treatment for [[substance abuse]] (a problem for several family members) and [[Animal rights|animal welfare]]. Jennie Scaife said that her father doesn't support her spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on [[Planned Parenthood]], which supports [[abortion]] rights. However, the <i>Charlotte Observer</i> reported in July 2003 that Scaife donated money to [http://www.projectprevention.org/ Children Requiring A Caring Community], which pays poor women, especially those addicted to drugs, either to be sterilized or to undergo long-term birth control. [http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/6355198.htm?1c]
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The '''Scaife Foundations''' consist of a trio of foundations that had been directed by the:* Sarah late billionaire [[Richard Mellon Scaife Foundation ( $244 million in 2009) ]], whose wealth was inherited from the Mellon industrial, oil, aluminum and banking fortune.<ref name="vf">Michael Joseph Gross, [http://www.eri-nonprofit-salariesvanityfair.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=251113452&Cobrandid=0politics/features/2008/02/scaife200802 "A Vast Right-Wing Hypocrisy"]* Carthage Foundation ( $24 million, ''Vanity Fair'' , February 2008</ref> The Scaife Foundations have provided millions of dollars in 2009) funding to right-wing organizations such as the [http://www.eri[Heritage Foundation]], the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]], the [[Cato Institute]], and anti-nonprofit-salariesimmigrant and Islamophobic organizations such as the [[Center for Immigration Studies]] and the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].com<ref name="RW"/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=256067979&Cobrandid=0>* '''[[Sarah Scaife Foundation]]''' * Allegheny '''[[Carthage Foundation ( $47 million in 2009) [http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=256012303&Cobrandid=0]]''' * Scaife Family '''[[Allegheny Foundation ( $70 million in 2009) [http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=251427015&Cobrandid=0]]'''
===Allegheny Foundation===
The Allegheny Foundation was set up by Scaife after his father died in 1958 with his inheritance and was "focused on local community improvement projects," Jane Mayer details in her book ''Dark Money.''<ref name="jm"/>
===Carthage Foundation===
===Scaife Family Foundation===
According to its website, the Scaife Family Foundation's grants are dedicated to organizations that "support and develop programs that strengthen families, address issues surrounding the health and welfare of women and children, promote animal welfare, and that demonstrate the beneficial interaction between humans and animals."<ref>Scaife Family Foundation, [http://www.scaifefamily.org/ "Scaife Family Foundation"], organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref> As of 2011, the foundation was worth more than $71 million <small>(fair market value)</small>.<ref> Economic Research Institute, Nonprofit Organization Information for:[http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=251427015&Cobrandid=0 "Sarah Scaife Foundation Inc"], organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref> ====Transition to Daughter's Control Shifted Focus====The Scaife Family Foundation broke away from the other three Scaife Foundations in the early 2000s and came under the control of Scaife's daughter, Jennie, who has since changed its focus.<ref name="RW"/> According to the ''Palm Beach Post'', Scaife’s daughter, Jennie, moved the foundation’s offices to Palm Beach, Florida, after differences arose concerning the foundation’s support for Planned Parenthood. Jennie claimed the Scaife Family Foundation became more independent from her family in 2000.<ref name=SF fndn "RW"/> As of 2003, the Scaife Family Foundation began giving a higher percentage of money to drug-treatment programs, disease-fighting groups, and colleges than it grants to think tanks, although it still funds measures to restrict immigration and abolish affirmative action.<ref name="RW"/> ====Grants from 1985-to 2001====
For the years 1985-2001, the Scaife Family Foundation donated $702,640 to the [[Heritage Foundation]]; $590,000 to the [[American Enterprise Institute]]; $275,000 to the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University]]; $200,000 to the CSIS; and $175,000 to the [[New Citizenship Project]], Inc., alone.
==RM Scaife prefers privacy=Colcom Foundation===''(this section should be moved to RMS's page)''Although Scaife has dedicated vast sums of money to influencing the way the public thinks, he prefers to operate behind the scenes, granting few interviews. When former ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Karen Rothmyer attempted to interview him in 1981, he responded by calling her a "fucking Communist cunt" and telling her to "get out of here."
The Colcom Foundation was directed by Richard Scaife's sister, Cordelia May, until her death in 2005.<ref name== Financial summary ==In 1993 alone"cfhistory"/> May was a dedicated conservationist concerned with population growth and a close friend of [[John Tanton]], another conservationist turned an anti-immigration activist, responsible for the Scaife creation of a [[John Tanton Network|network]] of anti-immigrant groups, such as [[Center for Immigration Studies]] (CIS) and Carthage foundations donated more than $17.6 million to conservative [[think tanksFederation for American Immigration Reform]](FAIR).==<ref name=Scaife's foundations' grants by 1999===By 1999"PRW">Katie Lorenze, the ''Washington Post ''reported that Scaife's foundations had given $340 million to conservative causes and institutions.[httphttps://www.washingtonpostprwatch.comorg/wp-srvnews/politics2013/special05/clinton12128/stories/scaife050299.htmscaife-funded-network-works-hard-kill-immigration-reform "Scaife-Funded Network Works Hard to Kill Immigration Reform"] By 2002, they held more than $320 million in assets''PRWatch'', May 31, 2013</ref><ref name="bankroll">Stephen Piggott, and in that year alone they gave away more than $22 million.[http://wwwimagine2050.scaifenewcomm.comorg/sarah02.pdf][http:2011/09/01/www.scaife.comquiz-time-which-single-foundation-almost-solely-bankrolls-the-entirety-of-the-john-tanton-network/allegh02.pdf"Quiz Time: Which Single Foundation Almost Solely Bankroll’s the Entirety of the John Tanton Network?"][http://www.scaife.com, ''Imagine 2050'', September 1, 2011</cartha02.pdf] Grant recipients included:ref>
Colcom has given tens of millions of dollars to Tanton's groups, including FAIR, CIS, and [[NumbersUSA]] since 2001.<ref>''Bridge Project'' profile on: [http://bridgeproject.com/?organization&id=289974 "Colcom Foundation"], organizational website, accessed May 2013</ref> From 2008-2010 alone, Colcom gave over 25 million dollars to these and other anti-immigrant organizations.<ref name="bankroll"/>
==Bankrolling Anti-Immigration Groups==
Cordelia Scaife May, founder and director the Colcom Foundation until her death in 2005, was an environmentalist committed to population control and believed limiting immigration was a way to succeed in this endeavor. Since 2001, Colcom has been the primary funder for many groups in the anti-immigrant [[John Tanton Network]], giving over $17 million to [[NumbersUSA]], almost $15 million to the [[Federation for American Immigration Reform]], and more than $6 million to the [[Center for Immigration Studies]].<ref name="PRW"/>
Richard Scaife, through his management of the Carthage Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and together with the Scaife Family Foundation (controlled by Richard Scaife’s children since 2001) has donated more than $4 million to FAIR and more than $3 million to CIS since the early 1990s. Additionally, since 2001, the foundations have given ProEnglish $285,000 and NumbersUSA $987,500. The Scaife Family Foundation is also the sole funder of ProEnglish.<ref name="PRW"/>
==Funding Islamophobia in the United States==
Research from the Center for American Progress (CAP) indicates that a Scaife foundation has funded various organizations and individuals contributing to anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States. The organization contributed $7,875,000 to Islamophobic groups between 2001 and 2009. Some of the main recipients included the [[Center for Security Policy]], the Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.<ref>Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir, [http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf Fear Inc.]: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, CAB, August 2011.</ref>
== Finances and Grants Issued ==
In 1993 alone, the Scaife and Carthage foundations donated more than $17.6 million to conservative [[think tanks]]{{fact}}.
In 1999, the ''Washington Post'' reported that Scaife's foundations had given $340 million to conservative causes and institutions.<ref>''Washington Post'', [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaife050299.htm special series on Clinton featuring Richard Scaife], May 1999</ref>
By 2002, they held more than $320 million in assets, and in that year alone they gave away more than $22 million.<ref>Sarah Scaife Foundation, [http://www.scaife.com/sarah02.pdf "2002 Annual Report"]</ref><ref>Allegheny Foundation, [http://www.scaife.com/allegh02.pdf "2002 Annual Report"]</ref><ref>Carthage Foundation, [http://www.scaife.com/cartha02.pdf "2002 Annual Report"]</ref>
Grant recipients have included:
*[[American Civil Rights Union]]
*[[American Enterprise Institute]]
*[[University of Chicago]]
== Contact information ==
Scaife Foundations<br>
Web: http://www.scaife.com
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===Related SourceWatch articlesArticles===
*[[Conservative foundations]]
*[[Foundations and Funders]]
*[[Gulf Oil]]
===External resourcesResources===*[http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=3 Media Transparency: Scaife Foundations](grants and other info, 2006&earlier)*[http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/search?limit=funders&name=scaife&year=all&ffield=Select+Field&fcmp=greater&fval= MediaMatters] (grants and other info, 1985-2009, albeit incomplete - e.g. doesn't include Sarah Scaife Foundation grants to [[National Association of Scholars]] (as of 2011-08-13))*[http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Scaife_Foundations Scaife Foundations on Right Web]
===External articles===
*Robert G. Kaiser, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifemain050399.htm Money, Family Name Shaped Scaife], The Washington Post, May 3, 1999.
*Jamie Doward, "[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1061442,00.html US millionaire bankrolls crusade against gay Anglican priests]," ''The Observer'' (UK), October 12, 2003, mentions the role of Scaife as well as [[Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr.]].
*[http://www.politicalfriendster.com/entireList.php?search=1&name=scaife&type=-1&position=&party=-1&industry=&images=onPolitical Friendster], ; Links to Scaife family members and allows network connections to be selected and displayed.* Brendan DeMelle [http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-denial-palooza-sponsors-have-received-67-million-exxonmobil-koch-and-scaife-foundations#comment-form Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received $67 Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations] DeSmogBlog 22/05/2012 ===References===<references/>
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