Foundation Watch

Foundation Watch is a monthly newsletter put out by the Capital Research Center that looks at the grant making of private foundations.

Recent contributors

Recent contributors to Foundation Watch include:

When is a foundation not a foundation? When it gives away other foundations’ money. [1]

• Ron Arnold, the Executive Director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
• Neil Hrab from the Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Martin Morse Wooster
• John Carlisle, the editor of Foundation Watch
• Robert Lerner partner in Lerner and Nagai Quantitative Consulting
• Althea K. Nagai partner in Lerner and Nagai Quantitative Consulting
• Robert Huberty CRC's Executive Vice-President and Director of Research
• David RiggsDirector of CRC's Greenwatch
• Gretchen Randall partner in Chicago PR company Winningreen
• Tom Randall partner in Chicago PR company Winningreen
• Ivan G. Osorio, Editorial Director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute;
• Patrick Reilly, who edited Foundation Watch until approximately 2000.

Recent editions

• Patrick Reilly, "Not a grassroots campaign: foundations, government bankroll anti-tobacco crusade", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, August 1998. (“Substantial research assistance was provided by Koch Foundation fellow Karen Jones, a junior classics major at the University of Dallas and Brendan Scanlon, a junior history major at Boston College”).
• Patrick Reilly, Smoking out the gun industry: foundations repeat anti-tobacco tactics in assault on guns, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, August 1999. (“Substantial research assistance was provided by Koch Foundation fellow Karen Jones, a junior classics major at the University of Dallas and Brendan Scanlon, a junior history major at Boston College”).
• Patrick Reilly, "The Tides Foundation and Center: unusual philanthropies funnel money to activist groups", Foundation Watch, January 1998.
• Ron Arnold, “Tides Foundation’s Activist Network exerts ‘undue influence’”, Foundation Watch, April 2000.
• Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai, “Explorations in non-profits: Part 1: Trends and disparities”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, June 2002.
• Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai, “Explorations in non-profits: Part 2: Environmentalists gain ground: education and human service nonprofits remain dominant in ‘90s”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, July 2002.
• Martin Morse Wooster, "Nation’s leading foundations violate donor intent: foundations funding America’s left have conservative origins", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, October 2002.
• Neil Hrab, "George Soros: a bridge to radicalism: Soros funds a leftwing network addressing media, legal and social issues", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, February 2003.
• John K. Carlisle, "Feminist movement exploits sports to advance agneds: ‘gender equity’ groups and think tanks target professional and collegiate athletics’", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, June 2003.
• Robert Huberty and David Riggs, "NGO Accountability: what the U.S. can teach the U.N.: applying U.S. nonprofit disclosure laws to international NGOs", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, July 2003.
• Neil Hrab, "A look at the Macarthur Foundation", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, August 2003.
• Neil Hrab, "The Macarthur Foundation on foreign policy and defense: funding the left’s counterattack on Bush Administration policies", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, September 2003.
• Martin Morse Wooster, "The Ford Foundation: it keeps a low profile, but funds government entitlements, racial preferences, legal activists", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, October 2003.
• Ivan G. Osorio, "The international green agenda: U.S. foundations support environmental activists on the world stage", Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, November 2003.
• Gretchen Randall and Tom Randall, “Tides Foundation: liberal crossroads of money and ideas”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, December 2003.
• John Carlisle, George Soros: his plan to defeat George Bush: part 1: philanthropist gives millions to America Coming Together (ACT), Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, February 2004.
• John Carlisle, George Soros and MoveOn.org: his plan to defeat George Bush: part 2: his money and the internet are new tools for advocacy politics, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, March 2004.
• Ron Arnold “The Heinz foundations and the Kerry campaign: one has money, the other needs money”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, April 2004.
• Ron Arnold, “The Pew Charitable Trusts: global warming power nexus”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, May 2004.