Think Tank Funding and Policy Links
Foundations and donor-advised funds fund think tanks. This page reads the grantors’ own IRS filings and shows what those think tanks published or lobbied on afterwards. The largest grantors on record are donor-advised-fund sponsors (Schwab Charitable, Fidelity Charitable). They are the legal grantor, not the original donor. A chain here means a funder gave, and the think tank is on record on an outcome dated after that funding.
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Think tanks are identified by EIN from a curated list. Revenue figures are each organization’s own IRS Form 990 total revenue for the most recent filing available through ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. "Schedule I grants" are grants the grantor reported on its own IRS Form 990 Schedule I, so they cover only grantors whose filings have been ingested (foundations and donor-advised-fund sponsors; a DAF sponsor is the legal grantor, not the original donor). "Press estimates" are figures from investigative reporting seeded without a filing citation. They are shown for context and never added to any total. "Policy links" are relationship records saying a think tank published research on, lobbied on, or advocated on a specific policy outcome. The label shows what the record says and the stance where the text states one. Links flagged "editorial inference" have no document-level citation. In the pipeline, an outcome is chained to a funder only when it is dated after the end of the grant’s tax year (or after the donation date). The funding shown is publicly disclosed, and no violation of law is alleged. None of this is proof of causation.