The Ford Foundation has long sought to use its vast wealth to reshape the legal landscape. But until recently it has focused on influencing various left-wing nonprofit law firms and…
Philanthropy Notes is part of Foundation Watch. For the full PDF, click here. U.S. Department of Justice employees have given so much money to Hillary Clinton’s campaign that critics…
Read the PDF version here The Ford Foundation, which long ago abandoned the conservatism of its benefactor, is trying to help the Left seize control of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation was founded in 1971 by the insurance billionaire John D. MacArthur. But in another case of “donor intent” gone awry, the free-market entrepreneur’s fortune—now…
Behind activist board member Marjorie Scardino, the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation has worked to restrict speech on social media platforms. But controlling discourse on Facebook and Twitter is actually…
The free speech-averse John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation aspires to leverage social media and educational testing in order to strengthen elite control of all aspects of…
Based on the Rockefeller Foundation’s left-wing leanings, one would assume that John D. Rockefeller—the oil magnate who founded the foundation—was a bleeding-heart liberal. Not quite. Rockefeller was actually…
At the end of 2014, the Rockefeller Foundation reported having assets of $4.2 billion, making it the 14th largest foundation in the United States. For those…
(PDF here) (Note: This edition of Foundation Watch updates an earlier report on the pro-assisted suicide movement. For further background, please see “Universal Hemlock Care: America’s Suicide Lobby”…