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      RECIPIENTS OF FUNDER
	recipients by amount granted from: 
	Sarah Scaife Foundation
	   Media Transparency Profile 
For years: 
1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 
Total contributed: $ 264,560,000 
 
         
          | Name | 
          Total | 
         
  
| Heritage Foundation, The | 
19,635,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc. | 
9,698,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | 
8,628,000 | 
       
  
| Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace | 
8,545,500 | 
       
  
| Free Congress Foundation, Inc. | 
5,708,000 | 
       
  
| Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. | 
5,625,000 | 
       
  
| Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation | 
5,350,000 | 
       
  
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | 
5,286,000 | 
       
  
| National Association of Scholars, Inc. | 
4,756,000 | 
       
  
| Tufts University | 
4,650,000 | 
       
  
| University of Chicago | 
4,335,800 | 
       
  
| David Horowitz Freedom Center | 
4,100,000 | 
       
  
| Landmark Legal Foundation | 
3,875,000 | 
       
  
| Judicial Watch | 
3,840,000 | 
       
  
| Capital Research Center | 
3,775,000 | 
       
  
| University of Virginia Law School Foundation | 
3,745,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for Cultural Review, Inc. | 
3,595,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Security Policy, Inc. | 
3,476,000 | 
       
  
| George Mason University Foundation, Inc. | 
3,350,000 | 
       
  
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. | 
3,335,000 | 
       
  
| Carnegie Mellon University | 
3,112,000 | 
       
  
| Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, The | 
3,030,000 | 
       
  
| Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. | 
3,000,000 | 
       
  
| Phipps Conservatory, Inc. | 
2,971,000 | 
       
  
| Pacific Legal Foundation | 
2,930,000 | 
       
  
| Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc. | 
2,830,000 | 
       
  
| Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy | 
2,672,000 | 
       
  
| Accuracy in Media, Inc. | 
2,640,000 | 
       
  
| National Gallery of Art | 
2,500,000 | 
       
  
| Hudson Institute, Inc. | 
2,483,000 | 
       
  
| Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship | 
2,475,000 | 
       
  
| George C. Marshall Institute | 
2,475,000 | 
       
  
| National Strategy Information Center, Inc. | 
2,323,000 | 
       
  
| Boston University (Boston) | 
2,245,500 | 
       
  
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | 
2,180,000 | 
       
  
| American Spectator Educational Foundation, Inc. | 
2,175,000 | 
       
  
| Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) | 
2,017,000 | 
       
  
| Media Research Center, Inc. | 
1,992,000 | 
       
  
| Bowling Green State University | 
1,960,000 | 
       
  
| Cato Institute | 
1,937,500 | 
       
  
| Pepperdine University | 
1,925,000 | 
       
  
| University of Virginia | 
1,830,000 | 
       
  
| Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation | 
1,810,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation | 
1,780,000 | 
       
  
| Competitive Enterprise Institute | 
1,690,000 | 
       
  
| Independent Women's Forum | 
1,675,000 | 
       
  
| George Mason University | 
1,656,000 | 
       
  
| Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives | 
1,647,000 | 
       
  
| Atlantic Legal Foundation | 
1,630,000 | 
       
  
| Collegiate Network, Inc. | 
1,595,000 | 
       
  
| Smith College | 
1,550,000 | 
       
  
| Reason Foundation | 
1,541,000 | 
       
  
| Atlas Economic Research Foundation | 
1,520,000 | 
       
  
| National Center for Policy Analysis | 
1,510,000 | 
       
  
| National Institute for Public Policy | 
1,450,000 | 
       
  
| Allegheny Institute for Public Policy | 
1,427,500 | 
       
  
| California University of Pennsylvania | 
1,385,000 | 
       
  
| New York University | 
1,381,000 | 
       
  
| Freedom House, Inc. | 
1,360,000 | 
       
  
| Southeastern Legal Foundation | 
1,350,000 | 
       
  
| Jamestown Foundation | 
1,345,000 | 
       
  
| Southwest Missouri State University | 
1,334,000 | 
       
  
| World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh | 
1,327,500 | 
       
  
| Foundation for California University of Pennsylvania | 
1,260,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Contemporary Studies | 
1,255,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for American Communications | 
1,240,000 | 
       
  
| Institute on Religion and Democracy, Inc. | 
1,225,000 | 
       
  
| Institute on Religion and Public Life, Inc. | 
1,225,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Justice | 
1,145,000 | 
       
  
| Foreign Policy Research Institute | 
1,120,000 | 
       
  
| National Taxpayers Union Foundation | 
1,080,000 | 
       
  
| American Civil Rights Institute | 
1,075,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Health Freedom | 
1,075,000 | 
       
  
| Federation for American Immigration Reform | 
1,025,000 | 
       
  
| Johns Hopkins University | 
965,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Individual Rights | 
950,000 | 
       
  
| University of Rochester | 
937,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Media and Public Affairs, Inc. | 
860,000 | 
       
  
| Law and Economics Center | 
860,000 | 
       
  
| New England Legal Foundation | 
855,000 | 
       
  
| Center for the Study of the Presidency | 
850,000 | 
       
  
| American Academy for Liberal Education | 
835,000 | 
       
  
| Duquesne University | 
820,000 | 
       
  
| Allegheny Conference on Community Development | 
785,000 | 
       
  
| Maldon Institute, Inc. | 
775,000 | 
       
  
| Statistical Assessment Service | 
750,000 | 
       
  
| Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Foundation, The | 
700,000 | 
       
  
| Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh | 
700,000 | 
       
  
| University of South Carolina | 
695,000 | 
       
  
| Rockford Institute | 
675,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Humane Studies | 
670,000 | 
       
  
| University of Pittsburgh | 
610,000 | 
       
  
| Washington Legal Foundation | 
610,000 | 
       
  
| Gateway Rehabilitation Center | 
600,000 | 
       
  
| FreedomWorks Foundation | 
600,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) | 
575,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Inc. | 
575,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Equal Opportunity | 
570,000 | 
       
  
| National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. | 
557,000 | 
       
  
| Alaska Pacific University | 
550,000 | 
       
  
| Michigan State University | 
538,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation Endowment | 
535,000 | 
       
  
| Environmental Literacy Council | 
525,000 | 
       
  
| George Washington University | 
515,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Immigration Studies | 
515,000 | 
       
  
| Stanford University | 
500,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies | 
500,000 | 
       
  
| Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union | 
500,000 | 
       
  
| Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation | 
500,000 | 
       
  
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | 
500,000 | 
       
  
| Tax Foundation | 
485,000 | 
       
  
| Defenders of Property Rights | 
475,000 | 
       
  
| California, University of, Berkeley | 
470,000 | 
       
  
| National Legal and Policy Center | 
465,000 | 
       
  
| New Citizenship Project, Inc. | 
452,400 | 
       
  
| Safe Streets Alliance | 
450,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Educational Affairs | 
420,000 | 
       
  
| Media Institute | 
420,000 | 
       
  
| Johns Hopkins University -- SAIS | 
410,000 | 
       
  
| National Affairs, Inc. | 
410,000 | 
       
  
| Clemson University Foundation | 
410,000 | 
       
  
| American Foreign Policy Council | 
400,000 | 
       
  
| UCLA Foundation | 
400,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Inc. | 
400,000 | 
       
  
| Southwest Missouri State University Foundation | 
390,000 | 
       
  
| Americans for Tax Reform Foundation | 
375,000 | 
       
  
| Clemson University | 
370,000 | 
       
  
| Invest-In-America National Council, Inc. | 
355,000 | 
       
  
| Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation | 
350,000 | 
       
  
| ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc. | 
325,000 | 
       
  
| Heartland Institute | 
325,000 | 
       
  
| Saint Vincent College | 
325,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for Teaching Economics | 
315,000 | 
       
  
| Evergreen Freedom Foundation | 
310,000 | 
       
  
| American Bar Association Fund for Public Education | 
305,000 | 
       
  
| Corporation for Educational Radio and Television | 
300,000 | 
       
  
| Shady Side Academy | 
300,000 | 
       
  
| Tufts University-Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy | 
300,000 | 
       
  
| California, University of, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 
285,000 | 
       
  
| KCET Television | 
275,000 | 
       
  
| Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty | 
275,000 | 
       
  
| Mid-America Institute for Public Policy Research | 
271,000 | 
       
  
| American Council of Trustees and Alumni | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| Capital Legal Foundation | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| High Frontier | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| Mineral Information Institute | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| Counterterrorism & Security Education and Research Foundation | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| Betty Ford Center at Eisenhower, The | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| Americans for Effective Law Enforcement | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| American Civil Rights Union | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| War for Empire, Inc. | 
250,000 | 
       
  
| One Nation/One California Research and Education Fund | 
240,000 | 
       
  
| Galen Institute, Inc. | 
240,000 | 
       
  
| Claremont McKenna College | 
235,300 | 
       
  
| USS Constitution Museum Foundation, Inc. | 
232,500 | 
       
  
| Fraser Institute, The | 
225,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Policy Innovation | 
225,000 | 
       
  
| Vanderbilt University | 
225,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Peace and Freedom | 
220,000 | 
       
  
| National Center for Public Policy Research, Inc. | 
210,000 | 
       
  
| Committee on the Present Danger | 
210,000 | 
       
  
| Washington University | 
205,000 | 
       
  
| American Council on Science and Health | 
205,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Neighborhood Enterprise | 
200,000 | 
       
  
| Whidbey Island Films | 
200,000 | 
       
  
| Thoreau Institute, The | 
200,000 | 
       
  
| Kansas University Endowment Association | 
200,000 | 
       
  
| Historical Society (Philadelphia, PA) | 
200,000 | 
       
  
| Empower.org | 
200,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for Economic Education | 
196,500 | 
       
  
| Center for Security Studies | 
192,000 | 
       
  
| Downtown Management Organization, The | 
190,000 | 
       
  
| Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced and International Studies | 
187,000 | 
       
  
| Texas A&M University | 
182,500 | 
       
  
| Mid-Atlantic Legal Foundation | 
180,000 | 
       
  
| Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow | 
175,000 | 
       
  
| Citizens for a Sound Economy Educational Foundation | 
175,000 | 
       
  
| America's Future Foundation | 
170,000 | 
       
  
| Ellis Memorial and Eldredge House, Inc. | 
160,000 | 
       
  
| Mercatus Center | 
160,000 | 
       
  
| Institute for Philosophical and Social Research | 
150,000 | 
       
  
| Salvation Army Western Pennsylvania Division, The | 
150,000 | 
       
  
| Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) | 
150,000 | 
       
  
| Georgetown University | 
147,000 | 
       
  
| Ligonier Valley School District | 
142,500 | 
       
  
| Committee for the Free World, Inc. | 
135,000 | 
       
  
| Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee | 
135,000 | 
       
  
| Harvard University | 
130,000 | 
       
  
| University of Toronto | 
130,000 | 
       
  
| American Jewish Committee | 
120,000 | 
       
  
| United States Global Strategy Council | 
120,000 | 
       
  
| Council for Basic Education | 
120,000 | 
       
  
| Carnegie Institute | 
116,000 | 
       
  
| Acton Institute For The Study of Religion and Liberty | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Education Policy Institute | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Frontiers of Freedom Institute | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Mackinac Center for Public Policy | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Philanthropy Roundtable | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| California, University of, Irvine | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| George C. Marshall Foundation | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Public Research, Syndicated | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Market Processes, Inc | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| National Defense University Foundation, Inc. | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| University of Kentucky | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| St. Francis General Hospital | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| UPG Foundation | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| American Red Cross Emergency Services of Southwestern Pennsylvania | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| National Aviary Pittsburgh, Inc. | 
100,000 | 
       
  
| Association of Literary Scholars and Critics | 
90,000 | 
       
  
| Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute | 
85,000 | 
       
  
| Geneva College | 
85,000 | 
       
  
| National Legal Center for The Public Interest | 
80,000 | 
       
  
| Princeton University | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Mountain States Legal Foundation | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Grove City College | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Women for Freedom | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Sequoia Institute | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences, Inc. | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for Endowment | 
75,000 | 
       
  
| Toward Tradition | 
70,000 | 
       
  
| Corporation for Maintaining Editorial Diversity in America | 
70,000 | 
       
  
| University of Hull American Foundation | 
60,000 | 
       
  
| Center for a Free Cuba | 
60,000 | 
       
  
| Economic Education for Clergy, Inc. | 
56,000 | 
       
  
| Philadelphia Society, The | 
55,000 | 
       
  
| National Flag Foundation | 
55,000 | 
       
  
| Claremont Graduate University | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Women's Freedom Network | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| University of Southern California | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Campus Coalition for Democracy | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Judicial Studies | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Americans Back In Charge | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| American Defense Institute, Inc. | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| America's Survival, Inc. | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Cinema Foundation, Inc., The | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| City of Pittsburgh | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Pennsylvania District Attorney's Institute | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| British American Arts Association, Inc. | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Allegheny County, Office of the District Attorney | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| International Policy Network | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Ebenezer Development Corporation | 
50,000 | 
       
  
| Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation | 
45,000 | 
       
  
| Better Government Association, Inc | 
43,500 | 
       
  
| National Endowment for Democracy | 
40,000 | 
       
  
| Global Foundation, Inc. | 
40,000 | 
       
  
| United States Strategic Institute | 
40,000 | 
       
  
| Nantucket Sustainable Development Corporation | 
40,000 | 
       
  
| City of Greensburg | 
37,500 | 
       
  
| Cornell University | 
34,700 | 
       
  
| Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation | 
32,500 | 
       
  
| Coalition for Local Sovereignty | 
30,000 | 
       
  
| Indiana University | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Mont Pelerin Society, The | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Criminal Justice Legal Foundation | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Rutgers University | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Naval War College Foundation, Inc. | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Lafayette College | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| International Institute for Economic Research | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Pennsylvanians for Effective Government Education Committee | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Research Center for Government Financial Management | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| American Trust for Oxford University | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Mid-America Legal Foundation | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| GREATER PITTSBURGH OFFICE OF PROMOTION | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Pennsylvania Economy League, Inc. | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Claremont University Center | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve | 
25,000 | 
       
  
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | 
20,000 | 
       
  
| United States Naval Academy Alumni Association | 
16,000 | 
       
  
| Catholic University of America | 
15,000 | 
       
  
| University of Texas at Austin | 
12,800 | 
       
  
| Universities Field Staff International | 
12,000 | 
       
  
| Executive Council on Foreign Diplomats | 
10,000 | 
       
  
| Critical Review Foundation, Inc. | 
10,000 | 
       
  
| Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education, Ltd. | 
10,000 | 
       
  
| Thomas Jefferson Research Center | 
10,000 | 
       
  
| The MS Awareness Foundation | 
10,000 | 
       
  
| Villanova University | 
8,000 | 
       
  
| Animal Care of Westmoreland County | 
5,000 | 
       
  
| Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs | 
5,000 | 
       
  
| Navy League of the United States | 
5,000 | 
       
 
 
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