Fundador:
Thomas Anderson Roe, Jr.
Fundador de la State Policy Network
Fundador del South Carolina Policy Council
Fundador, patrono y ex-tesorero de la Heritage Foundation
Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies en la Heritage Foundation
Presidente:
Shirley W. Roe
Vicepresidente:
Edwin J. Feulner
Presidente de la Heritage Foundation
Otros:
Carl O. Helstrom, III
Director ejecutivo de la J.M. Foundation
Tracie Sharp
Directora ejecutiva de la State Policy Network
Año de fundación:
1998
Sede actual:
Greenville, Carolina del Sur
Orígen de la riqueza:
Builder Marts of America Inc. (ferretería)
Citizens Lumber Company (madera)
Activos:
$29,545,157 (2011)
Principios:
According to the conservative «opposition research» think tank Capital Research Center (CRC), Roe believed in maintaining «donor intent,» so the foundation his personal wealth endowed, the Roe Foundation, has explicit by-laws and requires grantees to «sign a document promising to uphold» the following principles:
«First, ‘the maximum potential of a free people is achieved when they are free to control their own destiny’; second, ‘the greatest threat to these freedoms is intrusive government’; and third, ‘the Judeo-Christian tradition represents the underpinnings of a just society.’ Furthermore, recipients of the foundation’s support must recognize ‘the importance of state and local organizations functioning alongside national organizations in the pursuit of a free society.’ Finally, they must ‘educate the public at large and all public policy makers to a better understanding of these fundamental values and practical ways to achieve the goals of expanding human freedom.'»
Orientación religiosa:
Episcopal
Destinos de la financiación
Ver nota
Think tanks
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution $3,000
Atlas Economic Research Foundation $217,500
Beacon Hill Institute $132,500
Bluegrass Institute $55,000
Capital Research Center $95,000
Cato Institute $52,500
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation $6,000
Center for Market Processes $5,000
Competitive Enterprise Institute $60,000
Ethan Allen Institute $60,000
Ethics and Public Policy Center $20,000
Evergreen Freedom Foundation $265,000
Foundation for Research on Economics $4,000
Free State Foundation $15,000
Freestate Center for Liberty Studies $7,500
Frontiers of Freedom Institute $7,500
Galen Institute $5,000
Goldwater Institute $167,500
Heartland Institute $41,500
Heritage Foundation, The $931,000
Independence Institute $157,500
Institute for Economic Studies Europe $1,000
Institute for Policy Innovation $23,500
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation $1,000
Institute of Economic Affairs $15,000
International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics $2,000
International Policy Network $2,500
James Madison Institute $200,000
John Locke Foundation $180,000
Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy $98,500
Mackinac Center for Public Policy $255,000
Manhattan Institute $18,500
Mercatus Center $40,000
National Center for Policy Analysis $12,500
National Center for Public Policy Research $3,000
Pacific Research Institute $25,000
Reason Foundation $185,000
Rockford Institute $1,000
State Policy Network $9,500,000 (1998-2011)
Sutherland Institute $115,000
Tax Foundation $55,000
Front groups
Americans for Prosperity Foundation $1,000
Americans for Tax Reform $30,000
Citizens Against Government Waste $5,000
Consumer Alert $40,000
FreedomWorks $2,000
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii $40,000
Institute for Health Freedom $100
National Taxpayers Union $9,000
Activismo judicial
American Legislative Exchange Council $20,000
Federalist Society $33,000
Institute for Justice $90,000
Judicial Watch $1,000
Landmark Legal Foundation $21,000
Mountain States Legal Foundation $5,000
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation $13,500
Pacific Legal Foundation $7,000
Southeastern Legal Foundation $4,500
Texas Justice Foundation $25,000
Antiecologismo
Defenders of Property Rights $13,500
Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment $4,000
Property and Environment Research Center $230,000
Fundamentalismo cristiano
Acton Institute $45,000
Alabama Family Alliance $43,500
Center for Civic Renewal $20,000
Christ Church $593
Christ Church Episcopal School $110,000
Claremont Institute $98,500
Episcopal Church Home for Children $2,500
Episcopalians United $1,000
Family Research Council $3,000
Miracle Hill Ministries $219,800
Mississippi Family Council $19,000
Of the People Foundation $1,000
Salvation Army – Greenville County $10,000
Salvation Army $2,500
Second Presbyterian Church $100
Tennessee Family Institute $20,000 Toward Tradition $22,500
Política y americanismo
American Alternative Foundation, Inc. $2,000
American Conservative Union Foundation $1,000
America’s Future Foundation $57,500
Bill of Rights Institute $2,000
Center for Individual Rights $3,000
Center of the American Experiment $115,000
Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives $108,000
Constitutional Heritage Foundation $12,500
Fund for American Studies, The $18,500
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History $1,000
National Defense Council Foundation $10,000
Public Interest Institute $1,000
Public Service Research Foundation $1,000
Tennessee Family Institute $20,000
Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy $103,000
Toward Tradition $22,500
U.S. English Foundation $9,000
Activismo educativo
Boys Home of the South $25,000
Center for Education Reform $108,000
Education and Research Institute, The $2,500
Foundation for Economic Education $42,500
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education $4,000
Foundation for Teaching Economics $20,500
Hidden Treasure Christian School $30,000
Intercollegiate Studies Institute $505,000
South Carolina Children’s Theatre $24,500
Young America’s Foundation $2,500
Universidad
Bob Jones University $5,000
Museum and Gallery $5,000 12/1/1998
Clemson University $22,500
Furman University $27,000
George Mason University $27,500
George Mason University Arlington $5,000
Law & Economics Center-General operating fund $5,000 12/31/2003
George Mason University Law Economics Center $2,500
Leadership Institute $21,000
North Greenville University $33,886
St. John’s Academy $2,500
StudentNewsDaily.com $5,000
Medios de comunicación
Media Research Center $16,500
Western Journalism Center $3,000
Antifeminismo
Independent Women’s Forum $25,000
Piedmont Women’s Center $41,000
Women’s Freedom Network $2,000
Redes de filantropía
Association of Small Foundations $3,500
DonorsTrust $25,000
Foundation Management Institute $2,500
Mont Pelerin Society $95,000
Philanthropy Roundtable $28,000
Listado detallado de destinos de financiación
Fuentes
Referencias
State Policy Network – Wikipedia, 31/01/2012 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network
“SPN was founded in 1992 by Thomas A. Roe, a South Carolina businessman and Republican Party activist who also served as a member of the board of trustees of the Heritage Foundation and had in 1986 founded the South Carolina Policy Council, now an SPN member group.[2][3][4] Roe was concerned that the program of «New Federalism» fostered under U.S. President Ronald Reagan had transferred powers and resources to state-level bureaucrats who «weren’t necessarily better than» their federal government counterparts. In conversation, he told Reagan that he thought each of the states needed something like the Heritage Foundation. Reagan’s reply reportedly was “Do something about it,” which led Roe to establish first the South Carolina Policy Council and later the State Policy Network.[4][5] The network was an outgrowth of the Madison Group, a collection of state-level think tanks in states including South Carolina, Colorado, Illinois, and Michigan that had been meeting periodically at the Madison Hotel in Washington, DC.”
John J. Miller – Fifty Flowers Bloom – National Review, 19/11/2007 – http://www.heymiller.com/2009/09/fifty-flowers-bloom/
“SPN was founded at the suggestion of President Ronald Reagan, according to the National Reviewx and SPN’s website. In a conversation with Thomas Roe, a South Carolina building supply magnate, Reagan allegedly suggested Roe create «something like a Heritage Foundation in each of the states.» So in 1986, Roe founded the South Carolina Policy Council. Similar groups – self-denominated as state-based think tanks – formed in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, and elsewhere at around the same time. Representatives of those groups met at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., and started to call themselves the «Madison Group.» Roe later officially founded SPN as an «umbrella organization» to provide «advisory services» – bankrolled by Roe and other right-wing funders – in 1992.”
Roe Foundation – Sourcewatch, 17/07/2013 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roe_Foundation
“Roe gave Mont Pelerin Society and the Philadelphia Society «standing to sue» the Roe Foundation if, after his death, the Roe Foundation makes a grant to an organization “whose activities or public statements reflect a belief in a collectivist world or any view inconsistent” with the foundation’s announced principles (emphasis added), according to Chicago lawyer Paul Rhoads, who has written for the Philanthropy Roundtable.”
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