John M Olin Foundation

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The New York-based John M. Olin Foundation, which grew out of the Olin Corporation a family manufacturing business (chemical and munitions), funded a range of US right-wing think tanks until it closed its doors in 2005.


Its more notable grantees included the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace and Charles Murray.

It also gave large sums of money to promote conservative programs in the country's most prestigious colleges and universities.

According to Media Matters, the John M. Olin Foundation closed its doors in November 2005.