Stuart Family Foundation

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Not to be confused with the Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Family Foundation is a conservative foundation set up by Robert D. Stuart Jr., former chairman of the Quaker Oats Company and U.S. ambassador to Norway under Ronald Reagan [1], in 1986.

Mission

According to the Robert D. Stuart Jr, the foundation is 'dedicated to strengthening America, at home and abroad':

'We support the mechanisms that have made America a great nation: the core values of its civil society, its honest and efficient government, and its strong national defense. All of our major program areas—media, civic education, national security and federal campaign finance—reflect this philosophy.'[1]

Its goal is tom 'to influence public policy and bolster high ethical values and patriotism'.

Activities

The Stuart Family Foundation funds a range of causes. These include the Parents Television Council and Common Sense Media, both of which encourage 'family-friendly programming'.

The bulk of the grants awarded by the foundation however support security, counter-terrorism and foreign policy groups, such as the the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, Jamestown Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.[1] Since 2011, they have also repeatedly provided funding to the 'counter-extremism' think-tank Quilliam Foundation.

Grants

Grant recipients of the Stuart Family Foundation in $ USD [2]
Organisation 2009 2010 2011[3] 2012[4] 2013[5] 2014[6] 2015[7] Total 2009-2015
America Abroad Media - - 150,000 150,000 450,000 210,000 200,000 710,000
American Enterprise Institute - - 2,500 50,000 - 50,000 50,000 152,500
Bipartisan Policy Center - - 25,000 100,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 575,000
Center for Strategic & International Studies - - 130,000 11,667 106,300 115,000 - 256,667
Council on Foreign Relations - - - 75,000 - - - 75,000
FPRI - - 5,000 5,000 - - - 10,000
Heritage Foundation - - - 50,000 - - - 50,000
Jamestown Foundation - - 95,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 85,000 330,000
Lexington Institute - - 75,000 65,000 - 65,000 - 205,000
Manhattan Institute - - - 10,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 235,000
Middle East Media Research Institute - - 35,000 - - - - 35,000
Philanthropy Roundtable - - 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 20,000
Quilliam Foundation - - 245,000 250,000 175,000 150,000 260,000 1,050,000
Terror Free Tomorrow - - 40,000 - - - - 40,000

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