Scaife Foundations

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According to the Media Transparency website, the Scaife Foundations are

Financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman of the foundation.[1]

One of the Scaife Foundations, the Scaife Family Foundation, has been a major funder of the conservative think tank the Hudson Institute.[2]

Affiliations

Hudson Institute | Scaife Family Foundation | Sarah Scaife Foundation

Notes

  1. "The Scaife Foundations", Media Transparency website, accessed March 23 2009
  2. Grants to Hudson Institute, Inc. from Scaife Family Foundation, Media Transparency website, accessed March 28 2009