That same year, 82 foundations with total assets of $10 billion provided $0.8 billion for conservative causes.
Detailed quantification in the book The New Leviathan showed that 122 major foundations with total assets of $105 billion provided $8.8 billion of funding for liberal causes in 2010. But for those that do, the reality is that much more philanthropic money has been deployed leftward than rightward. Not all public policies split neatly into “Left” or “Right” variants. And since one man’s good deed is another man’s calamity when it comes to giving with political implications, we have included policy advocacy of all sorts on this list. Sometimes it’s not enough to build a house of worship one must erect guardrails that protect the ability of citizens to practice their faith freely.īecause public-policy philanthropy has only become common recently, this list has more entries dating from the latest generation, compared to our other lists of U.S. Sometimes it is not enough to pay for a scholarship one must change laws so that high-quality public schools exist for scholarship recipients to take advantage of. Unless and until that expansion of the state reverses, it is unrealistic to expect the philanthropic sector to stop trying to have a say in public policies. GDP was consumed by government by 2012 that tripled to 36 percent. This is perhaps inevitable given the mushrooming presence of government in our lives. From school choice to creation of think tanks of all stripes, from tort reform to gay advocacy, donors have become involved in many efforts to shape opinion and law. Many donors now view public-policy reform as a necessary adjunct to their efforts to improve lives directly. Donating money to modify public thinking and government policy has now taken its place next to service-centered giving as a constructive branch of philanthropy.
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