Quote by Jane Mayer

“the John M. Olin Foundation in 1953, Olin embarked on a radical new course. He began to fund an ambitious offensive to reorient the…

— Jane Mayer

“These guys, individually and collectively, created a new philanthropic form, which was movement philanthropy,” said Rob Stein, a progressive political strategist, speaking of the…

— Jane Mayer

“Olin Foundation made a key $25,000 investment of its own in an unknown writer named Charles Murray, funding a grant at the Manhattan Institute…

— Jane Mayer

“in 2005, the Olin Foundation had supported eleven separate programs at Harvard, burnishing the foundation’s name and ideas and proving that even the best-endowed…

— Jane Mayer

“George Mason was the Kochs’ largest libertarian academic project but far from the only one. By 2015, according to an internal list, the Charles…

— Jane Mayer

“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe…

— Mark Lilla

It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible…

— Norman Dodd

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill…

— Tony Campolo

“Legally, however, the Rockefeller Foundation, the granddaddy of all private foundations, was at first limited to promoting only education, science, and religion. Over time,…

— Jane Mayer

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital…

— Richard Cornuelle

We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that,…

— Melinda Gates

“While amassing one of the most lucrative fortunes in the world, the Kochs had also created an ideological assembly line justifying it. Now they…

— Jane Mayer