The Earhart Foundation was an American conservative private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship since its founding in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart . Richard Ware served as the Foundation's longtime president.
17-471: The Philanthropy Roundtable said of the Earhart Foundation in 2004, "For 75 years, the Earhart Foundation has epitomized achievement in the humanities and social sciences. ... Harry B. Earhart started the foundation in 1929 with the fortune he made with White Star Oil Company." Among his foundation's early beneficiaries was well-known economist and philosopher, Friedrich von Hayek . Hayek penned
34-546: Is a nonprofit organization that advises conservative philanthropists and advocates for philanthropic freedom and donor privacy. The Roundtable was founded in 1987 as a project of the now-defunct Institute For Educational Affairs . It was founded as a conservative alternative to the Council on Foundations , a nonprofit membership association of donors. Membership in the organization was free "to interested grant makers", and 140 foundations, charities and nonprofits joined in
51-610: The Almanac "shatters myths about the stinginess of the wealthy and bleeding-heart liberals’ monopoly on compassion." Booklist , published by the American Library Association, reviewed the Almanac this way: "This comprehensive, current, accurate, well-organized reference on private giving in the U.S. contains sections on our greatest givers, past and present, and major achievements from 1636 to 2015. The volume's very reasonable cost (for 1,300+ pages) enhances
68-462: The Office of National Drug Control Policy . Adam Meyerson served as the organization's president from 2001 to 2020. In June 2020, he was replaced by Elise Westhoff, who was named president and chief executive officer. In October 2023, Christie Herrera was promoted to president and CEO. Almanac of American Philanthropy The Almanac of American Philanthropy is a reference book published by
85-530: The 1980s the organisation funded the conservative American Enterprise Institute . It also funded the now defunct George C. Marshall Institute . Since 1995, the Earhart Foundation has been engaged in the pursuit of publishing the collected works of Eric Voegelin . Between 1995 and 2002, the Earhart Foundation issued at least twelve grants totaling at least $ 115,000 "for (a) research assistance and (b) general operating support to continue preparation for publication of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. " In 2000,
102-468: The Earhart Foundation published a guide to the H. B. Earhart Fellowship Program listing the Foundation's trustees, officers, and members, as well as fellowship sponsors and grantees during the program's existence from 1952 to 2015. Also in 2015, The Governing board decided to sunset the Earhart Foundation, and funds were dispersed by 2016. Philanthropy Roundtable The Philanthropy Roundtable
119-634: The Earhart Foundation reported total assets of $ 95 million (2000 IRS Form 990). Funding from the Earhart Foundation has also helped promoters of Neo-Confederacy : between 1995 and 2005 the foundation awarded $ 10,000 to Clyde Wilson , $ 8,000 to Thomas Woods , $ 14,000 to Mark Royden Winchell , director of the League of the South , and $ 20,000 and $ 98,000, respectively, to League of the South–affiliated scholars Thomas DiLorenzo and James McClellan. In 2015,
136-645: The Roundtable published the Almanac of American Philanthropy , a reference book that summarizes the history, purposes, effects, and modern direction of private giving. In 2005, Philanthropy Roundtable created the Alliance For Charitable Reform (ACR), which opposes legislation that would create accreditation requirements for grant-making foundations, establish a five-year Internal Revenue Service review of tax-exempt status, or restrict
153-485: The Roundtable's first year. In 1991, Philanthropy Roundtable became an independent entity with its own board of directors and staff, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana . The Philanthropy Roundtable is a 501(c)(3) organization . It has been described as conservative and non-partisan. The organization has a bimonthly newsletter, Philanthropy , which evolved into a quarterly magazine in 2011. In 2016,
170-491: The ability of donors to establish family foundations. In 2007, the William E. Simon Foundation named the Roundtable the administrator of the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. Recipients of the prize since the Roundtable's administration of it include Bernie Marcus , Eli Broad , Charles Koch , Roger Hertog , Philip Anschutz and his wife Nancy, S. Truett Cathy , and Frank Hanna III . Kimberly Dennis
187-548: The achievements of American philanthropy, profiles influential donors, presents statistics and polling results, lists books and recommended readings in the field, provides a selection of philanthropy quotations, and summarizes modern approaches to charitable giving in the United States. Three thousand copies of the Almanac were distributed to academic and public libraries and 13,000 copies were sent to donors and U.S. foundations worth at least $ 50 million. Hard copies of
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#1732780174590204-479: The book are available for sale on Amazon for $ 25, but its content is also available for free online. The Almanac of American Philanthropy chronicles 380 years of private giving in America. Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe called the Almanac "the first definitive work on the history, variety, and impact of private giving in the United States." Its sections include: The Orange County Register wrote that
221-622: The broadly read book, The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty and taught at the London School of Economics . Nine winners of the Nobel Prize in economics came from the ranks of Earhart Foundation Fellows. Other Nobel-winning economists who benefited from Earhart funding include Milton Friedman , Gary Becker , James M. Buchanan , Ronald Coase , Robert Lucas , Daniel McFadden , Vernon L. Smith , and George Stigler . The Foundation sought to identify talent that reflects
238-626: The mission of the Foundation: to support free-market scholars through a network of "Earhart professors" across the United States: We find promising young men and women that we think would be ideal, not only from an intellectual but also from a character point of view, to be teachers and academic leaders in the future. And when we so identify them, we recommend them to the Earhart Foundation. They provide grants, and we continue to mentor these students as they go through graduate school. In
255-517: The nonprofit Philanthropy Roundtable in 2016 to capture the history, purpose, effects, and modern direction of private philanthropy in the United States. Philanthropy in the U.S. is a major part of the economy with $ 360 billion given every year and 8 billion hours of time volunteered. Philanthropy is a major cultural force in the U.S., handling many social responsibilities, thanks to individual giving levels that are two to twenty times higher than in other comparable nations. The Almanac records
272-686: The reference value.... Recommended." Karl Zinsmeister created the Almanac of American Philanthropy for the Philanthropy Roundtable . He has authored eleven books, including works on charter schools and public policy philanthropy, embedded reporting on the Iraq War , and a Marvel Comics nonfiction graphic novel. He has written for publications including the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times , and
289-464: Was the organization's first executive director. She served as executive director from 1991 through 1996. John P. Walters assumed administrative leadership of the organization in the new role of president in 1997 when the organization moved its headquarters to Washington, D.C. Walters remained in that position until resigning in October 2001 to accept an appointment by George W. Bush as director of
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