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Think Tank Funding in America
A conversation highlighting QI's new database: ThinkTankFundingTracker.org ([link removed])
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Washington’s foreign policy think tanks are awash in special interest funding. The Quincy Institute recently released a database, found at ThinkTankFundingTracker.org ([link removed]) , which allows users to follow these funding relationships for themselves. According to that database and accompanying policy brief, foreign governments contributed $110 million, the U.S. government donated 1.5 billion, and Pentagon contractors gave $35 million to the top U.S. foreign policy think tanks. The investigation also found that over a third of the top think tanks disclose nothing at all about their donors.

While think tanks present themselves as independent and objective actors, the prevalence of special interest funding raises questions of intellectual freedom, self-censorship, and perspective filtering. What role does think tank funding play in influencing U.S. foreign policy, and what can be done?

February 2025
18
12:00 PM ET
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Estefanía Terán Valdez

Estefanía Terán Valdez is the director of On Think Tanks, where she is responsible for the organization's portfolio of work on evidence production and communication. For over fifteen years, Estefanía has built a robust track record of success in leading and coordinating teams, research, and projects focused on promoting civic engagement and democracy.

Michael Hartmann

Michael E. Hartmann is a co-editor of The Giving Review and a senior fellow at the Capital Research Center (CRC) in Washington, D.C. For almost 20 years, Hartmann served in various roles on the program staff of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, including as its director of research

Benoît Pelopidas

Prof. Benoît Pelopidas (PhD) founded the program Nuclear Knowledges and holds the chair of excellence in security studies at CERI (Sciences Po). He is also an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University and has been a frequent visiting fellow at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security.

Nick Cleveland-Stout (Moderator)

Nick Cleveland-Stout is a junior research fellow in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Previously, he conducted research on U.S.-Brazil relations as a 2023 Fulbright fellow at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, with a particular focus on the influence of American think tanks in Brazil.

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