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Foundation support The Cato Institute has been supported by:<ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_Foundation">Castle Rock Foundation</a> (formerly known as The Coors Foundation) </li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._Koch_Charitable_Foundation">Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation</a> </li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earhart_Foundation">Earhart Foundation</a> </li><li>JM Foundation </li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a>, Inc. </li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_R._Lambe_Charitable_Foundation">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a> </li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a> </li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaife_Foundations">Scaife Foundations</a> (Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage) </li></ul> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cato_Institute&action=edit&section=14">edit</a>] Corporate supportLike many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank">think tanks</a>, Cato receives support from a variety of corporations, but corporations are a relatively minor source of support for the Institute. In fiscal year 2007, for example, corporate donations accounted for only three percent of its budget.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-2006_report-0">[1]</a>According to Cato supporters, the relative paucity of corporate funding has allowed the Institute to strike an independent stance in its policy research. In 2004, the Institute angered the U.S. pharmaceutical industry by publishing a paper arguing in favor of "drug re-importation."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-61">[62]</a> A 2006 study attacked the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act">Digital Millennium Copyright Act</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-62">[63]</a> Cato has published numerous studies criticizing what it calls "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare">corporate welfare</a>", the practice of public officials funneling taxpayer money, usually via targeted budgetary spending, to politically-connected corporate interests.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-63">[64]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-64">[65]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-65">[66]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-66">[67]</a> For example, in 2002, Cato president Ed Crane and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club">Sierra Club</a> executive director Carl Pope co-wrote an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed">op-ed</a> piece in the Washington Post calling for the abandonment of the Republican energy bill, arguing that it had become little more than a gravy train for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> lobbyists.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-67">[68]</a> Again in 2005, Cato scholar Jerry Taylor teamed up with Daniel Becker of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club">Sierra Club</a> to attack the Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005">Energy Bill</a> as a give-away to corporate interests.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-68">[69]</a>Still, some critics have accused Cato of being too tied to corporate funders, especially in the 1990s. Critical sources report that Cato received funding from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Morris">Phillip Morris</a> and other tobacco companies in the 1990s, and that at one point <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> served on the boards of directors of both Cato and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Morris">Phillip Morris</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-69">[70]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Ridder">Knight Ridder</a> newspapers reported that in the late 1990s Cato received financial contributions from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Group">American International Group</a>, "an insurance and financial services company whose business includes managing U.S. retirement plans" as Social Security reform emerged as a more prominent issue. Between 1998 and 2004 the Cato Institute received $90,000 of its funding from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil">ExxonMobil</a> - about a tenth of a percent of the organization's budget over that period.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-70">[71]</a>
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