Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

The Manhattan Institute (MI) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank founded in 1978 by William J. Casey, who later became President Ronald Reagan's CIA director. It is an associate member of the State Policy Network.

It is actually the direct successor to the International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS) which was founded by the english chicken-king, Sir Antony Fisher, in 1977. He had previously set up the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) in London, and before moving to the USA he had become a principle advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The incorporation documents for ICEPS were signed by the prominent attorney and Wall Street speculator, William J Casey, who also served as the first chairman. Before going on to take over as director of the CIA, be also drew up the founding documents for both the National Review and the National Strategic Information Center where he became director of the NSIC also. [1]

According to the Manhattan Institute's own puff-piece, it is "focused on promoting free-market principles" and has a mission to "develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility."

"The Manhattan Institute concerns itself with such things as 'welfare reform' (dismantling social programs), 'faith-based initiatives' (blurring the distinction between church and state), and 'education reform' (destroying public education)," Kurt Nimmo wrote October 10, 2002, in CounterPunch. It was also recognised as leading the Republican/corporate efforts to destroy Ralph Nader and his supporters, in the 1990s.

News and Controversies

Opposition to CRT and the LGBTQ+ Community

Multiple Manhattan Institute fellows have published articles condemning Critical Race Theory and gender ideology. In an article called "Failure Factory", a case study of Buffalo Public Schools, senior fellow Christopher Rufo writes, "Antiracist ideologues claim to have the solution to America's deepest problems, but in institutions such as Buffalo Public Schools, they have failed to ensure that students reach minimum levels of literacy. If they cannot teach the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, how can we trust them to reshape society?" The Manhattan Institute also published an article that cites Rufo as the motivation behind the movement against CRT, and says about many of the underlying truths supporting CRT's sociological validity that "whatever one thinks of these ideas, they are hardly 'settled facts' on the same epistemic plane as heliocentrism, natural selection or even climate change. To the contrary, they are moral-ideological just-so theory of group differences, an all-encompassing worldview akin to a secular religion, whose claims can't be measured, tested or falsified."

MIPR Called Out for Blocking Action on Climate Change

In July of 2016, nineteen U.S. Senators delivered a series of speeches denouncing climate change denial from 32 organizations with links to fossil-fuel interests, including the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy. Sen. Whitehouse (RI-D), who led the effort to expose "the web of denial" said in his remarks on the floor that the purpose was to,

"shine a little light on the web of climate denial and spotlight the bad actors in the web, who are polluting our American discourse with phony climate denial. This web of denial, formed over decades, has been built and provisioned by the deep-pocketed Koch brothers, by ExxonMobil, by Peabody coal, and by other fossil fuel interests. It is a grim shadow over our democracy in that it includes an electioneering effort that spends hundreds of millions of dollars in a single election cycle and threatens any Republican who steps up to address the global threat of climate change. . . . [I]t is long past time we shed some light on the perpetrators of this web of denial and expose their filthy grip on our political process. It is a disgrace, and our grandchildren will look back at this as a dirty time in America’s political history because of their work.”

Cutting Ties over Pension Plans

Cliff Asness, Henry Kravis, and Thomas McWilliams said they would cut ties with the Manhattan Institute in 2013 over the organization's calls to abolish defined benefit public pension plans. According to the New York Post, "The moves come after the American Federation of Teachers in April (2013) called out 33 top money managers for backing efforts to eliminate public pensions -- while soliciting their investment dollars."

Asness, who is the founder of AQR, said he would not renew his term on Manhattan's board of trustees when it expires in 2014, and McWilliams, who is a managing partner at Court Square, resigned from the Institute's board.

Meanwhile, one hedge-fund manager and Institute board member, Dan Loeb, refused to back down or give in to calls from the AFT to resolve his apparent conflict of interest -- that is, his position at Third Point, which wants access to pension fund investments, and his position at Manhattan, which supports privatization of pension funds and government services.

Immigration: Covering All the Bases

In 2007, the New York Times reported, "In the think-tank world, a leading advocate of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants is Tamar Jacoby..., an expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute. One of the most implacable voices against any such 'amnesty' is Heather Mac Donald -- also of the Manhattan Institute."

While many of the Institute's fellows do not hold an anti-immigration stance, they do oppose "government programs intended to accommodate immigrant concerns, such as bi-lingual education."

"The organization has attacked . . . immigrant support programs as obstacles to full social integration and to the benefits of the market system." However, the Institute is in favor of reforming the U.S. immigration system and has written of the economic benefits of migration.

Ties to the Koch Brothers

The Manhattan Institute has received funding from the Koch brothers. The Claude R. Lambe Foundation, one of the Koch Family Foundations, reported giving $2,075,000 to the Manhattan Institute between 2001 and 2012, the last year for which data is available. The Charles G. Koch Foundation gave $100,000 to the Institute in 2012.

Koch Wiki

Charles Koch is the right-wing billionaire owner of Koch Industries. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include: Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, Stand Together, Koch Family Foundations, Koch Universities, and I360.

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council

The Manhattan Institute's Senior Fellow and Director of its Center for Medical Progress, Paul Howard, spoke at the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Conference in a Workshop titled "Rationing By Any Other Name: Medicare's Independent Payment Advisory Board." He co-led the panel with the Pacific Research Institute's Director of Health Care Studies, John Graham (the Pacific Research Institute is also a State Policy Network member).

About ALEC

ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our ExposedbyCMD.org site.

Financiers of Neo-conservatism

The "financing of neo-conservatism doesn't come from D.C.", Mark Gerson is quoted as saying in the April 27, 2003, New York Observer. "Instead, said Mr. Gerson, it comes from New York moneymen like Bruce Kovner, chairman of the Caxton Corporation, and Roger Hertog, the vice chairman of Alliance Capital Management. Last year, both financiers helped fund a new newspaper, The New York Sun, now fighting its anti-liberal battle with its New York Times –counterprogrammed slogan, 'A Different Point of View.' Both Mr. Kovner and Mr. Hertog also chipped in to join neoliberal Martin Peretz as co-owners of The New Republic. Mr. Kovner and Mr. Hertog, as enlightened neoconservative businessmen-intellectuals, are also on the board [of trustees] of the Manhattan Institute, where Mr. Gerson and William Kristol are also trustees, as well as the Washington, D.C.–based American Enterprise Institute."

War on Terrorism: "Axis of Evil"

In 2001, David Frum left the Manhattan Institute "to join the Bush administration as a speechwriter. It was there that he coined the term "axis of evil" to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea. This became the signature phrase of President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union speech and shorthand for Bush's war on terrorism."

Ties to Big Tobacco

MANHATTAN DOCUMENTS
Documents from the tobacco archives, Also documents on junk-science Manhattan (Doc Index)

Tobacco industry documents reveal relationships between the Manhattan Institute and tobacco companies. The Institute sought funding from tobacco companies, including:

• August 1986 funding by Brown & Williamson,
• August 1987-88 RJ Reynolds gave them $10,000 as an ANNUAL contribution [2]
• October 1990, Lorillard, Inc. budgeted a $4,000 contribution to the Manhattan Institute
• 1995 Philip Morris budgeted $25,000 for the Institute in 1995.
• Oct 1996 Lorillard gave the same amount in 1996.
• August 1998 R.J. Reynolds.

In August 1992 The Manhattan Institute ran a conference on "The Litigation Explosion" in support of a book being produced by their Senior Fellow, Walter K Olson. [3] for the tobacco industry. [4] They have already held a workshop on product liability in Chicago. [5]

A 1997 R.J. Reynolds memo reveals RJR's intent to use the Manhattan Institute as a third party to help the company reduce the public's perception of danger from exposure to secondhand smoke:

"Devise ways to educate the public about epidemiology and put risk in perspective. For example, work with Steven J. Milloy, Michael Fumento, CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute and others to put together a 1/2-hour or 1-hour TV show explaining epi[demiology] and risk. Create an epi/risk website to educate the general public, maybe working with the Harvard School of Public Health. Do the same for journalists."

Junk Science

Peter W Huber one of the key 'scholars' at the Manhattan Institute wrote "Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom" which was part of Philip Morris's on-going program to attack some aspects of health and environmental science in general. This was in support of their program centered on two of APCO]'s creations, The Advancement for Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) now run by Steve Milloy and Science & Environmental Policy Project run by S. Fred Singer and his wife Candace Crandall

A Manhattan Institute Conference held in Washington DC in June 1995 brought together many of the tobacco industry lobbyists who were promoting the junk-science message. [6] [7]

History

The Manhattan Institute was founded by Antony Fisher with William J Casey who later became Ronald Reagan's campaign director and head of the CIA. Jane Mayer documents this in her book Dark Money when she writes, "Fisher would go on to found another 150 or so free-market think tanks around the world, including the Manhattan Institute in New York, to which both Scaife and other conservative philanthropists would become major contributors. The Sarah Scaife Foundation in fact for many years was the Manhattan Institute's single largest contributor. The donations paid off, from Scaife's viewpoint, when they helped launch the careers of the conservative social critic Murray and the supply-side economics guru George Gilder, whose arguments against welfare programs and taxes had huge impacts on ordinary Americans."

The Institute describes its policy agenda over its 25-year history as having spanned "taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education, and many other topics. We have won new respect for market-oriented policies and helped make reform a reality."

In its publication Buying a Movement, People for the American Way describes the Manhattan Institute's agenda as advocating for "privatization of sanitation services and infrastructure maintenance, deregulation in the area of environmental and consumer protection, school vouchers and cuts in governmental spending on social welfare programs; it is a preferred source of information'" for then-New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

The organization describes its communication strategy as being based around the strengths of its "senior fellows": "Their provocative books, reviews, interviews, speeches, articles, and op-ed pieces have been the main vehicle for communicating our message."

"Books are central to our approach. We make every effort to ensure that our authors are published by respected trade publishers and that their books receive as much review attention and publicity as possible. Nothing allows us to make a sustained, comprehensive argument more effectively," the website states.

Charles Murray -- an author whom CounterPunch calls "a far right ideologue who wrote The Bell Curve in 1984, a book that essentially argues black people are genetically and intellectually inferior to white people" -- was based at the Manhattan Institute while writing the book Losing Ground.

Funding

The Manhattan Institute is not required to disclose its funders. Its major foundation funders, however, can be found through a search of IRS filings. Here are the know funders of the Manhattan Institute:

• Acrocorinth: $300,000 (2019)
• Allison Maher Stern Foundation: $8,000 (2020)
• Ambrose Monell Foundation: $100,000 (2020)
• American Endowment Foundation: $15,000 (2019)
• Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation: $15,000 (2019)
• Andrew and Irma Hilton Foundation: $1,903 (2014-2016)
• Andrew Cader Foundation: $100,000 (2015)
• Annenberg Foundation: $25,000 (2018)
• Armstrong Foundation: $75,000 (2015-2019)
• Arthur L Loeb Foundation: $10,000 (2018)
• Arthur S and Marilyn Penn Charitable Trust: $1,000 (2018-2019)
• Association of Charles Evans Housing Foundation: $20,000 (2018-2020)
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation: $10,000 (2016)
• Ayco Charitable Foundation: $136,000 (2019)
• Bader Family Foundation: $460,000 (2014-2019)
• Bailey Family Foundation: $6,350 (2013-2020)
• Bank of America Charitable Foundation: $500 (2018)
• Barnes Family Foundation: $7,500 (2013-2020)
• Belz Foundation: $800 (2020)
• Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable Foundation: $1,000 (2019)
• Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation: $1,446,963 (2017)
• Bill and Susan Oberndorf Foundation: $25,000 (2020)
• Bradley Impact Fund: $181,500 (2014-2019)
• Brewster West Foundation: $75,000 (2014-2017)
• Brigham Family Foundation: $45,000 (2016-2019)
• Brook Fund: $3,000 (2020)
• Buhl Foundation: $20,000 (2014-2017)
• Burch Family Foundation: $20,000 (2017-2019)
• California Community Foundation: $100,000 (2017-2019)
• Campbell Family Foundation: $1,000 (2016)
• Carl C Icahn Foundation: $55,000 (2014-2018)
• Carnegie Corporation of New York: $100,000 (2014-2019)
• Challenge Foundation: $100,000 (2018-2019)
• Charles Koch Foundation: $788,093 (2013-2019)
• Charles Koch Institute: $66,720 (2014-2018)
• Chase Foundation of Virginia: $45,000 (2013-2019)
• Colegato Foundation Trust: $500 (2018)
• Columbus Jewish Foundation: $489,740 (2012-2019)
• Community Foundation of Greater Memphis: $2,000 (2015)
• Conard-Davis Family Foundation: $25,000 (2016)
• Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust: $50,000 (2013-2017)
• Creigh Family Foundation: $6,000 (2015-2019)
• Critelli Family Foundation: $8,000 (2013-2020)
• Dallas Foundation: $10,000 (2019)
• Dalton Foundation: $75,000 (2020)
• Daniel and Joanna S Rose Fund: $1,000 (2018)
• Dave H and Reba Williams Foundation: $100,000 (2013-2017)
• David Family Foundation: $110,000 (2013-2020)
• Dean and Cam Williams Foundation: $1,000 (2015)
• Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation: $187,000 (2013-2017)
• Doug and Jayne Orr Family Foundation: $2,000 (2019)
• Dunn Family Foundation: $105,000 (2013-2019)
• Dunn Foundation: $125,000 (2019)
• Dupage Community Foundation: $92,000 (2015-2018)
• Ehlers Family Foundation: $6,000 (2015-2016)
• EL Craig Foundation: $50,000 (2020)
• Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Charitable Foundation: $55,000 (2018-2019)
• EMC Insurance Foundation: $12,500 (2020)
• Eveillard Family Charitable Trust: $6,954 (2013-2018)
• Evelyn Olin Charitable Trust: $30,000 (2019)
• Everylife Foundation for Rare Diseases: $20,000 (2015)
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: $170,000 (2015-2017)
• Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund: $1,217,280 (2016-2019)
• Fleur Harlan Foundation: $130,000 (2014-2017)
• FM Kirby Foundation: $75,000 (2020)
• Ford Foundation: $100,000 (2016-2017)
• Foundation for Individual Liberty: $25,000 (2016-2019)
• Frankel Family Charitable Trust: $6,000 (2017-2019)
• Fred Maytag Family Foundation: $400,000 (2015-2020)
• Gale Foundation: $50,000 (2019)
• Garvey Kansas Foundation: $2,500 (2013-2019)
• George and Karen James Family Foundation: $1,500 (2013-2016)
• George E Coleman Jr Foundation: $1,000 (2014)
• George Edward Durell Foundation: $10,000 (2015)
• George M Yeager Foundation: $1,000,000 (2013-2020)
• Gleason Family Founation: $250,000 (2016-2019)
• Goergen Foundation: $5,000 (2019)
• Goldhill Family Foundation: $10,000 (2020)
• Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund: $26,000 (2019)
• Goldstein Family Foundation: $500 (2013)
• Gollust Foundation: $2,000 (2016)
• Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation: $1,000 (2018)
• Goyanes Family Foundation: $50,000 (2020)
• Greater Horizons: $20,000 (2015-2017)
• Greater Houston Community Foundation: $27,000 (2017)
• Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $18,750 (2015)
• Hamlin Family Foundation: $10,750 (2014-2019)
• Hickory Foundation: $70,000 (2014-2020)
• Hilibrand Foundation: $20,000 (2019-2020)
• Hintz Family Fund: $206,000 (2016-2019)
• Holman Foundation: $105,000 (2014-2019)
• Hubbard Family Foundation: $5,000 (2018)
• Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation: $60,000 (2014-2019)
• J Aron Charitable Foundation: $10,000 (2015-2020)
• James and Virginia Welch Foundation: $1,150 (2013-2017)
• Jaye Penny Gould Foundation: $5,000 (2016)
• Jeffrey Foundation: $5,000 (2019)
• Jewish Communal Fund: $441,700 (2014-2020)
• Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago: $40,000 (2014-2017)
• John and Barbara Vogelstein Foundation: $25,000 (2019)
• John and Christine Fitzgibbons Foundation: $10,000 (2014)
• John S and James L Knight Foundation: $301,441 (2017-2019)
• John Templeton Foundation: $1,300,000 (2013-2018)
• John William Pope Foundation: $50,000 (2019)
• JP Morgan Chase Foundation: $970 (2016-2017)
• Karp Foundation: $20,000 (2016-2019)
• Kingsberg Foundation: $4,000 (2014-2018)
• Kleinschmidt Family Foundation: $294,374 (2013-2020)
• Kovner Foundation: $50,000 (2018)
• Lawrence N and Alice L Friedland Charitable Foundation: $500 (2018)
• Lazy L Foundation: $26,000 (2016-2018)
• Leah and Alain Lebec Foundation: $5,000 (2014-2018)
• Leon Levy Foundation: $2,500 (2018)
• LFF Foundation: $250 (2020)
• Linville Family Foundation: $40,000 (2015-2019)
• MacDougal Family Foundation: $10,000 (2014-2020)
• Mailman Foundation: $10,000 (2019)
• Malcolm Fraser Foundation: $5,000 (2019)
• Malkin Fund: $2,000 (2016-2017)
• Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation: $265,000 (2014-2019)
• Marin Community Foundation: $135,000 (2014-2019)
• Martin J Gross Family Foundation: $149,225
• McNeill Charitable Foundation: $1,510 (2014-2016)
• Merow Foundation: $500 (2017)
• Mill Park Foundation: $50,000 (2019)
• Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust: $6,500 (2016-2017)
• Morse Charitable Foundation: $14,000 (2017-2019)
• Mutual of America Foundation: $625 (2013-2019)
• National Christian Charitable Foundation: $58,300 (2015-2020)
• National Philanthropic Trust: $1,740,000 (2014-2019)
• Neal and Marlene Goldman Foundation: $55,000 (2014-2020)
• Newman Family Foundation: $20,000 (2019)
• Norma Pace Foundation: $20,000 (2018-2019)
• Ohnell Family Foundation: $616,000 (2013-2019)
• Old Stones Foundation: $40,000 (2015-2017)
• Paul and Patricia Gioia Foundation: $4,500 (2013-2018)
• Paul E Singer Foundation: $3,500,000 (2013-2018)
• Paula Del Nunzio Balser and Paul F Balser Sr Family Foundation: $2,000 (2017-2018)
• Paulson Family Foundation: $250,000 (2014-2019)
• Peckham Family Foundation: $40,000 (2013-2019)
• Peek Family Foundation: $2,000 (2017)
• Peter and Ann Lambertus Family Foundation: $15,000 (2019)
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America: $480,000 (2014-2019)
• Pharos Foundation: $25,000 (2020)
• Pierre F and Enid Goodrich Foundation: $140,000 (2013-2020)
• Priscilla and Richard J Schmeelk Foundation: $72,500 (2013-2020)
• Richard A Barone Charitable Foundation: $1,000 (2016)
• Richard and Mary Horvitz Foundation: $3,575 (2013-2020)
• Richard E Fox Charitable Foundation: $5,000 (2018)
• Richard Grinold Fund: $90,000 (2017-2019)
• Richardson Foundation: $29,865 (2015-2020)
• Robert and Janice McNair Foundation: $75,000 (2015-2018)
• Robertson-Finley Foundation: $4,000 (2018)
• Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation: $500 (2020)
• Rosenkranz Foundation: $200,000 (2016-2018)
• S&P Global Foundation: $250 (2019)
• Samuel J and Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust: $100 (2015)
• Schulman Foundation: $26,000 (2014-2020)
• Schwab Charitable Fund: $69,950 (2019)
• Sherrill Family Foundation: $50,000 (2018-2019)
• Shuchman Lesser Foundation: $25,000 (2019)
• Shuchman Philanthropies: $10,000 (2018)
• Sidney A Swensrud Foundation: $100,000 (2013-2018)
• Snider Foundation: $20,000 (2019)
• Starr Foundation: $50,000 (2019)
• Story Garshina Foundation: $320,000 (2015-2020)
• Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr Foundation: $5,000 (2015-2019)
• Sutton Family Foundation: $5,000 (2020)
• Thomas D Klingenstein Fund: $37,976 (2013-2019)
• Thomas W Smith Foundation: $3,353,452 (2016-2020)
• Urstadt Conservation Foundation: $3,000 (2015)
• US Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $25,000 (2017)
• VBS Foundation: $20,000 (2013-2019)
• Veltri Family Foundation Trust: $20,000 (2016-2019)
• Wiegers Family Foundation: $10,000 (2020)
• William and Karen Tell Foundation: $1,000 (2020)
• William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation: $7,000 (2013-2019)
• William Stamps Farish Fund: $45,000 (2019)
• Winiarski Family Foundation: $30,000 (2018-2020)
• Woodford Foundation for Limited Government: $94,300 (2013-2020)
• WR Berkley Corporation Charitable Foundation: $87,500 (2013-2020)
• Zegarac-Pollock Family Foundation: $525,000 (2013-2019)
• Zeron Foundation: $1,500 (2020)

Earlier Funding Information

Between 2001 and 2010, the Manhattan Institute received more than $3 million from the conservative Bradley Foundation.

Between 1985 and 2005, the Institute received $20,579,883 (unadjusted for inflation) in a total of 294 grants from a small group of right-wing foundations.

The following organizations had given donations to the Manhattan Institute as of 2005:

• Armstrong Foundation
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Brady Education Foundation, Inc.
• Castle Rock Foundation
• Earhart Foundation
• F.M. Kirby Foundation
• Gilder Foundation
• Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation
• Hickory Foundation
• Jaquelin Hume Foundation
• John Templeton Foundation
• John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
• JM Foundation
• Koch Family Foundations (Claude R. Lambe Foundation)
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• Randolph Foundation
• Roe Foundation
• Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation
• Scaife Foundations (Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
• Searle Freedom Trust
• Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
• Smith Richardson Foundation
• Walton Family Foundation
• William E. Simon Foundation
• William H. Donner Foundation

Core Financials

2020

• Total Revenue: $16,694,868
• Total Expenses: $15,701,917
• Net Assets: $21,125,765

2019

• Total Revenue: $18,531,014
• Total Expenses: $17,381,125
• Net Assets: $18,642,638

2018

• Total Revenue: $15,565,468
• Total Expenses: $20,159,557
• Net Assets: $17,565,230

2017

• Total Revenue: $20,277,506
• Total Expenses: $19,691,658
• Net Assets: $21,907,626

2016

• Total Revenue: $2,711,476
• Total Expenses: $2,475,962
• Net Assets: $2,316,057

2015

• Total Revenue: $4,180,433
• Total Expenses: $4,357,518
• Net Assets: $2,020,543

2014

• Total Revenue: $17,408,881
• Total Expenses: $15,638,756
• Net Assets: $19,337,202

2013

• Total Revenue: $17,210,753
• Total Expenses: $13,949,343
• Net Assets: $18,671,181

2012

• Total Revenue: $13,559,374
• Total Expenses: $14,284,045
• Net Assets: $15,317,383

2011

• Total Revenue: $14,873,971
• Total Expenses: $13,417,313
• Net Assets: $14,754,647

Other Affiliations

• Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future (ITFIAF)
• State Policy Network

Personnel

Board of Trustees

As of November 2022:

• Paul E. Singer, Chairman of the Board, Elliott Management Corporation
• Michael J. Fedak, Vice Chairman
• Roger Hertog, Chairman Emeritus
• Reihan Salam, President
• Andrew Cader, New York City
• Ann J. Charters, New York City
• Anthony P. Coles, DLA Piper
• Kathy Crow, Dallas, TX
• Ravenel Curry, Eagle Capital Management, LLC
• Timothy G. Dalton, Jr., Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co.
• Kenneth B. Gilman, New York City
• Harvey Golub, Chairman, Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC
• Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, C.V. STARR & Co., Inc.
• Fleur Harlan, New York City
• Michael A. Kaufman, MAK Capital
• Roger Kimball, The New Criterion
• Jay Lefkowitz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• Jay H. Newman, Elliott Management Corporation
• Rodney Nichols, New York City
• Nick Ohnell, Ohnell Family Foundation
• John Paulson, Paulson & Co.
• Russel Pennoyer, Brittany Capital Group, Inc.
• Robert Rosenkranz, Chairman, Delphi Financial Group, Inc.
• Nathan E. Saint-Amand, M.D., New York City
• Thomas W. Smith, Prescott Investors
• Warren Stephens, Stephens, Inc.
• Bruce G. Wilcox, Chairman, Management Committee, Cumberland Associates, LLC
• Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, The Partnership for New York City

Former Trustees

• Richard Gilder, (Chairman emeritus), Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. LLC
• Roger Hertog, (Chairman emeritus), New York City
• Dietrich Weismann, (Chairman emeritus), Weismann Associates, LLC
• Clifford S. Asness, AQR Capital Management, LLC
• Brian Miller
• Charles H. Brunie, (Chairman emeritus), Brunie Associates
• Lawrence J. Mone, President
• Sean M. Fieler, Analyst, Equinox Management Partners, L.P.
• Kenneth M. Garschina, Principal, Mason Capital Management
• George Gilder, Program director at one time
• William Hammett, President
• William Kristol, Editor & Founder, The Weekly Standard
• Daniel Loeb, Third Point, LLC
• David Malpass, Encima Global, LLC
• Betsy McCaughey (Elizabeth) Senior Fellow in Judicial Studies
• Rebekah Mercer
• Donald G. Tober, Chairman of the Board, Sugar Foods Corporation

Senior Staff

Key staff as of November 2023:

• Reihan Salam, President
• Ilana Golant, Executive Vice President
• Brian Anderson, Editor, City Journal
• Benjamin Birney, Vice President, Operations/In-House Counsel
• Brandon Fuller, Vice President, Research & Policy
• Michele Jacob, Vice President, Strategy & Communications

Former Senior Staff

• Michael Allegretti, Vice President of Programs
• Michael Barreiro, Vice President of Operations
• James Copland, Director, Center for Legal Policy
• Leigh Harrington, Vice President, Communications & Marketing
• Molly M. Harsh, Director of Programs, Adam Smith Society
• Timothy Hoefer, Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy
• Paul Howard, Director, Center for Medical Progress
• Howard Husock, Vice President, Research & Publications
• Vanessa Mendoza, Executive Vice President
• Lawrence J. Mone, President
• Jessica Perry, Director of Development
• Judyth Pendell Exec Director, 1999
• Troy Senik, Vice President, Policy & Programs
• Donna Thompson Special Projects director, 1999

Policy Experts

As of November 2022:

• Brian C. Anderson, Editor, City Journal
• Michael Knox Beran, Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Charles W. Calomiris, Book Fellow
• Wai Wah Chin, Adjunct Fellow
• James R. Copland, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Legal Policy
• Theodore Dalrymple, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Daniel Di Martino, Graduate Fellow
• Daniel DiSalvo, Senior Fellow
• Ray Domanico, Senior Fellow and Director, Education Policy
• Stephen D. Eide, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Richard A. Epstein, Visiting Scholar
• Roland G. Fryer, Jr., John A. Paulson Fellow
• Brandon Fuller, Vice President, Research & Policy
• Nicole Stelle Garnett, Senior Fellow
• Nicole Gelinas, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Edward Glaeser, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Zach Goldberg, Paulson Policy Analyst
• Carolyn D. Gorman, Adjunct Fellow
• Arpit Gupta, Adjunct Fellow
• Victor Davis Hanson, Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Michael Hartney, Adjunct Fellow
• Gail Heriot, Book Fellow; Professor, University of San Diego School of Law; Member, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
• Stephanie Hessler, Adjunct Fellow
• Thomas Hogan, Adjunct Fellow
• Kay S. Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, Fellow
• Eric Kaufmann, Adjunct Fellow
• John Ketcham, Fellow
• Eric Kober, Senior Fellow
• Charles Fain Lehman, Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Jonathan A. Lesser, Adjunct Fellow and President, Continental Economics
• Glenn C. Loury, John A. Paulson Fellow
• Randall Lutter, Senior Fellow
• Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Steven Malanga, George M. Yeager Fellow and Senior Editor, City Journal
• Rafael A. Mangual, Nick Ohnell Fellow; Head of Research, Policing & Public Safety; Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Jim Manzi, Senior Fellow
• Jordan McGillis, Paulson Policy Analyst
• Edmund J. McMahon, Adjunct Fellow
• James B. Meigs, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Hannah E. Meyers, Fellow and Director, Policing & Public Safety
• Judith Miller, Adjunct Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Mark P. Mills, Senior Fellow
• Renu Mukherjee, Paulson Policy Analyst
• James Piereson, Senior Fellow
• Chris Pope, Senior Fellow
• Kathleen Porter-Magee, Adjunct Fellow and Superintendent, Partnership Schools
• Brian Riedl, Senior Fellow
• Jason L. Riley, Senior Fellow
• Christopher F. Rufo, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Reihan Salam, President
• Peter D. Salins, Senior Fellow
• Leor Sapir, Fellow
• Allison Schrager, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Dorothy Moses Schulz, Adjunct Fellow
• Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director, Constitutional Studies
• Fred Siegel, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Andy Smarick, Senior Fellow
• John Tierney, Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Robert VerBruggen, Fellow
• Noah Williams, Adjunct Fellow
• Marcus A. Winters, Senior Fellow
• Diane Yap, Economics Policy Analyst

See also: Manhattan Institute senior scholars

Former Policy Experts

• Rick Baker, Adjunct Fellow, Center for State and Local Leadership (St. Petersburg, Florida)
• Claire Berlinski, Contributing Editor, City Journal (Istanbul, Turkey)
• Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor, City Journal
• Lester Brickman, Visiting Scholar, Center for Legal Policy (New York City)
• Robert Bryce, Senior Fellow, Center for Energy Policy and the Environment
• Oren Cass, Senior Fellow
• Dr. Tom Coburn, Advisor, Project FDA
• Richard C. Dreyfuss, Senior Fellow, Center for State and Local Leadership (Pennsylvania)
• Max Eden, Senior Fellow
• Yevgeniy Feyman, Adjunct Fellow
• Ted Frank, Adjunct Fellow
• Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow and Director, Economics21
• Richard Greenwald, Adjunct Fellow, Center for State and Local Leadership (Newark, NJ)
• Isaac Gorodetski, Director, State and Local Policy
• Paul Howard, Senior Fellow and Director, Health Policy
• Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow
• Howard Husock, Vice President, Research & Publications and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Stefan Kanfer, Contributing Editor, City Journal
• George L. Kelling, Senior Fellow
• Andrew Klavan, Contributing Editor, City Journal (Los Angeles, CA)
• Joel Kotkin, Contributing Editor, City Journal (California)
• John Leo, Senior Fellow, Center for the American University (New York City)
• Herbert London, Senior Fellow, Center for the American University (New York City)
• FJ Macchiarola
• Myron Magnet, Editor-at-large, City Journal - became Newt Gingrich adviser
• Josh B. McGee, Senior Fellow
• John H. McWhorter, Contributing Editor, City Journal (New York City)
• Jared Meyer, Senior Fellow
• Lawrence J. Mone, President
• Charles Murray
• Walter Olson, Legal critic
• Avik Roy, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute (New York City)
• Aaron M. Renn, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Charles Upton Sahm, Director, Education Policy
• Harry Stein, Contributing Editor, City Journal (New York City)
• William J. Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal (New York City)
• Guy Sorman, Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Sol Stern, Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Jacob Vigdor, Adjunct Fellow
• Andrew C. von Eschenbach, Advisor & Former Chairman, Project FDA
• Adam White, Adjunct Fellow and Contributing Editor, City Journal
• Scott Winship, Walter B. Wriston FellowLeadership (New York City)
• Luigi Zingales, Contributing Editor, City Journal (Chicago, IL)

Contact Information

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• http://www.overlawyered.com/
• http://www.pointoflaw.com/
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Resources and Articles

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IRS Filings

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External Articles

2013

• Matt Taibbi, "Looting the Pension Funds," Rolling Stone, September 26, 2013.

2007

• Stephanie Mencimer, "Another Reporter Falls for the Manhattan Institute," The Tortellini, February 6, 2007.
• Darvin Dowdy, "Tamar Jacoby - At It Again...," Street Level Blog/Townhall.com, May 17, 2007.
• "Welcome to the PR Machine," Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look Blogspot, June 7, 2007.
• Frank R. Lichtenberg, "Yes, New Drugs Save Lives," Washington Post, July 11, 2007.
• Patrick Sullivan, "Bloomberg Record on Education Attacked by Manhattan Institute Scholar," NYC Public School Parents Blogspot, July 24, 2007.
• Jay Matthews, "English, Math Time Up in 'No Child' Era. 44% of Schools Polled Reduce Other Topics," Washington Post, July 25, 2007.
• Lawrence Mone, Letter to the Editor: "A Think Tank's Scholarship," Washington Post, August 8, 2007.

2006

• News Release: Vice President's Remarks on Iraq and the War on Terror at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, The Grand Hyatt New York, New York, New York, Office of the Vice President, January 19, 2006.
• Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, "The Boys Left Behind. The gender graduation gap," National Review Online, April 19, 2006.
• "Met police chief defiant over job," BBC Online, June 21, 2006.
• Michael Barbaro and Stephanie Strom, "Wal-Mart Finds an Ally in Conservatives," New York Times, September 8, 2006. re WalMart Stores
• Jim Horn, "Manhattan Institute Bogus Research on Florida Retention Policy," Schools Matter Blogspot, October 12, 2006.
• Stephanie Mencimer, "Illinois Takes Another Beating," The Tortellini, October 18, 2006.

2005

• Heather Mac Donald, "Too Nice for Our Own Good," Wall Street Journal (Manhattan Institute), January 6, 2005.
• Heather Mac Donald, "Heather Mac Donald responds to Marty Lederman on Abu Ghraib and U.S. interrogation policies," City Journal, January 13, 2005.
• Alex Chadwick, "Defending Bush's Treatment of Enemy Combatants," NPR, January 24, 2005.
• Howard Kurtz, "Writer Backing Bush Plan Had Gotten Federal Contract," Washington Post, January 26, 2005.
• Eric Boehlert, "Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till. Michael McManus, conservative author of the syndicated column 'Ethics & Religion,' received $10,000 to promote a marriage initiative," Salon, January 27, 2005.
• "McManus and Gallagher have more in common than Bush administration contracts," Media Matters for America, January 28, 2005.
• "BG Medicine Participates as a Member of the '21st Century FDA Task Force'," BG Medicine, March 7, 2005.
• Philip Weiss, "George Soros’s Right-Wing Twin," New York Magazine, August 1, 2005: "Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center’s crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion—and the most powerful New Yorker you’ve never heard of."
• Press Release: "Earned Legalization and Increased Border Security is Key to Immigration Reform According to Republican Voters: New Poll," Manhattan Institute, October 17, 2005.
• Craig Nelson, "MI: turning corporate cash into influence. Phony Poll-oney: The latest attempt to mislead from Ed Goeas and that clever Tamar Jacoby," projectusa, October 18, 2005.
• Nicholas Confessore, "Giuliani Guide Is Bloomberg Gadfly," New York Times, October 25, 2005.

2004

• Tim Wise, "Of Broken Clocks and Conservatives," ZMag, March 2, 2004.
• Joel Stashenko, "Think tank: Reform doomed without teacher contract changes," Associated Press (Boston Globe), July 13, 2004.
• "The City That Conservatives Built," Gotham Gazette Campaign and Convention Blog, August 24, 2004.
• Paul Labarique, "The Manhattan Institute, Neoconservatives’s Lab," Voltairenet.org, September 15, 2004.
• George F. Will, "Can We Make Iraq Democratic?" City Journal, Winter 2004.

2003

• Ralph Z. Hallow, "Not All Conservatives on Board on Iraq," The Washington Times (GlobalExchange.org), February 12, 2003. Note: MI had not voiced dissent.

2002

• Condoleezza Rice, Wriston Lecture: "A Balance of Power That Favors Freedom," Manhattan Institute, October 1, 2002.

2001

• Julia Vitullo-Martin, "Comissioner Bernard Kerik and the three priorities," Gotham Gazette, March 1, 2001.

2000

• Robert Lederman, "Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute, and Eugenics: The Ugly Truth Behind 'Quality of Life'," The Konformist, March 29, 2000.
• Norman Solomon, "Launching Conservative Books Into the Media Stratosphere," AlterNet, April 26, 2000.
• Robert Lederman, "GW Bush, Jesus and the Manhattan Institute," Hartford Web Publishing, August 8, 2000.
• Robert Lederman, "Chase Manhattan Banks' Right-wing Relationship," The Konformist, September 12, 2000.

1990s

• Tom Redburn, "Conservative Thinkers Are Insiders; It's Now Their City Hall, and Manhattan Institute Is Uneasy," New York Times, December 31, 1993.
• Norman Solomon, " The Manhattan Institute: Launch Pad For Conservative Authors," Institute for Public Accuracy, March 1, 1998.

External Resources

• Manhattan Institute, Neocon Europe.
• Manhattan Institute in the dKosopedia.
• Factsheet: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Manhattan Institute, ExxonSecrets.org.
• Manhattan Institute, Illuminati News. Includes numerous weblinks.
• Manhattan Institue, Namebase.org.
• Profile: Manhattan Institute, NNDB.com.
• Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, Political Friendster.
• Profile: Manhattan Institute, RightWeb (last updated November 29, 2006).
• Manhattan Institute in the Wikipedia.
• "Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Manhattan Institute," World-Information.org.
• Charity Navigator Rating: Manhattan Institute, CharityNavigator.org.

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