The Scaife Foundations refer collectively to three

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: the Allegheny Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Scaife Family Foundation. A fourth foundation, the Carthage Foundation, was folded into the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 2014. The Sarah Scaife Foundation and Scaife Family Foundation are major funders of American

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causes.

Allegheny Foundation

Richard Mellon Scaife Richard Mellon Scaife (; July 3, 1932 – July 4, 2014) was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon family, Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review''. In 2005 ...

endowed the foundation and served as its founding chairman. It "concentrates its giving in the Southwestern Pennsylvania area and confines most of its grant awards to programs for historic preservation, civic development and education." When Scaife died in 2014, he left assets worth $364 million to the Allegheny Foundation. In 2015, the Allegheny Foundation distributed over $25 million to 81 different organizations. The foundation's largest donations went to Point Park University for the Pittsburgh Playhouse and the Center for Media Innovation. The Boys & Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania, Saint Vincent College, the Extra Mile Education Foundation, Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the Ligonier Valley YMCA all received gifts of $1 million or more.

Sarah Scaife Foundation

The Sarah Scaife Foundation does not award

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to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards politically conservative causes focused on

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at a national and international level. The organizations it has supported include the George C. Marshall Institute,

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, the

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, and

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Scaife Family Foundation

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'' magazine and the RealClearInvestigations website. According to Colin Schultz, writing for

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in 2013, Scaife Foundations was among the largest contributors to the "climate change counter-movement" from 2003 to 2010. The Scaife Family Foundation is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife's daughter Jennie; who, according to 2014 article in ''

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'', shifted over time from funding conservative groups to becoming "almost exclusively a supporter of animal welfare and other humanitarian issues." The family foundation has donated significant sums to the

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References

External links

Scaife Foundations website

Allengheny Foundation grant recipients from 1985-2006

Carthage Foundation grant recipients from 1985-2003

Sarah Scaife Foundation grant recipients from 1985-2003

Scaife Family Foundation grant recipients from 1985-2001
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