The foundation was begun in 1953 and was not intended to last in perpetuity. Following the death in 2000 of the Foundation President chosen by Olin, the Trustees have devised a plan to phase out the foundation in the next several years.
According to the Nation, the foundation's 1988 annual report shows that $55 million in grants were distributed, primarily to underwrite university programs "intended to strengthen the economic, political and cultural institutions upon which...private enterprise is based." [emphasis added]
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In 2001, the Foundation expended $20,482,961 to fund right-wing think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International St...
Founded on December 29, 1953, the Olin Foundation made its first contribution to Cornell (Olin’s alma mater) in 1954 in the amount of $18,000. Twenty-three years after John Olin’s death, the Olin Fou...
The Olin family's petrochemical interests are represented on the Consumer Alert Board by Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and his policy decisions are in t...
In 2002, Judicial Watch received $1.1 million from The Carthage Foundation and a further $400,000 from The Sarah Scaife Foundation. The year before the Scaife Foundation had given $1.35 million and C...
The vfluence client list is the Frankenfood defence team with petrochemical pharmers and pseudo science, right wing oil money think tanks its so retro, a la tobacco. Light up!
The Smith Richardson Foundation—together with the Olin and Scaifefoundations—was a key supporter of the American Enterprise Institute when AEI emerged as a central player during Ronald Reagan’s firs...
The Institute received $5,577,803 in 77 separate grants from only five foundations between 1985 and 2001- Earhart Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, Inc., Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Sca...
Funding provided by the heirs to America's oil fortunes, Funding - The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, The Carthage Found...
According to Media Transparency, the ELC have receined funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation.
In 1931, Western merged with the famed Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In 1944, the various Olin companies were organized under a new corporate parent, Olin Industries, Inc
In Saltville it produced chlorine and caustic soda, producing a considerable amount of methyl mercury—by the company's own estimates, up to 100 pounds per day—into the soils and the North fork of the...
Due to the closure of the John M. Olin Foundation, the Olin Institute will offer no further Olin Fellowships in National Security. We are hopeful that there will be a successor to the Olin Institute ...
