Charity | Purpose | Assets (year) | Income (year) |
Advocates for Self-Government | educates the public on libertarian ideas | $20,545 (2000) | $386,458 (2000) |
Alchemind Society | works to protect the right to freedom of the mind | $47,913 (2000) | $97,893 (2000) |
American Civil Rights Institute | anti-affirmative action | $415,180 (2000) |
$810,091 (2000) |
American Liberty Foundation | educational advertisements | $65,528 (2001) |
$336,063 (2001) |
Americans for Free Choice in Medicine | free market health care | $25,908 (1999) | $69,177 (1999) |
Ayn Rand Institute | objectivism | $1,368,241 (2000) |
$2,813,480 (2000) |
Bastiat Institute | libertarian think tank | $27,217 (2001) |
$4,731 (2001) |
Cascade Policy Institute | Oregon free market think tank | $144,043 (2000) |
$584,524 (2000) |
Cato Institute | libertarian think tank | $21,801,767 (2002) | $16,975,933 (2002) |
Center for Independent Thought | libertarian publishing | $956,265 (2000) | $1,479,284 (2000) |
Center for Individual Rights | public interest law firm | $1,766,086 (2000) | $1,368,501 (2000) |
Center for Libertarian Studies | libertarian theory | $39,032 (2001) | $183,109 (2001) |
Common Sense for Drug Policy Foundation | drug law reform | $187,289 (1998) |
$685,353 (1998) |
Critical Review Foundation, Inc. | publishes Critical Review | $64,334 (2000) | $169,596 (2000) |
Defenders of Property Rights | public interest law firm | $183,183 (2000) |
$333,233 (2000) |
Drcnet Foundation, Inc. | drug law reform | $157,263 (2000) | $196,578 (2000) |
The Drug Policy Foundation | drug law reform | $2,151,921 (1999) |
$3,056,480 (1999) |
Extropy Institute | libertarian-leaning futurism | $6,937 (2000) | $39,917 (2000) |
Families Against Mandatory Minimums | sentencing reform | $272,197 (2000) | $648,264 (2000) |
Fully Informed Jury Assocation | jury rights | $52,679 (2001) | $118,017 (2001) |
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Foundation | anti-civil asset forfeiture |
N/A
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N/A
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Foundation for Economic Education | pro-freedom research organization | $4,704,722 (2000) |
$1,790,214 (2000) |
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education | academic freedom | $303,626 (2000) |
$482,837 (2000) |
Foundation for Rational Economics and Education | educates public | $375,055 (2000) |
-$884,441 (2000) |
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment | free market environmentalism | $995,388 (2001) |
$739,579 (2001) |
Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education | sound money | $30,107 (2000) | $34,970 (2000) |
Future of Freedom Foundation | libertarian op-eds and writing | $249,385 (2000) | $390,821 (2000) |
Gun Owners Foundation | gun rights | $382,714 (2000) | $404,571 (2000) |
Independence Institute | Colorodo conservative/libertarian think tank | $130,338 (2000) | $425,676 (2000) |
Independent Institute | California based libertarian think tank | $2,391,194 (2000) |
$1,905,361 (2000) |
Institute for Civil Society | defends civil society | $105,261 (2000) | $154,957 (2000) |
Institute for Health Freedom | free market medicine | $284,877 (2000) | $332,519 (2000) |
Institute for Humane Studies | college scholarships | $2,190,255 (2000) | $2,496,403 (2000) |
Institute for Justice | public interest law firm | $6,434,936 (2001) | $5,423,723 (2001) |
International Society for Individual Liberty | international libertarianism | $51,722 (2000) |
$148,607 (2000) |
Libertarian Futurist Society | promotes libertarian science fiction | N/A |
N/A |
Libertarian Nation Foundation | libertarian think tank | N/A | N/A |
Liberty Foundation | publishes Liberty magazine | $1,029,029 (2000) | $401,099 (2000) |
Ludwig Von Mises Institute | austrian economics | $19,026,709 (2000) |
$5,911,089 (2000) |
Marijuana Policy Project Foundation | drug law reform | $37,102 (1999) |
$260,418 (1999) |
Media Awareness Project, Inc. | drug law reform | $19,107 (2000) |
$98,798 (2000) |
Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation | pro-school vouchers | $5,025,610 (2000) |
$3,907,260 (2000) |
NORML Foundation | marijuana law reform | $906,257 (2001) |
$188,469 (2001) |
National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation | anti-compulsory unionism | $10,534,739 (2000) |
$8,446,212 (2000) |
NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund | gun rights | $2,032,674 (1999) | $431,355 (1999) |
The Objectivist Center | objectivism | $222,980 (2000) |
$1,042,441 (2000) |
Political Economy Research Center | free market environmentalism | $2,266,369 (2000) |
$1,811,499 (2000) |
Reason Foundation | privatization | $848,358 (2001) |
$4,912,664 (2001) |
Separation of School and State Alliance | school reform | $28,462 (2002) |
$291,306 (2002) |
Thoreau Institute | environment | $3,394 (2000) |
$55,060 (2000) |
Women's Freedom Network | women's rights | $130,185 (2002) | $47,583 (2002) |
N/A = Not Available
The total assets and yearly income for all the charities whose information is available is $61,076,315 and $37,443,746, respectively. To put that into perspective, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has assets and incomes of $107,352,753 and $38,171,956 (both 2000 figures), respectively and the ACLU, a liberal litigator, has $117,023,659 and $44,597,661 in assets and incomes (both 2000 figures), respectively.