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Recipients of grants from Sarah Scaife Foundation
Funders and recipients who share official people with Sarah Scaife Foundation
Financials*
| year: | 2005 |
| asts: | $ 289,533,932 |
| rev: | $ 14,998,082 |
| exp: | $ 16,197,272 |
| grnts pd: | $ 13,871,000 |
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* All from IRS 990 PF. Assets = line I; Revenue = line 12; Expenses = line 26; Grants paid = line 25.
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Grants to:
Recipients of Allegheny Foundation grants, in descending order Recipients of Carthage Foundation grants, in descending order Recipients of Scaife Family Foundation grants, in descending order
American Spectator Educational Foundation Recipients of Scaife Foundation grants, aggregated
Profiles:
Allegheny Foundation Scaife Family Foundation The Carthage Foundation
Roles played by Richard Mellon Scaife at his philanthropies and their recipients American Spectator Educational Foundation
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Church & Scaife The Feeding Trough
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FUNDER PROFILE
Sarah Scaife Foundation
ein: 25-1113452
108 institutional roles for $6,117,557
301 Grant Street
One Oxford Centre
Suite 3900
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
and
The Scaife Foundations
This page encompasses all Scaife Family Foundations: the Allegheny, the Sarah Scaife, Carthage, and Scaife Family foundations
From The Feeding Trough:
Financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman of the foundation. In the 1960s, Richard had inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah. Forbes magazine has estimated his personal net worth at $800 million, making him the 138th richest person in the U.S. He controls the Scaife, Carthage and Allegheny foundations. In 1993, Scaife and Carthage reportedly gave more than $17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks. As of December 31, 1992, Scaife assets were $212,232,888 and Carthage assets were $11,937,862.
Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation -- This foundation is financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time, its largest single holding was stock in Gulf Oil Corporation. It was estimated some years ago to be a $200 million foundation. It became active in supporting conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman. Since then, Scaife has been a leading financier of New Right causes. He controls not one -- but three (the Scaife, Carthage, and Allegheny) -- conservative family foundations. The Sarah Scaife Foundation is considered to be one of the top four conservative foundations.
According to a recent article, "In 1993, the Carthage and Sarah Scaife Foundations...gave more than $17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks."
Scaife inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, in the 1960s. A recent issue of Forbes estimated his personal net worth at $800 million, ranking him as the 138th richest man in the United States. According to an article in the June/July 1981 issue of Columbia Journalism Review, Scaife travels in his personal DC-9 jet between his homes in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Pebble Beach, Ca.
All at the same address:
One Oxford Center
301 Grant Street, Suite 3900
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15219-6401
(412) 392-2900
Charlie Deitch
Pittsburgh City Paper
July 27, 2006
Private Dick
Richard Mellon Scaife’s divorce could be one of the “nastiest divorces in American history,” according to New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove. But you’re not likely to hear much about the legal proceedings in the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review — or anywhere else.
108 institutional roles for $6,117,557
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Bruce Wilson
Talk to Action
March 31, 2008
Far Right Political Funder Scaife Enthusiastic About Clinton
As the New York Times and other major papers are reporting today, an op-ed written by Richard Mellon-Scaife in the Sunday edition of Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is raising eyebrows because the considerable enthusiasm Scaife evinced for Democratic Party presidential nomination contender Hillary Clinton.
David Segal
Washington Post
October 22, 2007
Low Road to Splitsville
Right-Wing Publisher's Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details
Looking for a perfect little weekend vacation this fall? Here's a travel tip you don't hear very often: Head to Pittsburgh. Right away.
...only Pittsburgh is the scene of the fabulously tawdry and surpassingly vicious spectacle that is the divorce of Richard Mellon Scaife.
...He's best known for funding efforts to smear then-President Bill Clinton, but more quietly he's given in excess of $300 million to right-leaning activists, watchdogs and think tanks. Atop his list of favorite donees: the family-values-focused Heritage Foundation, which has published papers with titles such as "Restoring a Culture of Marriage."
The culture of his own marriage is apparently past restoring. With the legal fight still in the weigh-in phase, the story of Scaife v. Scaife already includes a dog-snatching, an assault, a night in jail and that divorce court perennial, allegations of adultery.
Oh, and there's the money. Three words, people.
No. Pre. Nup.
Editor & Publisher
September 16, 2007
Scaife's Wife Gets Giant Settlement After Messy Divorce -- Claims Newspaper is 'Hobby'
PITTSBURGH The estranged wife of billionaire and newspaper owner Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh banking heir turned media mogul, was awarded $725,000 a month in temporary support during their acrimonious divorce, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Sunday.
Scaife, 75, and his second wife, Margaret Ritchie Battle Scaife, are battling on several fronts, from how to assess and divide his wealth to custody of a yellow Labrador retriever named Beauregard, the newspaper said.
Eidtor & Publisher
July 16, 2007
Scaife-Owned Newspaper Calls for Iraq Troop Withdrawal -- Questions Bush's 'Mental Stability'
The Pittsburgh newspaper owned by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife yesterday called the Bush administration's plans to stay the course in Iraq a "prescription for American suicide."
David D. Kirkpatrick
NY Times
February 19, 2007
As Clinton Runs, Some Old Foes Stay on Sideline
Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” than Richard Mellon Scaife.
Mr. Scaife...spent more than $2 million [ed. note: more than $6 million] investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder.
But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife’s checkbook is staying in his pocket.
Christopher Ruddy, who once worked full-time for Mr. Scaife investigating the Clintons and now runs a conservative online publication he co-owns with Mr. Scaife, said, “Both of us have had a rethinking.”
“Clinton wasn’t such a bad president,” Mr. Ruddy said. “In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”
Max Blumenthal
July 26, 2004
The Truth Behind The "Shove It" Incident: Colin McNickle is a Scaife Hatchet Man
After watching hours of brain-dead coverage of the Tereza Heinz-Kerry "Shove It" incident, I... have yet to see a single pundit on any network even hypothesize about what might motivate Heinz-Kerry to go out of her way to tell a reporter off...Well, it was not just any reporter who she told to shove it, it was Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of right-wing sugardaddy Richard Mellon-Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review...
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Also see Joe Conason, NY Observer: Scaife's Hired Hack Deserved Teresa's Ire
IRC Right Web profile of Richard Mellon Scaife
Washington Post
May 2, 1999
Richard Mellon Scaife: The Right's Funding Father
Includes a comprehensive database of Scaife grants from 1959 to the present [1999]
Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh billionaire who has financed numerous anti-Clinton activities, helped fund the creation of the modern conservative movement in America
Jonathan Broder and Joe Conasno
Salon.com
June 8, 1998
The American Spectator's funny money
The conservative magazine wanted to bring down President Clinton with its Scaife-funded Arkansas Project. Instead it may have opened itself to charges of tax fraud
Also see:
Read about the "Arkansas Project"
Karen Rothmyer
Salon.com
April 7, 1998
The Man behind the mask
SHY, SECRETIVE AND OF REGAL BEARING, RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE HAS WORKED HARD AND SPENT MILLIONS TO DICTATE THE NATION'S POLITICAL AGENDA
Karen Rothmyer
Columbia Journalism Review
July 1, 1981
Citizen Scaife
Press-shy publisher Richard Mellon Scaife has used his immense wealth to shape today's political climate. A close look at the prime funder of the media-savvy New Right
[Describes Richard Mellon Scaife as "...the prime funder of the media-savvy New Right."]
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Sidebar: Scaife calls reporter "fucking Communist cunt", tells her "Don't look behind you"