Claremont Institute

Leadership & Staff

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Tom Klingenstein Investment Counselor/Founder, Managing Director, and Director at Cohen, Klingenstein & Marks Incorporated.

• Chairman

Ryan Williams Claremont Institute president

• president

Dr. Larry Arnn President of Hillsdale College

• Vice Chairman

Brooke Goldstein Human rights attorney

• Lincoln Fellow

Scott W. Johnson Minneapolis attorney

• fellow

Bill Bennett United States Secretary of Education (1985 - 1988); first Drug Czar

• Fellow

David Strom Public policy expert, educator, speechwriter and media commentator.

• fellow

John H Hinderaker Lawyer, Minneapolis law firm Faegre & Benson; an author of the Power Line weblog: Chair, Minnesota Republican Party (1999-2005)

• fellow

Mary Vought Longtime adviser and friend of Mike Pence, having once served as his spokeswoman

• Position

Scott Yenor Professor of Political Science, Boise State University in Idaho.

• Position

Board Members

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Thomas G. West Hillsdale College Professor

• Board Member

Robert Curry Encinitas, CA

• Board Member

Roy Crummer Beverly Hills, CA

• Board Member

Michael Pack Head of U.S. Agency for Global Media; conservative American film-maker, former president of Claremont Institute

• President

Robert Nelson GE

• Board Member

Larry Mattson Mattson and Sherrod

• Board Member

John Marini University of Nevada at Reno

• Board Member

James E. Higgins New Vernon Capital

• Board Member

Joel H. Farkas JF Companies

• Board Member

Edward J. Erler Professor, Cal State

• Board Member

Donors

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Dick And Betsy Devos Foundation

• Donation/Grant · 640,000 USD ('20)

Sarah Scaife Foundation Conservative funding juggernaut

• donation · 450,000 USD ('20) [+1]

• Grant · 325,000 USD ('09)

DonorsTrust “Dark Money ATM of the Conservative Movement”

• Donation/Grant · 100,000 USD ('22)

Constitutional Defense Fund A "conservative litigation funder."

• Donation/Grant · 100,000 USD ('22)

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a conservative foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report

• donation · 100,000 USD ('21) [+1]

• donation · 100,000 USD ('20)

Aequus Foundation

• Donation/Grant · 47,500 USD ('09→'11)

Alliance Defending Freedom Legal ministry bringing together Christian lawyers

• Grant · 24,581 USD ('18→'19) [+2]

• Grant · 10,000 USD ('15→'16)

• Grant · 5,419 USD ('19→'20)

The Deramus Foundation

• Donation/Grant

JW AND IDA M JAMESON FOUNDATION

• Donation/Grant

Koret Foundation Private foundation based in San Francisco, CA.

• Donation/Grant

Donations

Society for American Civic Renewal Far-right network of secretive, invitation-only fraternal lodges

• Donation/Grant · 26,248 USD ('20)

Parents

Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence A Dept of Claremont Institute, a conservative think-tank & nonprofit organization; it is is also the public interest law arm of the Claremont Institute

• Parent Org

Memberships

Alliance Defending Freedom Legal ministry bringing together Christian lawyers

• Allied Legal Organization

State Policy Network right-wing think tank network

• associate member

Miscellaneous Relationships

Harry V Jaffa American historian, conservative political philosopher

• Affiliation