Who Funds You?

Who Funds You? was a British volunteer-run project that sought to rate and promote transparency of funding sources of think tanks.[1][2][3] The project scored think tanks according to four criteria, namely whether the organisation discloses its income, whether it publishes financial details online, whether individual donors and the amounts of each donation are published, and whether corporate donors are named and the amounts of each donation published.[4] The project's first report into think tank transparency was published in June 2012.[2][5] According to Martin Bright of The Spectator, the "exercise seems to demonstrate that left-leaning think tanks are more transparent than right-wing ones".[4] The last report was published in October 2019 and the website is no longer being regularly updated, although people can still report if any organisation's transparency has improved since the final report.[3]

Who Funds You?
MottoPromoting open, transparent think tanks
Location
  • United Kingdom
Websitewhofundsyou.org

References
  1. Lipton, Eric (6 May 2014). "Major Research Groups Are Given Low Marks on Disclosing Donors". New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  2. "It doesn't matter who funds think tanks, but if it did, Left-wing ones would do particularly badly". Daily Telegraph. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. "About". Who Funds You?. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  4. Bright, Martin (21 June 2012). "Who funds think tanks?". Spectator. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  5. McClenaghan, Maeve (12 July 2012). "Finance Lobby: Big banks and thinktanks". Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
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