- Bullitt Foundation
The Bullitt Foundation is a foundation established in 1952 by Dorothy S. Bullitt, who founded
King Broadcasting Company inSeattle . Its assets in the late 1990s were in excess of US$100M [http://fdncenter.org/pnd/archives/20000530/003416.html] .According to the foundation, " The mission of The Bullitt Foundation is to protect, restore, and maintain the
natural physical environment of thePacific Northwest for present and future generations" by making grants tononprofit organization s.In
2001 , the Bullitt Foundation, which had previously given $10,000 to theDiscovery Institute for transportation purposes, withdrew all funding of the institute. It's director, Denis Hayes, called the institute "the institutional love child of Ayn Rand and Jerry Falwell," and said, "I can think of no circumstances in which the Bullitt Foundation would fund anything at Discovery today."As of late 2005, the board consists of: Harriet Bullitt, Katharine Bullitt, Anne Fennessy, B. Gerald Johnson, Estella Leopold, Hubert Locke, Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno, Maggie Walker, and Jim Youngren.
Links
* [http://www.bullitt.org Bullitt Foundation]
* [http://www.activistcash.com/foundation.cfm/did/63 Information on grant amounts from activistcash.com]
* [http://www.fundersnetwork.org/directory2784/directory_show.htm?doc_id=50262 Profile at fundersnetwork.org]
* [http://www.undueinfluence.com/bullit.htm Critical information from Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise]
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2000/05/22/focus1.html In Depth: Corporate Citizenship: Extended Family (the Bullitts)] (from the Puget Sound Business Journal May 19, 2000 print edition)
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