Major Research Groups Are Given Low Marks on Disclosing Donors

A New York Times article discusses research on donor disclosures by Transparify, a survey funded by the Open Society Foundations.

The conservative-leaning Hoover Institution, based in California, and the liberal Center for American Progress, based in Washington, are polar opposites in terms of political leanings. But according to a first-of-its-kind survey of the world’s most prominent research organizations, the institutions share an important trait: a relatively poor record of disclosing the sources of their financing.

The two organizations, along with other major players in Washington such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Hudson Institute, each earned just one star out of a possible five in the survey, to be made public on Wednesday, an advance copy of which was provided to The New York Times….