SEARCHING

About the Data

Find out where the grant data comes from, and what years and philanthropies are included.

How to Search

Information, tips and tricks for making your search more successful

Search

Grants – search grants based on their stated purpose
Recipients – search all grants to a particular recipient
Funders – search for organizations or individuals that are funding grants
People – search for people who benefit from grant funds
Website – search the website for specific text
Advanced search – specifiy multiple criteria
All-in-one search – search the website and the database at the same time for specific text

MEDIA TRANSPARENCY

Sign-up for our newsletter

Register

Only registered visitors are allowed to email content or post comments

Support Media Transparency

Your help is essential to this website

AROUND THE WEB

American Prospect
August 9, 2005
Chris Mooney

Inferior Design

In late September, a contemporary Scopes trial gets under way in Pennsylvania. For the right, it’s been 39 years in the making

On September 26, an event that the national media will surely depict as a new Scopes trial is scheduled to begin. Hearings will commence in a First Amendment lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Dover, Pennsylvania, school district over its decision to introduce “Intelligent Design,” or ID, into its biology curriculum...

That movement’s [ID] home base is Seattle’s Discovery Institute, whose attempt to lead a speciﬁcally intellectual attack on evolution -- one centered at a think tank funded by wealthy extreme conservatives and abetted by sympathetic Republican politicians -- epitomizes how today’s political right has developed a powerful infrastructure for battling against scientiﬁc conclusions that anger core constituencies in industry and on the Christian right.

Also see:

Discovery Institute

Read the story >