Date | Amount | Purpose | Recipient | Funder |
6-9-2005 | 50,000 | To support the "Implementing Social Security and Medicare Reform" project | Texas A&M University | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
5-10-2005 | -375 | To support research on medicare and social security reform | Texas A&M University | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
5-9-2005 | 50,000 | To support the state Social Security Initiative | National Center for Policy Analysis | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
4-9-2005 | 50,000 | To support the "Implementing Social Security and Medicare Reform" project | Texas A&M University | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
3-9-2005 | 50,000 | To support the state Social Security Initiative | National Center for Policy Analysis | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-30-2004 | 50,000 | Government Spending on the Elderly Dimitri Papadimitriou will commission research and convene a conference to examine how the aging of the U.S. population will affect the future of government spending and economic growth. He will commission papers on issues such as the macroeconomic impact of increased spending on the elderly and the effects of the Social Security program on labor force participation. The papers will be published in an edited volume. |
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, The | Smith Richardson Foundation |
6-9-2004 | 50,000 | To support research on medicare and social security reform | Texas A&M University | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
5-9-2004 | 50,000 | To support a public education program on Social Security and Medicare reform | National Center for Policy Analysis | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
4-12-2004 | 50,000 | To support research on medicare and social security reform | Texas A&M University | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
6-9-2003 | 37,500 | To support a public education program on Social Security and Medicare reform | National Center for Policy Analysis | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
4-10-2003 | 37,500 | To support a public education program on Social Security and Medicare reform | National Center for Policy Analysis | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-2002 | 40,000 | CSE Freedom Works Foundation To support the Plaintiff's Bar Project and "Own Your Future: A New Deal for Social Security" |
Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation | JM Foundation |
5-9-2002 | 50,000 | To support a research project on Social Security at the Private Enterprise Research Center | Texas A&M University | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-2001 | 100,000 | Social Security Reform | National Center for Policy Analysis | Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation |
12-31-2000 | 15,000 | During a twelve-month period beginning March 2001 to support the Private Enterprise Research Center's Social Security and Medicare Reform research, Thomas Saving, Director | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Earhart Foundation |
12-31-1999 | 200,000 | Project-Social Security | National Center for Policy Analysis | Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation |
12-31-1998 | 100,000 | To support the Project on Social Security Privatization | Cato Institute | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1998 | 20,000 | To promote Medicare and Social Security reform. | Third Millennium: Advocates for the Future, Inc. | JM Foundation |
12-31-1998 | 203,000 | Social Security and the American Family Eugene Steuerle will direct a project to examine how changes in the make up of American families have affected Social Security. He will commission a series of papers and convene two conferences in orderto address a range of key issues such as how benefits are shared by spouses and the benefits given to divorced and widowed spouses. |
Urban Institute, The | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1998 | 104,329 | Personalizing Social Security: Management Issues for Individual Accounts Estelle James and James Smalhout will research and write reports on management issues raised by Social Security reform proposals that include provisions for individual accounts. They will examine the mutual fund industry and the experiences of foreign countries in order to estimate the administrative costs of an individual account system. They will also study how to regulate an annuity market that would enable individualaccount holders to draw down their assets. |
Hudson Institute, Inc. | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-9-1998 | 50,000 | To support the Project on Social Security Privatization | Cato Institute | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
10-8-1998 | 50,000 | To support the Project on Social Security Privatization | Cato Institute | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1997 | 88,000 | Simulating the Economic Effects of Privatizing Social Security in Light of the Demographic Transition This grant supports the creation of a simulation model that will enable policy makers to measure the long-term impact that changes in demography will have on Social Security. Lawrence Kotlikoff will enhance an existing simulation model so that it can extend the projections currently used by the Social Security Administration beyond a 75-year time horizon and simulate the impact of how proposals to reform Social Security would be affected by a wide range of economic conditions. |
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1997 | 49,750 | Social Security: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past? A Symposium for Historians and Policy Makers This grant supports a conference on the history of Social Security. Richard Thau will commission papers that will foster a better understanding among policy makers, policy analysts, and the general public of the history of Social Security and past efforts to reform the system. |
Third Millennium: Advocates for the Future, Inc. | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1997 | 2,000 | John Attarian During 1998 to continue to prepare one or more journal article(s) and/or a book on the topic, "Social Security's Immorality: Roots of Crisis." |
Mackinac Center for Public Policy | Earhart Foundation |
12-31-1997 | 161,479 | Personalizing Social Security: Management Issues for Individual Accounts This grant supports research and analysis on management issues raised by Social Security reform proposals that include provisions for individual accounts. Estelle James and James Smalhout will examine the mutual fund industry and the experiences of foreign countries in order to estimate the administrative cost of an indivdual account system. They will also study how an annuity market that would enable individual account holders to draw down their assets should be regulated. The results will be published in a series of reports. |
Hudson Institute, Inc. | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1997 | 15,000 | For educational projects on social security reform | Retirement Security Alliance | JM Foundation |
12-31-1997 | 9,000 | Attiat F. Ott Department of Economics During the second semester of academic year 1997-1998 to prepare one or more journal articles on the United States Social Security System. |
Clark University | Earhart Foundation |
12-31-1997 | 8,000 | John Attarian During 1998 to continue to prepare one or more journal article(s) and/or a book on the topic, "Social Security's Immorality: Roots of Crisis." |
Mackinac Center for Public Policy | Earhart Foundation |
12-31-1996 | 10,000 | Steven M. Teles Gordon Public Policy Center During the period January-June 1997 to continue preparation of one or more journal article(s) and/or a book on the topic, "Partial Social Security Privatization in Britain: Its Political Precoand Social/Political Consequences". |
Brandeis University | Earhart Foundation |
12-31-1996 | 25,000 | A project to publicize Sam Beard's book, Restoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution | National Development Council | John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1996 | 10,000 | To support public education on Social Security reform | Third Millennium: Advocates for the Future, Inc. | JM Foundation |
12-31-1996 | 150,000 | Social Security Reform Evaluation Project This grant supports the development of an economic model that will enable policy analysts and members of the policy making community to compare competing Social Security reform proposals. The model will incorporate assumptions about how the proposed reforms will affect economic growth rates and measure the degree of risk involved. The model and a series of papers will be presented to a conference for policy makers. |
Employee Benefit Research Institute | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1996 | 75,000 | Projects on Social Security and fiscal policy | Cato Institute | John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1995 | 75,000 | Projects on restoring economic liberty and Social Security privatization | Cato Institute | John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1995 | 50,000 | Public forums and conferences on Social Security reform | Institute for Contemporary Studies | John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1995 | 108,500 | Privatization of Social Security This grant supports a project that examines the future of Social Security and develops possible reform proposals. The project will organize two research conferences and commission papers on a wide variety of topics related to Social Security privatization, including the experiences of foreign countries and the challenges of implementing similar policy reforms in the United States. The papers will be published as a series of NBER Working Papers. |
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1995 | 44,800 | Local Solutions to a National Program: How State and Municipal Pension Plan Systems Offer Prototypes for Social Security Reform This grant supports a research monograph on state and municipal pension plans in order to enhance the quality of debate over Social Security reform. The project will analyze the performance of seven state or municipal employee pension funds whose participants were allowed to direct their Social Security contributions into pension funds that invested in private debt and equity markets. |
Third Millennium: Advocates for the Future, Inc. | Smith Richardson Foundation |
12-31-1995 | 50,000 | SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM PROGRAM | American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | Scaife Family Foundation |
1-19-1995 | 28,704 | To support a research project on social security | University of Wisconsin, Board of Regents of | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1994 | 40,500 | The publication of a book on Social Security reform by Samuel S. Beard | Institute for Contemporary Studies | John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1994 | 25,000 | For the Project on Social Security Privatization | Cato Institute | JM Foundation |
12-31-1994 | 25,000 | SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM PROGRAM | American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | Scaife Family Foundation |
7-28-1994 | 28,704 | To support a research project on social security | University of Wisconsin, Board of Regents of | The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. |
12-31-1985 | 25,000 | Social Security study | Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation | Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation |
12-31-1985 | 25,000 | Social Security study | Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation | David H. Koch Charitable Foundation |