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 Recipients of Sarah Scaife Foundation grants, in descending order
Grants to:
 Recipients of Allegheny Foundation grants, in descending order
Recipients of Carthage Foundation grants, in descending order
Recipients of Scaife Family Foundation grants, in descending order
 American Spectator Educational Foundation
Recipients of Scaife Foundation grants, aggregated
Profiles:
Allegheny Foundation
Scaife Family Foundation
The Carthage Foundation
American Spectator Educational Foundation
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 Church & Scaife
The Feeding Trough
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The "Arkansas Project'
External Links
Sarah Scaife Foundation at GuideStar.org Scaife Foundations' website Scaife In The News Scaiforama!
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Sarah Scaife Foundation
and The Scaife Foundations
This page encompasses all Scaife Family Foundations: the Allegheny, the Sarah Scaife, Carthage, and Scaife Family foundationsFinanced by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman of the foundation. In the 1960s, Richard had inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah. Forbes magazine has estimated his personal net worth at $800 million, making him the 138th richest person in the U.S. He controls the Scaife, Carthage and Allegheny foundations. In 1993, Scaife and Carthage reportedly gave more than $17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks. As of December 31, 1992, Scaife assets were $212,232,888 and Carthage assets were $11,937,862. Financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman of the foundation. In the 1960s, Richard had inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah. Forbes magazine has estimated his personal net worth at $800 million, making him the 138th richest person in the U.S. He controls the Scaife, Carthage and Allegheny foundations. In 1993, Scaife and Carthage reportedly gave more than $17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks. As of December 31, 1992, Scaife assets were $212,232,888 and Carthage assets were $11,937,862.
Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation -- This foundation is financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time, its largest single holding was stock in Gulf Oil Corporation. It was estimated some years ago to be a $200 million foundation. It became active in supporting conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman. Since then, Scaife has been a leading financier of New Right causes. He controls not one -- but three (the Scaife, Carthage, and Allegheny) -- conservative family foundations. The Sarah Scaife Foundation is considered to be one of the top four conservative foundations. According to a recent article, "In 1993, the Carthage and Sarah Scaife Foundations...gave more than $17.6 million to 150 conservative think tanks." Scaife inherited an estimated $200 million from his mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, in the 1960s. A recent issue of Forbes estimated his personal net worth at $800 million, ranking him as the 138th richest man in the United States. According to an article in the June/July 1981 issue of Columbia Journalism Review, Scaife travels in his personal DC-9 jet between his homes in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Pebble Beach, Ca. All at the same address:One Oxford Center
301 Grant Street, Suite 3900
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15219-6401
(412) 392-2900
Charlie Deitch
Pittsburgh City Paper
July 26, 2006 Richard Mellon Scaife’s divorce could be one of the “nastiest divorces in American history,” according to New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove. But you’re not likely to hear much about the legal proceedings in the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review — or anywhere else.
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David D. Kirkpatrick
NY Times
February 18, 2007 Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” than Richard Mellon Scaife.
Mr. Scaife...spent more than $2 million [ed. note: more than $6 million] investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder.
But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife’s checkbook is staying in his pocket.
Christopher Ruddy, who once worked full-time for Mr. Scaife investigating the Clintons and now runs a conservative online publication he co-owns with Mr. Scaife, said, “Both of us have had a rethinking.”
“Clinton wasn’t such a bad president,” Mr. Ruddy said. “In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”
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Max Blumenthal
July 25, 2004 After watching hours of brain-dead coverage of the Tereza Heinz-Kerry "Shove It" incident, I... have yet to see a single pundit on any network even hypothesize about what might motivate Heinz-Kerry to go out of her way to tell a reporter off...Well, it was not just any reporter who she told to shove it, it was Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of right-wing sugardaddy Richard Mellon-Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review...
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Also see Joe Conason, NY Observer: Scaife's Hired Hack Deserved Teresa's Ire
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Washington Post
May 1, 1999 Includes a comprehensive database of Scaife grants from 1959 to the present [1999] Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh billionaire who has financed numerous anti-Clinton activities, helped fund the creation of the modern conservative movement in America
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Jonathan Broder and Joe Conasno
Salon.com
June 7, 1998 The conservative magazine wanted to bring down President Clinton with its Scaife-funded Arkansas Project. Instead it may have opened itself to charges of tax fraud
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Read about the "Arkansas Project"
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Karen Rothmyer
Salon.com
April 6, 1998 SHY, SECRETIVE AND OF REGAL BEARING, RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE HAS WORKED HARD AND SPENT MILLIONS TO DICTATE THE NATION'S POLITICAL AGENDA
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Karen Rothmyer
Columbia Journalism Review
June 30, 1981 Press-shy publisher Richard Mellon Scaife has used his immense wealth to shape today's political climate. A close look at the prime funder of the media-savvy New Right [Describes Richard Mellon Scaife as "...the prime funder of the media-savvy New Right."]
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Sidebar: Scaife calls reporter "fucking Communist cunt", tells her "Don't look behind you"
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