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The Scaife Foundations refer collectively to three foundations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The three subdivisions are: the Allegheny Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Scaife Family Foundation. A fourth foundation, the Carthage Foundation, was folded into the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 2014. [1]
Sarah Cordelia Mellon Scaife (December 10, 1903 – December 28, 1965) was an American heiress, philanthropist, and Republican Party donor. Her legacy includes the Sarah Scaife Foundation . Early life
Only one other private foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, reported giving more to the groups over the same time period, based on data from hundreds of thousands of public tax filings. The ...
The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1964 to support the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1966, PHLF established the Revolving Fund for Preservation with a $100,000 grant from the Sarah Scaife Foundation.
ALF has received the majority of its funding—$2.53 million—from the Sarah Scaife Foundation that was founded by the late-conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. In addition to ALF, the Sarah Scaife Foundation donates tens of millions of dollars annually to conservative and business-friendly lobbying groups, foundations, and non ...
The son of Richard B. Mellon, nephew of Andrew W. Mellon, and grandson of Thomas Mellon, he and his sister Sarah Mellon Scaife and cousins Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon-Bruce, were heirs to the Mellon fortune, which included major holdings in Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil, and Alcoa.
Scaife gained notoriety for evading weak campaign finance laws to donate US$990,000 to the 1972 re-election campaign of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Scaife was not charged with a crime, but about $45,000 went to a fund linked to the Watergate scandal. Scaife later said he was repulsed by the scandal and refused to speak with Nixon after 1973.
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative Florida group, has played a key role in pushing controversial child labor and SNAP bills.