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The Scaife Family Foundation has funded conservative causes. [9] [10] The Scaife Family Foundation has financially backed Reason magazine [10] and the RealClearInvestigations website. [9] It was among the largest contributors to the climate change denial movement from 2003 to 2010. [2]
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 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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Scaife was responsible for selling over 80 million records as a producer, engineer and singer. His songs have been streamed over 2 billion times. He is also an ACM-, ASCAP-, BMI-, CMA- and Grammy ...