Pacific Research Institute

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Pacific Research Institute
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
AbbreviationPRI
Formation1979(46 years ago) (1979)
Founders
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Legal status 501(c)(3)
Purposepublic policy analysis
Headquarters
Location
President
Sally C. Pipes [b]
Chairman
Clark S. Judge [c]
Revenue$5,623,603 [2] (2020)
Expenses$4,448,062 [2] (2020)
Website pacificresearch.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. [3] PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher and a San Francisco businessman James North. [4] [5] The organization is headquartered in Pasadena, California, with an additional office in Sacramento. [1]

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Policy areas

The organization is active in the policy areas of education, economics, health care, the environment, and water supply. [6] [7] It operates the Center for California's Future, which has a goal of "reinvigorating California's entrepreneurial, self-reliant traditions" and the Laffer Center, which is "focused on educating people on free-markets and supply-side economics." [8]

From 1996 through 2009, the organization published an annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators , which tracked environmental trends worldwide. PRI started the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy. [9]

In 2022, Pipes opposed federal efforts to cap copayments at $35 for insulin, and PRI opposed plans by California to back generic manufacturing of the drug. [10]

PRI is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025, [11] a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election. [12]

Staff

Sally C. Pipes has been president of the institute since 1991. [13] [14] She writes a regular column for Forbes.com, focusing on health care in the United States. [15] In 2008 she founded the Benjamin Rush Institute as a conservative association for medical students with 20 chapters at medical schools across America. [14] She is originally from Canada and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. [14] She opposes single-payer health care systems. [10]

The current chairman of the board of trustees Clark S. Judge (since 2005) is also a cofounder of the White House Writers Group. [16]

Finances

PRI's total revenues in 2020 were $5.6 million, according to ProPublica 's Nonprofit Explorer database. [2] The Lilly Endowment, connected to Eli Lilly and Company, is a donor, contributing $175,000 a year in grants to PRI since 2015, according to The Intercept . [10]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ IRS Form-990 yr2020 shows corporate address in Pasadena
  2. ↑ Pipes became president in 1991
  3. ↑ Judge became chairman in 2005

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References

  1. 1 2 "Contact". PRI. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Nonprofit Explorer - Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy". ProPublica. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Hanner, Ken (9 January 2011). "Conservative Spotlight: Pacific Research Institute". Human Events. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Butler, Eamonn (28 June 2015). "Antony Fisher, herald of freedom". Adam Smith Institute. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "History". PRI. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  6. ↑ Barringer, Felicity (28 February 2013). "In California, What Price Water?". New York Times. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Connolly, Ceci (29 September 2009). "In Rationing Health Care, More Not Always Better, Experts Say". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Izumi, Lance (13 July 2015). "California should follow Nevada in offering education savings accounts". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  9. ↑ Eggen, Dan (7 January 2010). "How interest groups behind health-care legislation are financed is often unclear". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 Fang, Lee (10 August 2022). "Eli Lilly Charity Finances Groups That Oppose Insulin Price Caps Under the Auspices of "Community Development"". The Intercept. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  11. ↑ "Advisory Board". The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  12. ↑ Mascaro, Lisa (29 August 2023). "Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the US Government and Replace It with Trump's Vision". Associated Press News . Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  13. ↑ Barbaro, Michael; Strom, Stephanie (8 September 2006). "Wal-Mart Finds an Ally in Conservatives". New York Times. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  14. 1 2 3 "Sally C. Pipes". Pacific Research Institute. 26 April 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  15. ↑ "Sally Pipes". Forbes. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  16. ↑ "Clark S. Judge". White House Writers Group. Retrieved 9 April 2023.

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