Heritage Foundation Strategic Priorities
Commonsense intelligence plus ethnocentric myopia
Located in Washington, D.C., the Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973, and it has emerged to become an influential conservative think tank.
The mission of the Heritage Foundation is “to formulate and promote public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense,” as described in its Website.
Heritage further declares that its mission is to return power to the people. It maintains that the total of all corporate support is less than 2% of its contributions. It takes no money from government, be it federal, state, local, tribal, or foreign. Its contributions come voluntarily from its more than 500,000 members.
It did not begin so. In its early years, it was funded primarily by the Coors Foundation. In those days, Heritage was small relative to the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, and it diffe…