Edwatch: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Organization Name:	American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Company Line:	The American Enterprise Institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise. AEI pursues these unchanging ideals through independent thinking, open debate, reasoned argument, facts and the highest standards of research and exposition. Without regard for politics or prevailing fashion, we dedicate our work to a more prosperous, safer and more democratic nation and world.
Bottom Line:	AEI is one of the nation's most successful neoconservative think tanks. It has been extremely successful in placing its people in influential governmental positions, particularly in the Bush Administration.
Year Established:	1944
Organization Type:	Nonprofit
Major Donors:	Walton Family Foundation, Smith Foundation, Scaife Foundation, McKenna Foundation, John Olin Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation, Carthage Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation
Where the Money Goes 990 Tax Documents:	2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2011