According to its website, the NCPA is a nonprofit public-policy research institute that receives 70% of its funding from foundations, 20% from corporations, and 10% from individuals.

Founding board members included:

• Wayne Calloway, President and CEO of Frito-Lay
• Jere Thompson, President and CEO of the Southland Corporation
• Robert Dedman, President and CEO of ClubCorp
• Russell Perry, President and CEO of Republic Financial Services
• Sir Antony Fisher, President and CEO of the Atlas Foundation

National Center for Policy Analysis Board of Directors

• Thomas W. Smith, Managing Partner of Prescott Investors, Inc.
• John C. Goodman, President, NCPA
• Pete du Pont, Richards, Layton and Finger
• James Cleo Thompson, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Thompson Petroleum Corp.
• Jere W. Thompson, President, The Williamsburg Corporation
• Dan W. Cook III, Senior Director of Goldman Sachs & Co.
• Robert H. Dedman, Chairman of the Board, ClubCorp International
• Virginia Manheimer, Trustee, The Hickory Foundation
• Henry J. “Bud” Smith, Chairman Emeritus, Clark/Bardes, Inc.

(all of the above is from http://www.ncpa.org; January 15, 2001)

Supporting Foundations include:

• DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
• El Paso Energy Foundation
• ExxonMobil Foundation
• Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
• Lilly Endowment Inc.
• Procter & Gamble Fund

(Foundation Center - Foundation Directory Online; accessed 2/24/03)