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| Formation | 1949 |
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| Founder | Walter Paepcke |
| Type | Research institute, think tank |
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| Headquarters | 2300 N Street, NW, Suite 700 |
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President & CEO | Daniel R. Porterfield |
Revenue (2019) | $160,402,073[1] |
| Expenses (2019) | $147,137,098[1] |
| Website | www |
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.[2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but also has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, its original home.[3]
The Institute is largely funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, by seminar fees, and by individual donations.[4] Its board of trustees includes leaders from politics, government, business and academia who also contribute to its support. A report by the Center for International Policy's Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative of the top 50 think tanks[5] found that from 2014 to 2018 the Aspen Institute received more than US$8 million in funding from outside the United States, the fifth-highest amount the think tanks. This funding originated primarily in Western democracies but also included "sizeable donations from undemocratic regimes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates."[6]
- ^ a b "Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Aspen Institute. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- ^ "About the Aspen Institute". aspeninstitute.org. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ "Contact". Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ^ "Aspen Institute". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ on the University of Pennsylvania's Global Go-To Think Tanks rating index
- ^ Freeman, Ben (January 2020). Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America (PDF) (Report). Center for International Policy. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020.