Established in 1984, The Capital Research Center —“America’s investigative think tank” —examines how foundations, charities, and other nonprofits spend money and get involved in politics and advocacy, often in ways that donors never intended and would find abhorrent. Exposing how organizations are “captured” by interest groups and used to undermine Americans’ freedoms, CRC studies unions, environmentalist groups, and a wide variety of nonprofit and activist organizations, keeping an eye on crony capitalists who seek to profit by taking advantage of government regulations and by getting their hands on taxpayers’ money. With a specific point-of-view CRC believes in free markets, constitutional government, and individual liberty. But facts are facts, and our journalists and researchers go where the facts lead them.