Heritage Foundation

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Causes: Citizen Participation, Public & Societal Benefit, Public Finance, Taxation & Monetary Policy

Mission: To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values, and a strong national defense.

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18 Stories from Volunteers, Donors & Supporters

SusuAnn General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

05/13/2025

Curse the Heritage Foundation and everyone who helped create Project 2025. May you all die from air pollution or a new pandemic, and may your children be unemployable because they are too stupid to figure anything out. I hope your new car falls into a pothole on the interstate. May you be tended by a doctor who failed out of med school. May you be served by the only male nurse in the hospital because all the females have gone out on maternity leave.

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tttttt General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

03/06/2025

The Heritage Foundation is the breeding ground for a brainwashed cult. How dare you say that you are "defending our country's founding principles" - if you mean that legalizing slavery and racial discrimination, removing worker protections, removing children's education, criminalizing libraries, removing support for disabled people, and allowing the lethal spread of an avoidable disease that has the options for vaccines is true to these founding principles than CONGRATULATIONS. I am disgusted by the misguided, toxic, and harmful work of this organization.

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denydefenddepose Board Member

Rating: 1

01/20/2025

The Heritage Foundation only works to serve the billionaire class. No morals

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shel90 General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

05/16/2024

The Heritage Foundation only works to serve the billionaire class. The don’t advocate for everyone to thrive especially Americans with disabilities.

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dbravo General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

10/04/2018

This is a wealthy organization founded by wealthy people who want to keep their wealth by influencing public opinion, votes and elected officials.

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stash28609 General Member of the Public

Rating: 4

04/23/2017

Dear Sirs’
In reply to your apparently well meaning survey.?
Probably you will just throw this in the trash as having come from a crank, however it did not. I am a proud 6th generation US Citizen .
My Great grandfather, Grandfather, Father and myself all stepped up and served this “God Blessed Country” in its time of need. We all thankfully, returned home weary but confidently, thankfully of having made our contribution to its sustainability; to live in freedom and rase families and abide by the laws of our country. We have all endeavored to obey the laws, make an honest living, rase god fearing honest families and advance the ideals of our fore fathers as outlined and clarified in Declaration of Independence and the resulting US Constitution.
Your questions posed to me on, what this president should or could do?; now that he has been elected to the highest office in the United Stases,— has left me in great turmoil. “President Trump", is not going to succeed of fail as a result on the opposition “Democrat” party but most assuredly “he may fail” as a result of his “ fellow Republicans”. “ So Sad “ With a few valiant exceptions; many of these self centered, egotistical, arrogant, representatives, of their constituent “legal citizens”, should be ashamed of every breath they take while taking up precious space in this countries Capital. Washington DC..
The only way this president will ultimately accomplish any of the goals he is attempting to achieve will be; if our Representatives and Senators will “work together” as a team” of winning , duly elected representatives of this glorious & free Democratic Republic. They must vote on and sign into law those enumerated promises & goals they have been elected on. “Obstructionist democrats” will not be their downfall, it will be their own “fellow” REPUBLICANS.
Wy wife and I have been waiting to visit Washington for many years hoping that a capable leader with a willing and capable congress would be in charge when we make our final visit to this great countries capital . At our age we will soon no longer physically able to make the visit on our own. Next week,we have decided to finally make that journey; but we are saddened that, the many promises of the last election will be for not. These seemingly feckless duly elected Republicans now in control of the House, Senate and finally the Presidency have no idea how unite as a team to win. Though he was possibly not the originator of the saying; Edmond Berk once is quoted as saying; “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” This is apparently a path worn with pride in Washington DC. Again, so sad, These obstructionist members of the Republican party are driving the final nail in the eventual demise of the most successful form of government ever conceived by man. And they smile to the cameras.
Kind Regards, A S Giles ----- agilesswfla1@gmail.com

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ge204017356 Donor

Rating: 3

12/20/2016

I truly believe Heritage Foundation is sincerely, bible based with integrity and goals to achieve in getting news out to the people. However, I do have one complaint. I have and do donate from time to time. With that said, I recently received a token of appreciation from you which caused me some concern. I t was a beige fabric bag, with the American flag and of course, the Heritage Foundation proudly across the bottom of the bag. My suggestion to someone is that if you are going to send out a token of appreciation; you should make sure you consider it an item you would be proud to display your foundation name. Had my husband not disposed of the bag it was mailed in; I would have returned it to SENDER. The American flag was seriously faded and spotted and even distorted. The only thing clear on the bag was again, the foundation name at the bottom. If you can afford to spend money on "tokens of appreciation" that are bad quality, to the point that no one would really get any use out of it; because they would not be seen carrying it...then money is being wasted that could be used for the foundation work. I know you do good work; but wasting money is not good. If I receive any more "tokens" that are inferior and looks like a complete waste of money; I will assume you have more than enough money and may not need my future donations.

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VARGREAT Donor

Rating: 5

11/21/2014

I applaud the work of this organization in helping to fight the encroachment of government in our daily lives. Our founding fathers saw the danger of an overreaching government and fought the Revolutionary war to free ourselves from that. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were written to protect "we the people" from the government.

The free enterprise system will always be far more efficient in creating wealth and prosperity for all. Socialism only means that everybody gets to be equally poor. Ask the French who are about to go bankrupt because as Margaret Thatcher said:

"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

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Janiah H. Donor

Rating: 5

09/16/2014

This is the "Big Daddy" of conservative movement think tanks. Hundreds of employees, reliably mainstream conservative on every issue. Its focus is on clear, concise research on critical issues for lawmakers and the public. If the Heritage Foundation did not exist, we would need to invent it. I visit its website often and so should everyone who wants to know the facts behind the big issues. Strongly recommend.

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buy.chevy General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

02/19/2013

The Heritage foundation refuses to acknowledge that we have asked them on at least 5 different occaisions to stop sending mail to my fathers address. he has given the way too much money over the last 2 years. HE CANT AFFORD IT!! but he is 85 years old and has no clue what he is doing. I guess the Heritage Foundation is afraid of losing this cash cow. Do the right thing and stop sending mail telling the eldeerly that they Need to give an Emergency Donation, this puts fear into them. This is just the same as any other scam out there, If you really do what you say then do what we ask and take elderly people off your mailing list before they cant afford to eat.

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miso_sori Donor

Rating: 5

02/08/2013

The Heritage Foundation was NOT founded by the Koch brothers. A quick google search, which takes 10 seconds, clearly shows this to be misinformation. The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner and Joseph Coors. This Think Tank has been pivotal in educating people about the conservative values this country was founded on. Very professionally run charity with good accountability and transparency.

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jsblas Donor

Rating: 5

11/20/2012

Jamatucci1 this organization is attempting to RETURN this country to its roots and the ideals of our founding fathers. The "re-engineering" that is taking place is from pro-socialist, anti-capitalist, "entitlement" motivated, selfish individuals who ASK NOT "what they can do for their country" but rather "what their country can do for them". That quote is for the new self centered democrats who have forgotten what their party and leaders USED to be about. As far as the "intellectual" who gave us all a lesson on "evil" people and how they blame others - I'm curious if that applies to those who "blame Bush" for everything that's gone wrong in this country under the current leadership. Both of you should consider moving to a country where your ideals are already established - perhaps Russia, Greece, France or China. The governments there will "take care of you". Don't forget, when you give up the right to care for yourself (to a government), your giving up your liberty.

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Michael A. Volunteer

Rating: 5

10/20/2012

Heritage Foundation is a wonderful organization. We have been donors for years. Their primary role is to educate people that we have a Constitutional Republic and should be governed accordingly. Also the need to stop the wasteful government spending of tax dollars...

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jamatucci1 General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

08/07/2012

This organization is clearly focused on re-engineering America down a path that destroys the American Dream for nearly everyone.

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Frank Schwartz Donor

Rating: 5

04/19/2012

I enjoy the daily Member Briefing online. This is a highly professional and educational organization. They are conservative and aligned with "the rule of law".

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david-ridenour Donor

Rating: 5

04/05/2012

The Heritage Foundation is an excellent, professionally-run organization. Pay no mind to the reviewer who says the foundation was started by the the Koch brothers (as though there would be something wrong with that anyway -- they made their money honestly, through the free market, not by ripping off the taxpayer). They've confused Heritage with another free market institute. The motive of the diatribe is obvious: They want to harm an organization that has been effective in slowing the growth of government. Greatnonprofits is worse than useless because they permit anybody to anonymously post whatever they want about an organization and won't even remove remove reviews once evidence is provided to them that they include false and defamatory information. Greatnonprofits thus hold lower standards that Wikipedia, if you can believe that.

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Laporre General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

03/27/2012

THe Koch Brothers founded the Heritage Foundation to further their cause to buy the opinion of the United States. These brothers are Evil incarnate. Evil people blame others for problems. Evil people do not do a personal inventory as to their own evil behavior - they are immune. Evil people plan evil on other less fortunate. This fits the modus operandi of the Koch family. I suggest you people out there pray for them.

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Beth Robertson General Member of the Public

Rating: 1

02/03/2012

This may be an "okay" organization, but in one way they are terrible. I have been trying to stop the automatic monthly withdrawals from my mother's checking account, since she died in 2011. I sent land mail in December 2011, and again in mid-January 2012 after the January contribution was taken. I sent an email which they should have had on January 30, and finally after emailing back and forth, in the afternoon of February 3, they say they will stop future charges but that it is too close to mid-February to stop the February charge. If they had really read and processed their mail properly, these charges would already have been stopped.

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