http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste#External_resourcesCitizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is non-profit group that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and in favour of Microsoft and against open source software.
Funding
CAGW, an IRS 501(c)(3) tax deductable charity, is closely linked to the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) which is an IRS 501(c)(4) and therefore it is not a tax deductable organization but more free to do lobbying. " is the lobbying arm of CGAW."
According to the CAGW website "Eighty-five percent of the organization's funding comes from individual contributors around the nation. Corporate and foundation gifts account for the other 15 percent".
In 2001 CAGW's total budget was $4.7 million.
Media Transparency's database records CAGW as having received 8 grants totalling $225,000 (unadjusted for inflation) from three foundations - the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Since 1998 the only foundation funder has been Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation.
The conservative Capital Research Center (CRC) notes in its Searchlight database (which records corporate and general foundation contributions) that CAGW has "received funding from:
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
* Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil)
* Ingersoll-Rand Company
* Johnson & Johnson
* F.M. Kirby Foundation
* Philip Morris
* RJR Nabisco (now part of the Altria Group)
* Sears Roebuck & Company
Others listed include:
* John Deere Foundation
* Eaton Charitable Fund
* Columbia/HCA Foundation
However, CRC's database generally does not record direct corporate contributions as distinct from grants from corporate foundations.
A few examples of tobacco industry donations to CAGW:
* Philip Morris
* 1995, $50,000
* 1996, $50,000
* 1997, $50,000
* 1998, $35,000
* 1999, $10,000 (budgeted)
* The Tobacco Institute
* 1999, $10,000 (budgeted)