From Donna:Robert Wood Johnson Foundations

A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation search for their involvement in current events … Whew, what I found! You DO want to read these!
'NO' on Hillary and 'NO' on McCain.

…. According to recent polls, 86 percent of the American people support reauthorizing SCHIP, with seven in 10 saying they support the Democratic plan to expand the program by $35 billion over five years. [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation release, 8/23/07; Washington Post, 10/2/07] http://www.azdem.org/press/631/shadegg-mccain-continue-to-deny-health-ca...

On June 6, 1996, the Regents of the University of Colorado submitted a proposal to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) for a grant under the Foundation's "A Matter of Degree" program. The University received $870,269 over 5 years in exchange for using its students, the citizens of Boulder, and the people of Colorado as laboratory rats in a social engineering experiment designed to "change campus culture" and the laws governing alcohol consumption.

Based in Princeton, New Jersey, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is one of the nations 10 largest It awarded almost $300,000,000 in grants in 1997.
Rather than help sick, poor, or unfortunate individuals, RWJ buys government policy. It spent millions to pass the Clinton health care plan, and continues to lavish funds on organizations and state governments willing to work to increase government control of health care. When RWJ decided that substance abuse was a bigger national health problem than cancer, heart disease, stroke, or diabetes, all foundation funding for tobacco control efforts went from $85,000 a year in 1990 to $10.6 million in 1995.

… Spending includes direct support of the Clinton health care plan and direct support of the executive branches of state governments willing to work on implementing Clinton Care in particular states. It also includes funding the push to provide school-based health care centers, "grants" to local organizations who publicly support that agenda, and salaries to put RWJ "scholars" in staff positions in the Senate. … Full article: http://www.i2i.org/main/article.php?article_id=118&cycle=2008-1

Well, Clinton and McCain are both anti here, from 1998:
Clinton and company are contributing our money to the anti-tobacco effort, not their own. "Federal programs begun by the Clinton Administration are funding the state and local networks that tobacco control advocates used in this year's push for even more new laws," Reilly reports. "That effort failed, but ongoing federal programs continue to help state and local coalitions increase cigarette taxes that in turn will fund more tobacco control efforts. Government-supported activists," he contends, "are the core of the next federal-level anti-tobacco campaign.

"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation works hand in glove with the Administration," Reilly continues. "It has contributed millions to anti-tobacco efforts for the past several years. Although the private grantmaker is the largest health care philanthropy in the United States," he observes, "it operates in relative obscurity. But its support for tobacco control has propelled the recent national debate: the foundation is the largest funder of the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, the leading non-profit advocate for the McCain bill." http://www.americasfuture.net/1998/sept98/98-0907b.html

Top 10 Liberal Foundations
The 2005 Chronicle of Philanthropy annual survey of the largest private foundations (published March 23, 2006) found that 122 foundations provided asset figures that totaled $166.5 billion. The assets of just the top 10 foundations were $94.4 billion. The 10 largest "liberal" foundations that give substantial funding to leftist public policy and advocacy organizations are listed below.

10. Soros Foundations Network/Open Society Institute -- New York City, N.Y.
(2004 figures)
Assets: $594,000,000
Grants: $97,000,000

9. Rockefeller Brothers Fund -- New York City, N.Y.
(2004 figures)
Assets: $773,436,060
Grants: $23,354,833

8. Heinz Endowments -- Pittsburgh, Pa.
(2004 figures)
Assets: $1,399,462,836
Grants: $61,213,125

7. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Flint, Mich.
Assets: $2,490,000.000
Grants: $113,000,000

6. California Endowment -- Woodland Hills, Calif.
Assets: $3,729,571,524
Grants: $153,242,789

5. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- Chicago, Ill.
Assets: $5,360,000,000
Grants: $193,000,000

4. David and Lucile Packard Foundation -- Los Altos, Calif.
Assets: $5,788,500,000
Grants: $176,137,000

3. W.K. Kellogg Foundation -- Battle Creek, Mich.
Assets: $7,928,000,000
Grants: $219,000,000

2. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Princeton, N.J.
Assets: $9,105,401,000 [That is Billion]
Grants: $372,860,000

1. Ford Foundation -- New York City, N.Y.
Assets: $11,615,906,693
Grants: $532,579,756
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