Talk:Bradley Foundation

message: This article needs some very serious work and when I get some time I will try and fix it myself. The bulk if not all of the article is sourced from a anti-conservative organisation, and no opposing view is presented. This must be political bias, and simply wont do
jucifer 03:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I grouped the grants by amount, because there is a difference between giving $15 million and giving $37,000. I deleted the think tank references, but if anyone finds evidence they function as a think-tank then please incorporate it and add the designation back. -Willmcw 23:43, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: The Bradley Foundation recently pledged $1 million to Marquette Law School to be used toward the construction of the new law school building. Doesn't that belong on there?Wpride33 18:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Marquette Law School Gift

message: You'd think there'd be more info about the result of their investments.
Miserlou (talk) 01:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shadow Government that Controls Us All

message: He doesn't appear to have any credentials, can't seem to find anything he's published, and he doesn't appear to be a WP:RS. "The Feeding Trough" is self-published WP:SPS: send him $12 and you can get a copy. "Caution should be exercised when using such sources: if the information in question is really worth reporting, someone else is likely to have done so."
Phil Wilayto, former coordinator of A Job is a Right Campaign in Milwaukee and a contributor to MediaTransparency, a left-wing Web site that tracks the funding of right-wing politics, writes:
The overall objective of the Bradley Foundation, however, is to return the U.S. -- and the world -- to the days before governments began to regulate Big Business, before corporations were forced to make concessions to an organized labor force. In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves off.
Wilayto also published a 140-page report on the Bradley Foundation, The Feeding Trough, on behalf of the "A Job is a Right Campaign" in Milwaukee. The report claims the Bradley Foundation commissioned the studies that supported the welfare reform legislation in Wisconsin, which he contends harmed the state's poor residents. He also claimed the Bradley Foundation exploits Milwaukee's black community.
Lionel (talk) 22:42, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we're using the "Trough" report as a source. It's just mentioned. It's not that important and we can leave it out.   Will Beback  talk   23:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phil Wilayto 

message: It is somewhat alarming that at present, there is no criticism in this article. It has been completely scrubbed clean of any controversy, and is no longer in step with other Wikipedia articles. For instance, David Horowitz received $4M, and Bradley is mentioned in the "Allegations of racism" section in that article. Not to mention, the book, The Bell Curve. The Bell Curve article mentions that sources used by the book were funded by the Pioneer Fund. But the co-author, Charles Murray, is sponsored by American Enterprise Institute, which receives money from Bradley. The Bradley Foundation has funded various entities, for which the respective Wikipedia articles include criticism of racism, but the Bradley Foundation has no mention of this?
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a article containing the links between Bradley and these other organizations:
* http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/into-the-mainstream?page=0,1]
At minimum the various associations with controversy that Bradley Foundation maintains, should be documented. 216.113.193.87 (talk) 07:12, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No more criticism? 

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message: Will be looking for entire section of tie in and victory trot at Trump's Washington hotel. Wikipietime (talk) 03:23, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
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message: The article misleadingly presents this organization as a normal charity that gives to typical charity causes. However, this is a right-wing advocacy organization that primarily funnels money towards groups that push right-wing policies, including climate change denial, union busting, and social conservatism. RS make it clear that this organization primarily funds conservative advocacy organizations, whereas the only sources in this article that blandly describe it as a "charity" are self-sourced. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:31, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you mean by "normal charity", but as a matter of fact, the Bradley Foundation is an IRS-designated tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, classified as a T21 ("Corporate Foundations within the Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations category"). This means that legally it gives money to other 501(c)(3) organizations. It would have to have a 501(c)(4) designation to engage in advocacy or lobbying activities. Our article, based on reliable sources, documents that the Bradley Foundation often gives money to conservative groups. So, it is accurately described as a nonprofit charitable foundation that donates to conservative groups. Marquardtika (talk) 17:08, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Reliable sources do not describe it as a "nonprofit charitable foundation" or "charitable foundation". They do not describe it that way because doing so would be misleading in the extreme. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 17:14, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It's literally true that it is a nonprofit charitable foundation. It's an IRS legal designation. You changed the description to "right-wing advocacy organization" based on a source which says no such thing. The source describes the Bradley Foundation as "a leading source of ideas and financing for American conservatives." It also says "The foundation — named after brothers, Lynde and Harry Bradley, who were well-known Wisconsin industrialists — has more than $800 million in assets. It supports arts, education and health organizations in Wisconsin as well as, increasingly, the goals of American conservatism." Where did you get "right-wing advocacy organization" from that? If you want to introduce a new description of the group, you should find some sourcing that bears it out and integrate it with the existing content and sourcing. Marquardtika (talk) 17:27, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failure to document that the group is a right-wing org