Castle Rock Foundation

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The Castle Rock Foundation was founded in 1993 with an endowment of $36,596,253 from the Adolph Coors Foundation. In 1999, assets totalled $67 million. The total giving in 1999 was $3 million.

Its mission is to:

• "Promote a better understanding of the free enterprise system"
• "Preserve the principles upon which our democracy was founded to help ensure a limited role for government and the protection of individual rights as provided for in the Constitution"
• "Encourage personal responsibility and leadership"
• "Uphold traditional American value"

[edit] Governance

Officers / Directors (1999)

• Peter H. Coors, Vice President
• Jeffrey Coors, Treasurer
• Linda Tafoya, Secretary
• Holland Coors, Trustee
• Robert Windsor, Trustee

[edit] Past and present grantees

Between 1995 and 2003 the organization donated to the following organizations ^[1]. Organizations are not included in the list below if the total amount given is less than $50,000 USD over this time frame.

Over $1 million USD

• Heritage Foundation
• Hillsdale College
• Free Congress Foundation
• Adolph Coors Medical Research Foundation
• Johnson & Wales University

Over $500,000 USD

• John Wayne Cancer Institute
• Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
• Academy Research and Development Institute
• Mountain States Legal Foundation
• Saint James School
• Boy Scouts of America: Denver Area Council

Over $250,000 USD

• Institute for Justice
• American Legislative Exchange Council
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Pacific Legal Foundation
• Independence Institute
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• National Association of Scholars
• Landmark Legal Foundation
• A Christian Ministry in the National Parks
• Leadership Institute
• Center for the Study of Popular Culture
• Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union
• Historic RittenhouseTown
• Cornell University

Over $100,000 USD

American Indian College Fund Center for Individual Rights Institute for American Values Southeastern Legal Foundation Intercollegiate Studies Institute Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum

Denver Foundation College Fund/UNCF Media Research Center Independent Women's Forum Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the USA Marshall Area Community Center

United Negro College Fund, Inc.-WI Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment Becket Fund Children's Educational Opportunity (CEO) Foundation America Property and Environment Research Center (PERC - formerly Political Economy Research Center) Foundation for Teaching Economics

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Competitive Enterprise Institute Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation Defenders of Property Rights National Center for Public Policy Research

Institute on Religion and Democracy Statistical Assessment Service Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries Cato Institute National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Over $50,000 USD

Western Journalism Center Education & Research Institute Mind-Body Medical Institute Hudson Institute Cascade Policy Institute Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge

George Mason University Foundation Nevada Policy Research Institute Equal Opportunity Foundation National Museum of Women in the Arts Ethics and Public Policy Center Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation Institute on Religion and Public Life Evergreen Freedom Foundation Common Good National Constitution Center Harvard University, President and Fellows of

Words Can Heal National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy Joseph Richey Hospice Denver Health and Hospitals Foundation Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation Promise Keepers

National Fatherhood Initiative Young America's Foundation Global Futures National Catholic Bioethics Center Reason Foundation American Studies Center

[edit] External links

• Foundation website
• List of recipients