Landmark Legal Foundation
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The Landmark Legal Foundation is non-profit 501(c)3 conservative legal advocacy group with a $1 million annual budget. Through litigation and direct interfacing with government agencies, they advance a platform of limited government. [1] Recently it has nominated commentator Rush Limbaugh, who sits as an unpaid member of its advisory board[2]for a Nobel Peace Prize.
[edit] History
Landmark was founded in 1976 as an offshoot of The National Legal Center for the Public Interest in order to address the special interest groups and unions “dedicated to tearing down [individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government] and advancing Big Government.”[3] Landmark has made efforts to scale back funding for non-profits which it holds to be political in nature but list no political expenditures on tax forms. The National Education Association has often been the subject of complaints to the IRS made by Landmark Legal. Over its History Landmark Legal has filed lawsuits against labor unions and school desegregation and has fought for legislation that would allow parents to direct public education funding toward their children's private schools.[4]
[edit] Funding
Among its regular contributors are the ExxonMobil Foundation. Other funders include the Allegheny Foundation; Lynde and Harry Bradley, Foundation, Inc.; Carthage Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation; JM Foundation; Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation; Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.; John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.; Sarah Scaife Foundation; and the Scaife Family Foundation.[5]
