Originally posted July 25, 2007 @ 12:04pm CST
This previous post inspired the post below: More Pew Spew (Sunoco Disinformation): Muslims soured on suicide bombings, they say…Uh Huh.
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The $ugar Daddy…
The Pew Charitable Trusts
In their words…
History
What are today The Pew Charitable Trusts came into existence in 1948 as The Pew Memorial Foundation. The four founders—J.N. Pew, Jr., J. Howard Pew, Mary Ethel Pew and Mabel Pew Myrin—chose to honor their parents’ memory by establishing a foundation that would contribute to the public’s health and welfare and strengthen the communities in which we live. The founders capitalized the foundation with shares of Sun Oil Company stock, and gathered for the first board meeting on April 3, 1948.
[Sunoco got its start on March 27, 1886, when Joseph Newton Pew and Edward O. Emerson, partners in The Peoples Natural Gas Company in Pittsburgh, Pa., made a bold move to diversify their business. Looking to the promising new oil discoveries in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the partners paid $4,500 for two oil leases near Lima, Ohio. Within a few years the company had acquired pipelines, leases, storage tanks -- and was emerging as one of Ohio's leading suppliers of crude oil. On March 17, 1890, it became The Sun Oil Company of Ohio and was producing, transporting and storing oil as well as refining, shipping and marketing petroleum products. Through the purchase of the Diamond Oil Company in 1894, Sun acquired a refinery in Toledo, Ohio, and began operations there in 1895. The partnership ended in 1899, when Mr. Pew bought out Mr. Emerson's interest.]
In its early years, the foundation worked in almost complete anonymity. The founders’ religious principles and family philosophy made them very sensitive to any appearance of self-promotion through their “good works.”
Between 1948 and 1956, The Pew Memorial Foundation made 181 grants totaling $12.5 million. Despite the fact that all grants were made anonymously, requests for support continued to multiply, placing increasing demands on the founders and their colleagues on the board. They came to realize that the proper disposition of their philanthropy required, in the long term, a staff to manage their assets as well as handle the administrative tasks of grant making. To that end, the board created The Glenmede Trust Company in 1956. It disbanded the foundation, transferred its assets to Glenmede and empowered the company to undertake a variety of trust activities, including administration of the newly formed Pew Memorial Trust as well as two additional Trusts established by the founders. The trust structure enabled the Pews to create individual funds with specific missions reflecting their personal charitable interests. It also enabled them to turn over the day-to-day responsibilities of managing the funds while still retaining a direct role in the grant making process.
During the 1960s, the grant making of The Pew Charitable Trusts grew to a yearly average of $5 million, a fourfold increase over the average annual grant making of the original foundation. While the 1960s were characterized throughout the country by turmoil, for The Pew Charitable Trusts they marked an era of growth, consolidation and success.
The decade of the 1970s marked the end of the founders’ era for The Pew Charitable Trusts. After J.N. Pew died in 1963, J. Howard Pew, Mabel Pew Myrin and Mary Ethel Pew continued their personal involvement and leadership of the Trusts’ grant making, but by the end of that decade, they had all passed away.
Despite the founders’ passing and a transition in leadership, the philanthropy remained strong during the 1970s, awarding more than 3,500 grants totaling $296 million—five times the total given during the prior 10 years. The 1970s was also a time of geographical expansion in the Trusts’ grant making, particularly in the fields of education and medical research. While maintaining a strong commitment to Philadelphia-area organizations that continues to this day, the Trusts’ grant making expanded to include an ever-widening circle of nationally focused organizations. This decade also marked the transition away from anonymous grant making.
On the threshold of the 1980s, the Trusts published their first annual report and began to issue annual grant making guidelines outlining the activities they would consider for support. This period also marked the beginning of a more strategic approach to grant making in which the Trusts began to take a more active partnership role in developing programs designed to respond to needs in the field. Over the next several years, Trusts-initiated programs, as they came to be known, were adopted by every program area, providing a strategic vehicle for making highly focused projects to address significant issues or problems. Between 1980 and 1989, the Trusts’ board approved $1.13 billion in grants to more than 5,000 organizations.
Today, the Pew Trusts are among the nation’s largest private philanthropies, with assets of $4.3 billion and annual grant commitments of about $230 million. Although the scope and level of our grant making has expanded dramatically since 1948, we remain committed to the same fundamental values that guided the founders’ lives: encouraging individual growth and potential; improving the quality of people’s lives; maintaining and nurturing our democratic traditions; ensuring an educated and engaged citizenry; protecting religious freedom; and assisting and supporting those in need.
In our sixth decade we are not standing pat. We know we will encounter different challenges and problems that will require us to respond in new ways. In each case, we will be guided by the principles of leadership, stewardship and service. First, we will seek out appropriate organizations or individuals and help them lead the search toward practical solutions; second, we will ensure that we are using our resources as strategically and effectively as possible: and third, we will support only those strategies that respond clearly to real needs or address the long-term interests of the communities we serve.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS – 2007
Robert H. Campbell
Susan W. Catherwood
Gloria Twine Chisum
Alan J. Davis
Aristides W. Georgantas
J. Howard Pew II
J.N. Pew IV, M.D.
Mary Catharine Pew, M.D.
R. Anderson Pew (Also on the board of SUNOCO)
Sandy Pew
Rebecca W. Rimel
Robert G. Williams
Ethel Benson WisterThe Pew Charitable Trusts
Market Street, Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7077
ph: 215.575.9050 / fx: 215.575.49391425 K Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005-3674
ph: 202.207.2150 / fx: 202.207.0360e-mail: info@pewtrusts.com
A few money trails and organizations who receive PEW money:
TRUSTS, FOUNDATIONS, DONORS: Following the money trail
Leaders of the Forest Certification Movement, Funders, Fiscal Agents, Non-funding Advisors:
Coalition Models:
MacArther Foundation→Forest Stewardship Council→Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, Moriah Fund, Surdna Foundation→World Resources Institute, New England Environmental Policy Center, New England Natural Resources Center.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund→Certified Forest Products Council→Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, Compton Foundation, W. Alton Jones Foundation→Environmental Advantage→Natural Resources Defense Council, Rainforest Alliance, World Wildlife Fund, Wilderness Society, World Resources Institute.
- Sonoco→Pew Charitable Trusts→The Nature Conservancy.
- Does any of the Pew money find its way to ecoterrorists?
- Sponsors of ecoterrorism continue support during and after widely-reported atrocities.
More to come in future posts…
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