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The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

—Thomas Jefferson

2020 Impact

Religious Liberty and Civil Rights

Heritage provided messaging and guidance on three victorious religious liberty cases at the Supreme Court:
In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the court ruled that the administration has the authority to protect the religious liberty of the Little Sisters from Obamacare’s birth control mandate.
In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the court ruled that the state of Montana could not deny state aid to parents who send their children to private religious schools.
In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, the court ruled that the “ministerial exception” provides broad protections for religious schools to make staffing decisions for themselves that are based on their own religious criteria.
Heritage inspired a bill in the Idaho House of Representatives that bans men claiming to be transgender from participating in women’s sports.
Heritage’s ideas were reflected in California Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s Protecting Children from Experimentation Act, which bans sex reassignment treatments for children.
Heritage influenced a final rule by the administration encouraging the full and equal participation of religious organizations as federal contractors.
We influenced two final Department of Health and Human Services rules that reduce regulatory compliance burdens, protect religious liberty, and eliminate confusion around non-discrimination policy.

Heritage members aren’t known for backing down from a challenge.

Even amid the uncertainty and anxiety of COVID-19 and nationwide riots, you stayed deeply involved with The Heritage Foundation. You took our calls, opened our emails, responded to our letters, attended our events, and made generous contributions and transformational gifts.

You saw that public health and constitutional freedoms were in danger, and you stepped forward to lead.

By the end of the year, and amid the most contentious election in American history, you and fellow members of the Heritage family had given $66 million.

Every cent we receive is used strategically, purposefully, and in accordance with your wishes. In 2020, you stepped up to incredible challenges—making possible Heritage’s efforts to defend election integrity, shape America’s response to COVID-19, and speak on behalf of religious liberty, free speech, the Second Amendment, and much, much more.

So That Future Generations May Live in Freedom

Our Founding Fathers sacrificed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure the freedoms Americans enjoy today, but they understood that the solemn duty of preserving them would ultimately rest on future generations.

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

—Thomas Jefferson

Members of our Heritage Legacy Society—modern-day patriots who have remembered Heritage in their wills, trusts, or other planned gifts—are helping safeguard our founders’ vision for America so that our children and grandchildren can flourish in a nation built on freedom, opportunity, and civil society.

The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Centers

The Institute for Constitutional Government

The Institute for Constitutional Government fights to protect and preserve the American Constitution, the fundamental document that translates the principles of the Founding into a framework of limited government that is central to the American way of life. The institute is focused on stopping and reversing the leftist trend of concentrating more and more power in Washington and on ensuring the continuation of American freedom.

The Institute for Economic Freedom

The Institute for Economic Freedom works to advance the Heritage mission on the economic front. Its impressive team of economists fight to expand economic freedom and opportunity to all Americans by aggressively promoting free markets, low taxes, individual liberty, and limited government. Through data-driven analyses, the institute makes clear that creating good jobs and spreading prosperity don’t require more government intervention but, instead, call for cutting existing rules, reforming the tax code, and getting government spending under control.

The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy

The Davis Institute is Heritage’s primary source for research and analysis dealing with foreign policy, homeland security, trade, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, military readiness, technology, immigration, and border security. Scholars develop policy, regularly testify before Congress, and offer expert commentary and analysis on major media platforms to promote and protect America, as well as America’s allies and interests worldwide.

The Institute for Family, Community, & Opportunity

The Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity seeks to strengthen our country and fight for future generations of Americans by investing in the most basic building block of society: the family. The institute’s team of experts do this through their work advancing religious freedom, marriage, and life; promoting child-centered education reform through parental choice; and advocating for work-based welfare reform to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty.

The Edwin J. Feulner Institute

The Edwin J. Feulner Institute works to address the mounting problems facing America in the modern age by restoring our founding ideals. The Feulner Institute works to restore Americans’ confidence in the American ideal and in the role of our culture and political system. The institute is expanding the reach of The Heritage Foundation and promoting our policies and strategic messages to all Americans, especially traditionally nonconservative audiences, by training community influencers, restoring civics education, and supporting conservative academics.

The Show Must Go On

Our virtual events, exclusively for Heritage members, kept us all connected.

Virtual Leadership Conference
Virtual Summer Series
Virtual President's Club Meeting

2020 Impact

Religious Liberty and Civil Rights

Heritage provided messaging and guidance on three victorious religious liberty cases at the Supreme Court:
In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the court ruled that the administration has the authority to protect the religious liberty of the Little Sisters from Obamacare’s birth control mandate.
In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the court ruled that the state of Montana could not deny state aid to parents who send their children to private religious schools.
In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, the court ruled that the “ministerial exception” provides broad protections for religious schools to make staffing decisions for themselves that are based on their own religious criteria.
Heritage inspired a bill in the Idaho House of Representatives that bans men claiming to be transgender from participating in women’s sports.
Heritage’s ideas were reflected in California Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s Protecting Children from Experimentation Act, which bans sex reassignment treatments for children.
Heritage influenced a final rule by the administration encouraging the full and equal participation of religious organizations as federal contractors.
We influenced two final Department of Health and Human Services rules that reduce regulatory compliance burdens, protect religious liberty, and eliminate confusion around non-discrimination policy.

The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Centers

The Institute for Constitutional Government

The Institute for Constitutional Government fights to protect and preserve the American Constitution, the fundamental document that translates the principles of the Founding into a framework of limited government that is central to the American way of life. The institute is focused on stopping and reversing the leftist trend of concentrating more and more power in Washington and on ensuring the continuation of American freedom.

The Institute for Economic Freedom

The Institute for Economic Freedom works to advance the Heritage mission on the economic front. Its impressive team of economists fight to expand economic freedom and opportunity to all Americans by aggressively promoting free markets, low taxes, individual liberty, and limited government. Through data-driven analyses, the institute makes clear that creating good jobs and spreading prosperity don’t require more government intervention but, instead, call for cutting existing rules, reforming the tax code, and getting government spending under control.

The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy

The Davis Institute is Heritage’s primary source for research and analysis dealing with foreign policy, homeland security, trade, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, military readiness, technology, immigration, and border security. Scholars develop policy, regularly testify before Congress, and offer expert commentary and analysis on major media platforms to promote and protect America, as well as America’s allies and interests worldwide.

The Institute for Family, Community, & Opportunity

The Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity seeks to strengthen our country and fight for future generations of Americans by investing in the most basic building block of society: the family. The institute’s team of experts do this through their work advancing religious freedom, marriage, and life; promoting child-centered education reform through parental choice; and advocating for work-based welfare reform to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty.

The Edwin J. Feulner Institute

The Edwin J. Feulner Institute works to address the mounting problems facing America in the modern age by restoring our founding ideals. The Feulner Institute works to restore Americans’ confidence in the American ideal and in the role of our culture and political system. The institute is expanding the reach of The Heritage Foundation and promoting our policies and strategic messages to all Americans, especially traditionally nonconservative audiences, by training community influencers, restoring civics education, and supporting conservative academics.

The Heritage Foundation’s Distinguished Fellows

Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus

Edwin Meese III

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Rick Dearborn

Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow

Becky Norton Dunlop

Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought

Dr. Lee Edwards

Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Stephen Moore

The Heritage Foundation’s Named Fellows

Joseph C. And Elizabeth A. Anderlik Fellow

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow

Mike Gonzalez

Richard F. Aster Fellow

Paul Winfree

AWC Family Foundation Fellow

Joseph Loconte, Ph.D.

Ed Gilbertson and Sherry Lindberg Gilbertson Senior Legal Fellow

John G. Malcolm

Marilyn and Fred Guardabassi Fellow in Media and Public Policy

Kenneth McIntyre

Jay Kingham Senior Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs

Brett D. Schaefer

Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Economic Freedom

Ambassador Terry Miller

Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education

Lindsey M. Burke, Ph.D.

Bernard and Barbara Lomas Senior Research Fellow

Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.

Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow

Nicolas Loris

E.W. Richardson Fellow

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.

John, Barbara, and Victoria Rumpel Senior Legal Fellow

Paul J. Larkin, Jr.

William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy

Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D.

Will Skillman Fellow in Education

Jonathan Butcher

Margaret Thatcher Fellow

Steven Groves

Jay Van Andel Senior Analyst in Trade Policy

Tori K. Smith

John Von Kannon Fellow in Philanthropy

Carsten E. Walter

Preston A. Wells, Jr. Fellow in Health Policy

Edmund F. Haislmaier

Chung Ju-yung Fellow for Foreign Policy Studies

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.

Fighting for America

The Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees: (from left) Steve Forbes, New York, N.Y.; Robert Pennington, Darien, Conn.; Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale, Mich.; Virginia Heckman, Atlanta, Ga.; Robert P. George, Princeton, N.J.; Brian Tracy, Solana Beach, Calif.; Michael W. Gleba, Vice Chairman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Edwin J. Feulner, Alexandria, Va.; Nersi Nazari, Atherton, Calif.; Barb Van Andel-Gaby, Chairman, Duluth, Ga.; Kay C. James, Midlothian, Va.; Jerry Hume, San Francisco, Calif.; Mark A. Kolokotrones, La Canada, Calif.; J. William Middendorf II, Little Compton, R.I.; Thomas A. Saunders III, Palm Beach, Fla.; William L. Walton, Washington, Va.; Abby Moffat, Bethesda, Md.; Edwin Meese III, McLean, Va.; Anthony J. Saliba, Chicago, Ill.; (Not pictured) Ryan Haggerty, Fort Worth, Texas; Rebekah A. Mercer, New York, N.Y.; Price Harding, Bonita Springs, Fla.

Our mission: To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Board of Trustees*

Barb Van Andel-Gaby, Chairman

Michael W. Gleba, Vice Chairman

The Hon. Kay Coles James, President

Larry P. Arnn, Ph.D.

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.

Steve Forbes

Robert P. George, Ph.D.

Ryan Haggerty

Virginia Heckman

Jerry Hume

Mark A. Kolokotrones

The Hon. Edwin Meese III

Rebekah A. Mercer

The Hon. J. William Middendorf II

Abby Spencer Moffat

Nersi Nazari, Ph.D.

Robert Pennington

Anthony J. Saliba

Thomas A. Saunders III, Chairman Emeritus

Brian Tracy

William L. Walton

Honorary Trustees*

David R. Brown, M.D., Chairman Emeritus

The Hon. Frank Shakespeare

Society of emeritus Trustees*

Phillip N. Truluck, Chairman

Belden H. Bell

Midge Decter

J. Frederic “Fritz” Rench

William E. Simon, Jr.

Officers*

The Hon. Kay Coles James, President

The Hon. Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D., Executive Vice President

John P. Backiel, Vice President

Thomas P. Binion, Vice President

Robert B. Bluey, Vice President

Christopher G. Byrnes, General Counsel and Secretary

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., Vice President

Wes Dyck, Vice President

Eric Korsvall, Vice President

John Malcolm, Vice President

Andrew P. McIndoe, Vice President

Angela Sailor, Vice President

Jack Spencer, Vice President

Bridgett G. Wagner, Vice President

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., Vice President

*As of December 31, 2019

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2020 Financial Statements

Operating Revenues

Contributions

86 %

Program Revenue & Other Income

14 %

Operating Expenses

Fundraising

18 %

Management & General

2 %

Programs

80 %

Preliminary results for The Heritage Foundation only. Heritage Action reports its financials separately. Final audited financial statements will be available on or after July 31, 2021.

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