Who Funds You?


Who Funds You? was a British volunteer-run project that sought to rate and promote transparency of funding sources of think tanks. The project scored think tanks according to four criteria, namely whether the organisation discloses its income, whether it publishes financial details online, whether individual donors and the amounts of each donation are published, and whether corporate donors are named and the amounts of each donation published. The project's first report into think tank transparency was published in June 2012. According to Martin Bright of The Spectator, the "exercise seems to demonstrate that left-leaning think tanks are more transparent than right-wing ones". The last report was published in October 2019 and the website is no longer being regularly updated, although people can still report if any organisation's transparency has improved since the final report.