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The Line Forms on the Right: Scaife's Pet Causes

Richard Scaife, center, with then-Vice President Spiro Agnew, right, and Frank Armour at a 1970 GOP fundraiser in Pittsburgh. (By Harry Coughanour -- Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

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Founded in 1953 to "educate for liberty." Goal is to promote conservative principles among the best and brightest college students. First president: William F. Buckley Jr.

Judicial Watch, $8.3 million

Super-litigious D.C. "watch dog institution" best known for peppering the Clinton administration with more than a dozen lawsuits. Founder Larry Klayman once sued his mother.

Landmark Legal Foundation, $7 million

Conservative public advocacy group. Favorite target: teachers unions. Recently tried to nominate Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Brandywine Conservancy, $6.9 million

Land conservation and preservation group in Pennsylvania.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, $6.7 million

Right-leaning Washington think tank. Scholars and fellows include Lynne Cheney, Richard Perle and Newt Gingrich.

Scaife is also reportedly a major donor to the Anglican Communion Network, a theologically conservative organization founded in 2004 to fight the ordination of gay bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Source: MediaTransparency.org

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