California-based free-market think tank
Pacific Research Institute Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
Abbreviation PRI Formation 1979 (46 years ago) (1979 ) Founders 94-2528433 Legal status 501(c)(3) Purpose Public policy analysis Headquarters Location President
Sally C. Pipes[ b] Chairman
Clark S. Judge[ c] Revenue $12 million[ 2] (2023) Expenses $5.39 million[ 2] (2023) Website pacificresearch .org
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ThePacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI ) is aCalifornia -basedfree-market think tank which promotes "the principles ofindividual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, andlimited government .[ 3] PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropistAntony Fisher andSan Francisco businessman James North.[ 4] [ 5] The organization is headquartered inPasadena, California , with an additional office inSacramento .[ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
PRI is active in the policy areas of education, economics, health care, the environment, and water supply.[ 9] [ 10] It operates the Center for California's Future, which has a goal of "reinvigorating California's entrepreneurial, self-reliant traditions" and the Laffer Center, which is "focused on educating people on free-markets andsupply-side economics ."[ 11]
From 1996 through 2009, the organization published an annualIndex of Leading Environmental Indicators , which tracked environmental trends worldwide. PRI started theCenter for Medicine in the Public Interest , a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy.[ 12]
In 2022, PRI president Sally C. Pipes opposed federal efforts to capcopayments at $35 forinsulin , and PRI opposed plans by California to back generic manufacturing of the drug.[ 13]
PRI is a member of the advisory board ofProject 2025 ,[ 14] a collection ofconservative andright-wing policy proposals fromthe Heritage Foundation to reshape theUnited States federal government and consolidateexecutive power should theRepublican nominee win the2024 presidential election .[ 15]
Pipes has been president of the institute since 1991.[ 16] [ 17] Inspired byMargaret Thatcher , she writes a regular column forForbes , focusing on health care in the United States.[ 18] [ 19] In 2008, she founded the Benjamin Rush Institute as a conservative association for medical students with 20 chapters at medical schools across America. Pipes is originally fromCanada and became a U.S. citizen in 2006.[ 20] She opposessingle-payer health care systems.[ 13]
The current chairman of the board of trustees Clark S. Judge (since 2005) is also a co-founder of the White House Writers Group.[ 21]
PRI's total revenues in 2020 were $5.6 million, according toProPublica 's Nonprofit Explorer database.[ 22] TheLilly Endowment , connected toEli Lilly and Company , is a donor, contributing $175,000 a year in grants to PRI since 2015, according toThe Intercept .[ 23]
^ IRS Form-990 yr2020 shows corporate address in Pasadena ^ Pipes became president in 1991 ^ Judge became chairman in 2005 ^ "Contact" .PRI . Retrieved4 April 2023 .^a b "Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy – Nonprofit Explorer" .ProPublica . 9 May 2013. Retrieved11 June 2025 .^ Hanner, Ken (9 January 2011)."Conservative Spotlight: Pacific Research Institute" .Human Events . Retrieved8 September 2015 . ^ Butler, Eamonn (28 June 2015)."Antony Fisher, herald of freedom" . Adam Smith Institute. Retrieved8 September 2015 . ^ "History" .PRI . Retrieved4 April 2023 .^ "Pacific Research Institute" .Bloomberg .^ "Charity Navigator - Rating for Pacific Research Institute" .www.charitynavigator.org . Retrieved19 August 2025 .^ Fisher, Michael."Pacific Research Institute" .DeSmog . Retrieved19 August 2025 . ^ Barringer, Felicity (28 February 2013)."In California, What Price Water?" .New York Times . Retrieved8 September 2015 . ^ Connolly, Ceci (29 September 2009)."In Rationing Health Care, More Not Always Better, Experts Say" .Washington Post . Retrieved8 September 2015 . ^ Izumi, Lance (13 July 2015)."California should follow Nevada in offering education savings accounts" . San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved8 September 2015 . ^ Eggen, Dan (7 January 2010)."How interest groups behind health-care legislation are financed is often unclear" .Washington Post . Retrieved10 January 2015 . ^a b Fang, Lee (10 August 2022)."Eli Lilly Charity Finances Groups That Oppose Insulin Price Caps Under the Auspices of "Community Development" " .The Intercept . Retrieved30 August 2022 . ^ "Advisory Board" .The Heritage Foundation .Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved8 July 2024 .^ Mascaro, Lisa (29 August 2023)."Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the US Government and Replace It with Trump's Vision" .Associated Press News .Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved8 July 2024 . ^ "Sally C. Pipes" .The Heartland Institute . Retrieved19 August 2025 .^ Barbaro, Michael; Strom, Stephanie (8 September 2006)."Wal-Mart Finds an Ally in Conservatives" .New York Times . Retrieved8 September 2015 . ^ "Mind of My Own; An Interview With Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute" .The Policy Circle . 7 April 2018. Retrieved19 August 2025 .^ "Sally Pipes" .Forbes . Retrieved7 July 2021 .^ "Sally C. Pipes" .Pacific Research Institute . 26 April 2008. Retrieved7 July 2021 .^ "Clark S. Judge" .White House Writers Group . Retrieved9 April 2023 .^ "Nonprofit Explorer – Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy" .ProPublica . 16 August 2021. Retrieved12 April 2023 .^ Fang, Lee (10 August 2022)."Eli Lilly Charity Finances Groups That Oppose Insulin Price Caps Under the Auspices of "Community Development" " .The Intercept . Retrieved19 August 2025 .
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