Here are the top ten:
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR): 1.3 citations per $10,000
- Economic Policy Institute (EPI): 0.94
- American Enterprise Institute (AEI): 0.47
- Cato Institute: 0.35
- New America Foundation (NAF): 0.31
- Brookings: 0.27
- Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE): 0.26
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP): 0.25
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): 0.25
- Center for American Progress (CAP): 0.24
CEPR was co-founded in 1999 by economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, and approximately 80 percent of CEPR's funding comes from grants made by foundations.
Foundation support in 2011 included:
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Arca Foundation
- Atlantic Philanthropies
- Ford Foundation
- Moriah Foundation
- National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI)
- Open Society Foundations
- Public Welfare Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Rockefeller Family Fund
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Sloan Foundation
- Streisand Foundation