- US government entities include: US State Department, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines.
- Large corporations: Airbus, Chevron, Google, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Southern Company, Thomson Reuters, BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Northrup Grumman, Panasonic, SAIC, United Technologies, Barclays Capital, Coca-Cola Co., ConocoPhillips, ENI, FedEx, McAfee, Microsoft, Target, Boeing, Bloomberg, Caterpillar, Daimler, Gallup, HSBC, Dow Chemical, Comcast, Rolls-Royce, Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.
- Foreign governments: United Arab Emirates (UAE; which gives the think tank at lesast $1 million), Kingdom of Bahrain, City of London, Temasek Holdings (Singapore), Embassy of Hungary, Ministry of Defense of Finland, Embassy of Latvia, Estonian Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Defense of Georgia, Ministry of Defense of Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Slovakia, Embassy of Czech Republic.
- Other think tanks and think tankers: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Nicolas Veron of Bruegel (formerly at PIIE), Anne-Marie Slaughter (head of New America Foundation), Michele Flournoy (head of Center for a New American Security), Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution.
- Other notable entities: UCLA, Georgetown University Law Center, The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Scowcroft Group, Edelman, McLarty Associates, Istanbul Stock Exchange.
Here is a Think Tank Watch story from 2013 about Atlantic Council revealing its donors after Chuck Hagel, then-Chairman of Atlantic Council, had to reveal who funded his think tank during his nomination process for Defense Secretary.
The most interesting thing from the latest donor disclosures is probably the number of outside think tanks and think tankers who donate to Atlantic Council. And just like for other think tanks, colleges and universities donate to Atlantic Council.
Below is the full list that Atlantic Council has disclosed, lumped into categories by donation amount:
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ǂ denotes a sponsor of the 2014 Wroclaw Global Forum
◊ denotes a sponsor of the 2014 Energy and Economic Summit
† deceased
$1,000,000 and above |
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| Adrienne Arsht Bahaa Hariri United Arab Emirates |
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$250,000 - $999,999 |
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| Airbusǂ BMCE Bank Bromak EOOD Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Chevron◊ Corporate Commercial Bank Hunton & Williams Kingdom of Bahrain George Lund MNG Holding Company, Inc.◊ Dinu Patriciu Brent Scowcroft Smith Richardson Foundation Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S.◊ US State Department |
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$100,000 - $249,000 |
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| Actidea Anonymous Atlantic Advocacy Fund Inc. Thomas L. Blair Bob Woodruff Foundation Central Europe Energy Partners AISBL (CEEP)◊ Cheniere Energy, Inc.◊ Chopivsky Family Foundation Defense Ministry of Norway Dentons LLP◊ Genel Enerji◊ Googleǂ Istanbul Stock Exchange◊ Lockheed Martin Corporationǂ |
Macarthur Foundation Alexander Mirtchev OCP S.A. Ploughshares Fund Raytheonǂ Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. SAAB Southern Companyǂ TECRO The Morganti Group Thomson Reuters Ukrainian World Congress Olin Wethington |
$50,000 - $99,000 |
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| ACE Group African Rainbow Minerals Tewodros Ashenafi Audiovisuelle International Bank of America Corporation BOTAS - Boru Hatlari Ile Petrol Tasima Anonim Sirk◊ BP◊ Calik Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.◊ Michael Calvey CEZ Group◊ City of London DRS Technologies, Inc. ETH Zurich ExxonMobil ◊ Julie Finley Ronald M. Freeman Frontera Resources Robert S. Gelbard General Electric ◊ Infosys Peter Kovarcik† Krauss Maffei Wegmann John Macomber McGraw Hill Financial |
Meads International, Inc.ǂ Georgette Mosbacher Northrop Grumman Corporation Ahmet Oren Panasonic Corporation of North America W. DeVier Pierson PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Republic of Cyprus RTI International Metals, Inc. SAIC SICPA S.A. Skoll Global Imperatives Standard Chartered Bank Temasek Holdings James C. Temerty Textron The Blackstone Group Tishman Speyer Properties LP TPAO◊ Transatlantic Policy Network Tupras◊ United Technologies Corporationǂ Zorlu Enerji◊ |
$25,000 - $49,999 |
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| Allianz SE◊ American Water Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ Barclays Capital Victor L. Chu Coca-Cola Company ConocoPhillips Steven and Roberta Denning DEPA Public Gas Corporation of Greece◊ Markus Dohle Conrado Dornier Edelman Ekkou VP SRL◊ Embassy of Hungary ENI FedEx Corporation Fluor Corporation Garanti Bank◊ C. Boyden Gray Grupa Lotos S.A. Grupo Salinas Guggenheim Partners, LLC Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.◊ James L. Jones, Jr. Leidos, Inc. LexisNexis Group Lucky Cement Limited Mannheim LLC MBDA Incorporated |
McAfee, Inc. McLarty Associates Microsoft Corporation Ministry of Defence of Finland Mol Group◊ Moroccan-American Cultural Center MVM Magyar Villamos Muvek Zrt.◊ William H. Nixon Novartis Corporation OMV Petrol Ofisi A.S.◊ Andrew Prozes Publicis Groupe Renaissance Strategic Advisors Jeffrey A. Rosen SAS Scowcroft Group Alan J. Spence Stfa Yatirim Holding A.S.◊ Target Corporation Thales USA The Boeing Company Thermo Fisher Scientific Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG◊ Turkerler Holding, A.S.◊ US Air Force US Army US Chamber of Commerce US Marines |
$10,000 - $24,999 |
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| Odeh Aburdene Accuron Technologies Limited Baker & McKenzie LLPǂ Bloomberg L.P. Caterpillar Inc. Center For Strategic & International Studies John Chapoton C. Diane Christensen CISCO - Basic Solutions Corp. Daimler DBS Bank Deloitte Services Embassy of Latvia Estonian Ministry of Defence Alan H. Fleischmann Futurewei Technologies, Inc. Gallup, Inc. Sherri Goodman Gokhan Gundogdu Stephen J. Hadley Ian Hague Brian C. McK. Henderson |
Henry Schein, Inc. Mary L. Howell HSBC Instititue of International Education Franklin D. Kramer Loews Corporation Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg Arnold L. Punaro Rockefeller & Co. Charles O. Rossotti Shearman & Sterling, LLP Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Syngenta Corporation TD International LLC The Dow Chemical Company The Soufan Group Enzo Viscusi Water Standard Company LLC John C. Whitehead† |
$5,000 - $9,999 |
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| Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC Aspen Healthcare Services British High Commission CH2M Hill Charles F. Wald Comcast Corporation Corsair Capital Dov S. Zakheim DynCorp Ellen O. Tauscher Frederick Kempe and Pamela Meyer Globis Capital Partners Harlan K. Ullman Jan M. Lodal Jay Walker John Gastright Judith A. Miller Litespeed Management, LLC Michael V. Hayden Ministry of Defence of Georgia Ministry of Defense of Montenegro |
Movalis New Mountain Capital Paul Twomey Peter J. Tanous Republic of Macedonia Ministry of Foreign Affairs Robert Hormats Robert M. Kimmitt Rodel Charitable Foundation of DE Rolls-Royce of North America John Megrue Semnani Family Foundation The Asan Institute For Policy Studies The Hand Foundation The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Thomas Nides Thomas J. Edelman VT Systems William E. Mayer Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger |
$1,000 - $4,999 |
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| John R. Allen David D. Aufhauser Elizabeth F. Bagley Sheila C. Bair Base Per Altezza Peter Behr Margaret Bennett Bertelsmann Foundation Susan M. Blaustein Julia Chang Bloch Harold Brown R. Nicholas Burns Byron Callan Capital Alpha Partners, LLC James E. Cartwright Peter Cunniffe Cyber Conflict Studies Association Ivo H. Daalder Paula J. Dobriansky Christopher J. Dodd Stuart E. Eizenstat Embassy of Slovakia Embassy of the Czech Republic eNGO Network on CCS Formiche Lawrence P. Fisher II Michele Flournoy Paul R. S. Gebhard Georgetown University Law Center Rita E. Hauser Robert Hunter Timothy Adams George A. Joulwan Stephen R. Kappes |
Zalmay M. Khalilzad Henry A. Kissinger Geraldine S. Kunstadter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Richard L. Lawson Lotus International Magellan Aerospace Corporation Wendy W. Makins Eric D.K. Melby Franklin C. Miller George E. Moose Virginia Mulberger Joseph S. Nye Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum Raul Perea-Henze Thomas R. Pickering Pioneer Natural Resources Quincy Jones Productions, Inc. Kirk A. Radke Joseph W. Ralston Nanako Sakai Sandia National Laboratories Anne-Marie Slaughter Walter B. Slocombe Paula Stern John S. Tanner Texas Water Recycling Association The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation UCLA Philip Verveer Mary Yates |
Up to $999 |
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| Michael Allen Kurt Amend Daniel J. Arbess Stuart Archer Cresencio S. Arcos Victor H. Ashe Noris D. Balabanian Robert M. Beecroft J.D. Bindenagel Martin Bollinger Arnaud de Borchgrave† Christopher Bott James Bowen David Buffaloe Theodore Hopkins Bunzel Edward J. Burger, Jr. Keith Ross Butler CD Global Strategies Group LLC Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Sandra L. Charles Frances D. Cook James De Francia Rob de Wijk Mary B. DeRosa Joseph J. Drach, Jr. Glenn D. Dunmire William Ebert Pantea Fiuzi Farkhan Francis Finelli Lucy Reilly Fitch Randall Fort Andrew D. Frank Laurie Fulton Alice Gast Glenn Gerstell Carol Giacomo Richard W. Graber James Greene Michael Hanna Harry Harding, Jr. David P. Harris Scott Harris† Steven Hefter E.C. Michael Higgins Jeffrey Hoffman James R. Hogg Barry B. Hughes Brian A. Hunter Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science Bobby R. Inman Jason Jarrell Roger Kirk Kurt J. Klingenberger Martin Klingst Steven B. Klinsky Stefan Kornelius Tom C. Korologos Matthew Lauer Eric L. Lewis Malcolm Lovell, Jr. Clay Lowery Gerhard Mally Ronald Marks Margarita Mathiopoulos Jules Frank Mermoud |
Mark Meyer R. Garrett Mitchell Michael Moore Powell Moore David Morey Dambisa Moyo Varoges Muradian Terence Murphy Eugene L. Nardelli Sandra Navidi Mark Nihols William A. Nitze Norman F. Oblon Eileen O'Connor Peter Pace Sally Painter Walter Parchomenko Jesper Pedersen Yannis Perlepes Mary Ann Peters Philip Pilevsky William A. Plapinger Joseph A. Presel John Price Pamela Quanrud Henrik Fogh Rasmussen Charles Ries Christina Rocca Zvi S. Rome Ann E. Rondeau Daniel A. Russell Steven E. Schmidt Mark Schwendler Andrew Shapiro Stephen Shapiro Matthew T. Sherman Cenk Sidar Jeffrey M. Siegal Pamela H. Smith Daniel Speckhard Solveig B. Spielmann Walter E. Stadtler James Steinberg Patrick Stephenson Eric Stewart Francesco Stipo Nigel J. Sutton Frank A. Tapparo John F. Tefft Jay Timmons Olesya Tkacheva Mamuka Tsereteli USAID Colombia Marten H.A. van Heuven David Van Buren Nicolas Veron Samuel S. Visner Mark Vlasic Don Wallace, Jr. Leigh Warner Ruth Wedgwood James Wildman Samuel Zega |
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