What Happens to Think Tank Funding After a Global Crisis?

Here is a tweet from Hans Gutbrod of Transparify:

More on #thinktanks after the 2008 crisis. Taken together, revenues for top US #thinktanks reduced by nearly 20%, after the financial crisis. @tomhashemi @ThinkTankWatch @transparify -- @onthinktanks session kicking off shortly pic.twitter.com/ckNJPtrDiy

— Hans Gutbrod (@HansGutbrod) April 1, 2020

Think Tank Watch has learned that a number of donors are making cuts to the think tanks they fund.  Moreover, think tanks themselves have been tightening the belt and have started to announce things like salary cuts.

Here is what happened to the revenue of the Brookings Institution during the 2008 financial crisis.