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- Assets: $32,267,358 (2005)
- Grants Awarded: $2,867,670 (2005)
The Lear Family Foundation was established by Norman Lear, a longtime producer, director, comedy writer, screenwriter, political and social activist, and philanthropist who created People for the American Way and served as the Board President of the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Southern California for more than twenty years. Through his Foundation, Lear supports many leftist causes and organizations. According to a Proteus Fund spokeswoman, the Lear Family Foundation is a private program of the Proteus Fund. Of the $6,309,104 in grants received by the Lear Family Foundation in 2002, the Proteus Fund supplied fully $6,303,077. Norman Lear personally gave the other $6,027.
Among the recent recipients of Lear Family Foundation grants are: the Tides Center; the Tides Foundation; the New America Foundation; the Environmental Media Association; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Rainforest Alliance; the American Oceans Campaign; the Earth Day Network; the Economic Policy Institute; the American Farmland Trust; the Union of Concerned Scientists; Conservation International; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Friends of the Earth; the Public Media Center; the American Civil Liberties Union; Americans for Peace Now; the Center for Environmental Education; the Children's Defense Fund; Death Penalty Focus; the Earth Ways Foundation; Tree People; the Urantia Foundation; Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); Human Rights Watch; the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL); People for the American Way; Planned Parenthood; the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition; Rock the Vote; and the Violence Policy Center.
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