UNDUE INFLUENCE

MacArthur Foundation

Undue Influence by Ron Arnold

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
140 S Dearborn St Rm 1100
Chicago, IL 60603

Phone: (312) 726-8000
Fax: (312) 920-6258
TDD: (312) 920-6285
Website: http://www.macfound.org/
email: 4answers@macfound.org

Assets Amount, 2000: $4,479,153,951
Expenditures: $233,320,150
Qualifying Distribution: $198,205,781
Total Giving: $164,022,738
Grants Amount: $149,772,684  Number of Grants: 1,498
Highest Grant: $13,500,000  Lowest Grant: $30
Average Grant: 5000-100000
Loan Amount: $6,500,000  Number of Loans: 8
Matching Gifts Amount: $2,580,884  NO. OF MATCHING GIFTS: 637
Scholarship Amount: $11,669,170  NO. OF SCHOLARSHIPS: 410

EIN: 23-7093598
Incorporated in Illinois 1970, exempt since 1971

The Foundation was created by John D. MacArthur (1897-1978), who developed and owned Bankers Life and Casualty Company and other businesses, as well as considerable property in Florida and New York. His wife Catherine (1909-1981) held positions in many of these companies and served as a director of the Foundation.

Funds attack group in the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign with money from investments in oil and gas companies other than Exxon Mobil:

MacArthur Foundation Investments in oil and gas companies:

  • Knightsbridge Tank Ltd.                                8,300      $183,558.25

  • Oryx Energy Co.                                           38,300      $528,083.75

  • Parker Drilling Co.                                        43,900      $146,306.25

  • Swift Energy Co                                            34,700      $255,812.50

  • Imperial Oil Ltd                                            33,500       $538,093.75

  • Transcanada Pipeline Ltd                                 500           $7,375.00

  • Westcoast Energy Inc.                               26,100       $518,737.50

  • Calenergy Inc.                                             22,100       $786,593.75

  • DTE Energy                                                   32,800    $1,412,450.00

  • Energy E. Corp Com                                   33,900    $1,915,350.00

  • Entergy Corp New Com                             46,300    $1,441,087.50

  • DTE Energy                                                    4,200        $180,863.00

  • Energy East Corp                                             600          $33,900.00

  • Entergy Corporation                                       200             $6,225.00

  • Ethyl Corp                                                      2,100          $11,813.00

  • Forest Oil Corp                                              3,900          $33,150.00

  • Imperial Oil Ltd                                             4,300          $69,069.00

  • Offshore Logistics                                            100            $1,188.00

  • Tesoro Petroleum Co                                   9,300        $112,763.00

  • Transcanada Pipeline Ltd                            8,200       $120,950.00

  • Westcoast Energy Inc.                                3,300         $65,588.00

  • Anadarko Petroleum                                    3,400       $104,975.00

  • Atlantic Richfield                                           1,500         $98,063.00

  • Atmos Energy Corp                                      3,400       $109,650.00

  • Coho Energy                                                11,900         $33,469.00

  • Duke Energy Corp                                         1,200         $76,875.00

  • EEX Corp                                                         5,199         $36,393.00

  • Forcenergy Inc.                                         1  2,500        $32,813.00

  • Marken Energy                                             24,700        $49,400.00

  • Interstate Energy                                          2,000        $64,500.00

  • MCN Energy Group                                         4,300        $81,969.00

  • Occidental Petroleum                                   4,600         $77,625.00

  • Ocean Energy Inc                                          3,900         $24,863.00

  • Oryx Energy Co.                                            4,400          $59,125.00

  • Pennzoil-Quaker State                                 1,700          $25,075.00

  • Pennzoil Co                                                     1,700          $27,731.00

  • Snyder Oil Corp                                              3,100          $41,269.00

  • Teco Energy  Inc                                            7,500        $211,406.00

  • Petroleosicia Esp                                         15,000        $557,888.26

  • PVTPL Petroliam Nasional Berhad Ser   770,000        $629,937.00

  • PVTPL Paiton Energy Fdg                         785,000        $160,850.00

  • Calenergy Inc.                                            410,000        $455,259.90

  • TN Gas Pipeln Co                                        555,000         $555,680.45

  • Union Pacific Fuels                                     395,000        $398,143.55

  • Mobile Energy Svcs Co                              596,184        $178,855.06

  • PVTPL Oil Pur Co                                         734,655        $704,570.67

  • CalTex Australia NPV Sedol                          6,100          $14,965.74

  • Woodside Petroleum NPV                             9,300          $41,640.34

  • Alberta Energy Co                                         2,503           $53,775.39

  • Anderson Exploration                                   3,418           $30,931.12

  • Gulf Canada Res                                             3,800          $11,009.11

  • Numac Energy Inc                                         3,300             $7,197.27

  • Pancanadian Petro Ltd.                                3,600           $40,546.88

  • Petro-Canada Euro                                        6,000        $634,476.56

  • Philip Services Corp                                       1,800                $527.34

  • Poco Petro Ltd                                                3,553           $29,608.33

  • Ranger Oil Com NPV                                      3,021           $13,374.22

  • Renaissance Energy Com                             1,800          $20,449.22

  • Shell Can Ltd                                                   1,848          $28,032.81

  • Talisman Energy In Com                               1,200           $21,054.69

  • Transcanada Pipeline Ltd                            10,186        $148,877.41

  • S/Petrochem H'CNYi                                   440,000         $39,756.04

  • Shanghai Diesel B'CNYI                              208,580         $25,029.60

  • Primagaz FRF                                                       730          $68,259.96

  • Contigas DT Energi Ord                                   1,470          $98,052.95

  • Mobil Oil Ghana NPV                                        3,650           $26,517.09

  • Swire pacific A'HKD                                       16,000           $71,664.14

  • Swire Pacific B'HKDO                                      50,000          $33,237.60

  • Magyar Olaj-Es Gaz Huf1000                          3,846        $105,754.06

  • Primagaz Hungaria                                           5,469          $64,648.89

  • So Petrochemical Inds                                   25,100          $75,327.50

  • Arabian Oil Co                                                    3,300          $42,449.47

  • KOA Oil Co JPY                                                   4,000          $11,843.97

  • Nippon Oil Co.                                                  24,000          $83,829.79

  • Nissan Diesel Mtr Jpy                                       9,000           $16,196.81

  • Teikoku Oil Co. Jpy                                            6,000          $17,919.15

  • Royal Dutch Petrol NLG                                   52,337    $2,807,507.59

  • Petroleum Geo Svs                                               708             $9,013.78

  • ADR Oil Co Lukoil                                               1,000            $15,500.00

  • Petroleos (CIA ESP)                                         4,250          $158,067.77

  • Burmah Castrol Ord                                         7,601          $106,757.34

  • Premier Oil Ord                                                41,000           $10,658.43

  • Petrol Brasileiros Pref                              1,252,533          $142,021.12

  • ADR Oil Co Lukoil                                                   600              $1,950.00

  • Statoil Cusip                                               3,800,000      $3,888,476.00

  • Nippon Oil Co.                                                431,000      $1,505,433.26

  • Nisshin Oil Mills                                                85,000          $164,804.98

  • Magyar Olaj-Es Gaz Huf                                   7,153          $197,422.80

  • ADR Oil Co Lukoil                                             10,650          $165,075.00

  • BP Amoco Ord                                                  79,095      $1,181,082.52

  • British Energy Ord                                           86,300         $758,360.37

  • Petrol Brasileiros Spon                                   37,800         $4

 

Officers and Directors:
* indicate members of the executive committee
John E. Corbally*, Chair.; Elizabeth Jane McCormack*, Vice-Chair.; Jonathan F. Fanton*, Pres.; Arthur Sussman, V.P. and Secy.; Lyn Hutton, V.P. and C.F.O; William E. Lowry, V.P., Human Resources and Admin.; Joshua J. Mintz, V.P. and Genl. Counsel; Julia M. Stasch, V.P. Progs., Human and Community Devel.; Mitchel B. Wallerstein, V.P. Progs., Global Security and Sustainability; Woodward A. Wickham, V.P., Public Affairs and General Prog.; Marc P. Yanchura, Treas.; Sharon R. Burns, C.I.O.; Lloyd Axworthy; John Seeley Brown; Drew Saunders Days III; Robert E. Denham; William H. Foege, M.D.; James M. Furman; Murray Gell-Mann; Jamie S. Gorelick; Mary Graham; Alan M. Hallene; Paul Harvey ; John P. Holdren; Hon. Shirley Mount Hufstedler; Sara Lawrence Lightfoot; Margaret E. Mahoney; William McLean, Sr. Managing Dir., Asset and Invest Management; Mario J. Molina; George A. Ranney, Jr.; Thomas Theobold
Staff: 223
 

2001 Grants for "Conservation and Sustainable Development"

CLIMATE CHANGE

Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington, D.C. 
$75,000 in support of a state roundtable on global climate change (over two years).

Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C. 
$300,000 in support of a collaborative effort to maintain momentum for strong U.S. action and international cooperation to address global warming (over two years).

Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest, Chicago, Illinois 
$150,000 in support of a global warming initiative in the Midwest (over two years).

Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. 
$300,000 in support of a collaborative effort to maintain momentum for strong U.S. action and international cooperation to address global warming (over two years).

Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
$300,000 in support of a collaborative effort to maintain momentum for strong U.S. action and international cooperation to address global warming (over two years).

World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. 
$300,000 in support of a collaborative effort to maintain momentum for strong U.S. action and international cooperation to address global warming (over two years). 

 

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