Minnesota Free Market Institute
<ul style="font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square outside none;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">State Policy Network</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is an umbrella organization and grant maker for conservative think tanks across the country, more than a dozen of which signed the anti-CRA letter. According to a </span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Funding#cite_ref-2010funders_5-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-color: rgb(48, 232, 189); font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; text-underline-position: under;">document</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> obtained and described by the Center for Media and Democracy, as of 2010 their funders included AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable. Tax records show that they group also received annual support from NCTA for their tech policy working group from 2012 to 2015. Organizations funded by the State Policy Network that signed the letter include the </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Goldwater Institute, John Locke Foundation, Montana Policy Institute, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alaska Policy Forum, and several more. </span></span></font></li></ul>