Transparify Rating Form

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We are trying to understand (and document) how transparent think tank budgets are on where their funds come from. For this your rating is extremely valuable. Essentially, you are an interested citizen, trying to understand who pays for the think tank, and what it does. You should not spend more than 10-12 minutes on trying to find this information.

For the list of think tanks, check the separate list sent to you in the Excel sheet. Note that the financial information typically is under "About".. IMPORTANT: in case you don't find the information elsewhere, definitely look for the annual report. In many cases, this is where the information is.

Thanks for your diligent work on this -- we hope it will improve transparency for many institutions!

Funding Transparency

In this section we examine whether we can find out where a think tank's money comes from. As mentioned, look at the website to try and find this information now.

Your Surname *

...so that we can hold the evaluations apart, once several people do them!

Name of Think Tank *

Since we are putting several think tanks in this list, please enter the name of the think tank as you received it -- you can copy from Excel. Watch the spelling, so that we can easily sort the spreadsheet later.

Source for Funding Information

Copy the link with the source of funding info from the think tank website, so that we have the source in hand.

Ease of Access

How easy was it to find this information?

Fast, aggregated, up to 6 clicks (and some scrolling)

Accessible, but disaggregated in several places 7-11 clicks

Hard to find, roughly 12-18 clicks

Obscure, requires detective work, 19 clicks or more

Not there at all...

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Funding Transparency: your assessment on how clear it is where money is coming from? *

How do you assess the transparency of income for this think tank? (Note: if much income is membership based, we do not need every member to be listed. We are primarily interested in contributions above 5000 USD)

0 Stars, no relevant info

1 Star: some donors listed, but not exhaustive or systematic

2 Star: all or many donors listed, but no or little financial information

3 Star: all or most donors listed in 2 or 3 broad contribution brackets [i.e. "5.000 to 15.000 USD, the following donors"]

4 Star: all donors above $5000 listed in 4+ precise funding brackets, anonymous donors no more than 15% (if membership base: precise number of members)

5 Star: all donors listed and clearly identifying funding amount for, and source of, particular projects

Mark if information particularly inconsistent

Other:

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Information About Organization

Here some information that will make it easy for us to contact the think tanks.

Name of Director

With the listed titles, what is the name of the executive director of the organization? (Say, Professor Evelyn Feelgood.) Specifically look for executive director, or president.

Contact Email

What is the contact email on the site? We want the generic contact address, such as "info@thinktank.org".

Time

Roughly, how many minutes did this take you?

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