Indiana Policy Review Foundation

The Indiana Policy Review Foundation (IPR) is a right-wing pressure group that is an affiliate of the State Policy Network web of such groups in all 50 states. IPR states as its mission "to marshall [sic] the best thought on governmental, economic and educational issues at the state and municipal levels" through exalting "the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property and speech," emphasizing "primacy of the individual in addressing public concerns," and recognizing "that equality of opportunity is sacrificed in pursuit of equality of results." IPR was co-founded by its board president, Byron S. Lamm, in 1989. Indiana Governor, former U.S. Representative, and former right-wing radio talk show host Mike Pence was its president from 1991 to 1994, and claimed at a campaign event in 2012 that he had helped found it.

In a speech to the Heritage Foundation in 2008, then-Representative Pence said, "I was part of, what we called the seed corn Heritage Foundation was spreading around the country in the state think tank movement. We actually called our little foundation in Indiana the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, very much as a homage to Policy Review Magazine of Heritage, and we modeled on the state level what Heritage had done before."

A small organization financially, IPR paid its executive director $100,471 of its $136,520 total revenue in 2011, while apparently no one else at the organization was paid that year. Its two "adjunct scholars," Andrea Neal and Cecil Bohanon, therefore make their income elsewhere: Neal was appointed by Governor Pence to the Indiana Board of Education in 2013, and Cecil Bohanon is a Koch-funded professor of economics at Ball State University.

Board of Directors

 * T. Craig Ladwig, Executive Director
 * Byron S. Lamm
 * Charles S. Quilhot

Scholars

 * Andrea Neal, adjunct scholar (Indiana Board of Education member and Indy Star columnist )
 * Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D., adjunct scholar (Koch-funded Professor of Economics, Ball State University)

Core Financials
 2011 :  2010 :  2009 :
 * Total Revenue: $136,520
 * Total Expenses: $134,446
 * Net Assets: $9,663
 * Total Revenue: $114,700
 * Total Expenses: $147,629
 * Net Assets: $7,589
 * Total Revenue: $153,231
 * Total Expenses: $159,179
 * Net Assets: $40,519

Contact Information
Indiana Policy Review PO Box 5166 Fort Wayne, IN 46895 Phone: (260) 417-4094 E-mail: editor@inpolicy.org