Piper Fund
The Piper Fund is a grant-making arm of the Proteus Fund, established in 1997 as a funder collaborative to support campaign finance reform efforts at the state level.
About
Piper Fund concerns itself with campaign finance reform, regarding money as the root of all evil in democratic politics.[1]This Fund gave $5 million from 1999-2003 to lobbying organizations and researchers dedicated to bringing about such reform.
The Piper Fund is financed by the Arca Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Joyce Foundation, the McKay Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Solidago Foundation, the Stern Family Fund, the Columbia Foundation, the Changing Horizons Fund, the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, the Tides Foundation, the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the JEHT Foundation, the Lear Family Foundation, Working Assets, Funding Exchange, and many more.