The Heritage Foundation

Orientation: conservative; its president since 2021, Kevin Roberts, has described its role as institutionalising Trumpism. Funding: individual donors and foundations; Heritage says it takes no government money of any kind and does no contract research. Its signature product is the transition blueprint. Mandate for Leadership, published in 1981 for the incoming Reagan administration, ran to more than 2,000 recommendations, and its descendant Project 2025, published in 2023, set out a plan for a second Trump term with a personnel database and draft executive orders alongside it. Since late 2025 it has lost a stream of staff after Roberts defended Tucker Carlson, so check who wrote a paper as well as the logo on it.