Hoover Institution: mission, leadership and finances

What it does

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy research center and archive on the campus of Stanford University in California. It is part of Stanford and has no separate Form 990, so no IRS figures are shown on this page. Its fellows study economics, national security, history, governance and public policy, and it holds a large archive on twentieth-century political history.

Hoover Institution is listed here in the category "Think tanks". A listing on 4conservative.com describes an organization; it is not an endorsement of it or of its positions.

History

Herbert Hoover, a Stanford graduate and later president, founded the library in 1919 to collect documents on the First World War and its aftermath. It grew into a major archive and, from the 1960s, into a policy research center. It publishes the Hoover Digest and hosts the Uncommon Knowledge interview program.

Hoover Institution is a think tank. It is headquartered in Stanford, California. Like other organizations in this collection, it is described here from its own published material and from public records, and the facts on this page are limited to what those sources state.

Leadership and funding

Hoover is funded by gifts, endowment income and activity inside Stanford University, and its finances are reported as part of Stanford's filings rather than its own. Stanford owns the institution; a board of overseers advises on its direction.

Hoover files no separate Form 990, so this page shows no IRS finance figures. The figures describe a single tax year and can differ sharply from year to year; check the filing itself and the organization's own site for the current picture.

Where it stands

Hoover describes its mission as securing and safeguarding peace, improving the human condition, and limiting government intrusion into the lives of individuals. Its fellows hold a range of views, and it is generally described as center-right.

These summaries reflect the organization's own stated mission and publicly known activities as of the date below; they are neutral descriptions, not evaluations. Related organizations on this site include American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute.