Bullitt Foundation

The Bullitt Foundation is a foundation established in 1952 by Dorothy S. Bullitt, who founded King Broadcasting Company in Seattle. Its assets in the late 1990s were in excess of US$100M [1].

According to the foundation, " The mission of The Bullitt Foundation is to protect, restore, and maintain the natural physical environment of the Pacific Northwest for present and future generations" by making grants to nonprofit organizations.

Capital Research Center rated Bullitt a 0 on a 1-10 scale where 1 is radical left, 8 is free market right [2].

As of late 2005, the board consists of: Harriet Bullitt, Katharine Bullitt, Anne Fennessy, B. Gerald Johnson, Estella Leopold, Hubert Locke, Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno, Maggie Walker, and Jim Youngren.

• http://www.bullitt.org
• Information on grant amounts from activistcash.com
• Profile at fundersnetwork.org
• Critical information from Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
• In Depth: Corporate Citizenship: Extended Family (the Bullitts) (from the Puget Sound Business Journal May 19, 2000 print edition)