No institutional funding

The Gun Facts project receives zero money from agenda institutions (and to date no funding from non-aligned or government agencies either). Nor do we ask them for money.

We have been offered such money – from both national organizations and from state-level outfits affiliated with national organizations – and we turned down that money … which really hurts because such money is significantly more than we current receive in donations.

We do this because we are the primary (perhaps only) non-ideological, independent gun policy research outfit … and we want to keep it that way.

All donations come from fans

100% of Gun Facts donations come from people who like our work. We hold an annual (more or less) fundraising event (average donation is about $20). We also encourage people to become sustaining donors and give a little each month (average monthly donation $10).

One oddball note

On three separate occasions were received unsolicited checks from county-level social groups who definitely had opinions about guns and their control. The average of these donations was about $100. Given that they were local groups, and one was unaffiliated with any state or national organization, we decided this was not “influence” money and banked the small change.