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People (9)

  • Arthur Jensen Berkeley educational psychologist whose 1969 Harvard Educational Review article on IQ and race was inserted in the Congressional Record and who is named on the Pioneer Fund's own list of grantees.
  • Harry Weyher New York tax lawyer who was Wickliffe Draper's personal attorney from 1955, executor of his will, and president of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002.
  • J. Philippe Rushton J. Philippe Rushton was a British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario and president of the Pioneer Fund whose book Race, Evolution, and Behavior applied r/K selection theory to claim a racial hierarchy of intelligence and behavior, work the scientific community condemned as racist and methodologically flawed.
  • Jesse Helms North Carolina broadcaster and senator whose direct-mail organization was built by two Pioneer Fund directors, took Nelson Bunker Hunt's money, tried to buy CBS, and was investigated in 1986 for a leak to Pinochet's government.
  • John Tanton John Tanton was a Michigan ophthalmologist who built the modern US anti-immigration movement, founding FAIR, the Center for Immigration Studies, NumbersUSA, and the Social Contract Press, and whose WITAN memos, Pioneer Fund funding, and white-nationalist ties were documented by the New York Times and the SPLC.
  • Richard Lynn Richard Lynn was a British psychologist who promoted hereditarian claims about racial and national differences in intelligence and 'dysgenics,' ran the Pioneer Fund and the Ulster Institute for Social Research, and whose national-IQ data was repudiated as fundamentally flawed.
  • Roger Pearson British anthropologist who founded the Northern League, brought European fascist parties into the World Anti-Communist League as its chairman, published Mankind Quarterly on Pioneer Fund money, and received a letter of thanks from President Reagan.
  • Thomas F. Ellis Raleigh lawyer who ran Jesse Helms's political organization, sat on the Pioneer Fund board, took its money for his television foundation, organized a bid for CBS, and lost a Reagan nomination over his record on race.
  • Wickliffe Draper Massachusetts textile heir who founded the Pioneer Fund in 1937 and secretly sent nearly 215,000 dollars through Morgan Guaranty to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to fight the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Organizations (5)

  • Federation for American Immigration Reform Washington nonprofit founded in 1979 by John Tanton with seed money from Cordelia Scaife May, funded by the Pioneer Fund from 1982 to 1994 and by the Colcom Foundation through 2025.
  • Mankind Quarterly Mankind Quarterly is a journal founded in 1960-1961 with Pioneer Fund money to publish hereditarian race-and-intelligence research that mainstream journals rejected, widely described as a cornerstone of the scientific-racism establishment.
  • Morgan Guaranty Trust New York bank formed on April 24, 1959 by the merger of J.P. Morgan and Guaranty Trust, which carried Wickliffe Draper's anonymous gifts to Mississippi in 1963 and was succeeded by JPMorgan Chase Bank.
  • Pioneer Fund New York foundation created in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper to promote eugenics, which became the main financier of race and intelligence research in the United States and of many scholars cited in The Bell Curve.
  • Ulster Institute for Social Research London publisher and research sponsor founded by Richard Lynn, paid 609,000 dollars by the Pioneer Fund from 1990 to 1996 and the publisher of Mankind Quarterly from January 2015.

Concepts (1)

  • The Bell Curve 1994 book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray on intelligence and class whose bibliography drew on thirteen Pioneer Fund grantees and seventeen contributors to Mankind Quarterly.

Places (1)

  • North Carolina Southern state of Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, of Jesse Helms's political machine and its Pioneer Fund directors, and of the JAARS air base of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.