The Castle Rock Foundation was an
American conservative foundation started in 1993 with an endowment of $36.6M from the
Adolph Coors Foundation. It ranked as
Colorado
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's 15th largest foundation by assets at the end of 2001. The foundation gathered media attention during
Pete Coors' unsuccessful 2004 Senate run, when opponents pointed at the dichotomy between the
Coors Brewing Company
The Coors Brewing Company is an American brewery and beer company based in Golden, Colorado, that was founded in 1873. In 2005, Adolph Coors Company, the holding company that owned Coors Brewing, merged with Molson, Inc. to become Molson Coor ...
's attempt to appeal to a broad audience, in particular with minorities and gay customers, while the Castle Rock Foundation was used by the Coors family to fund several conservative initiatives intent on curtailing the rights of these same customers.
The Castle Rock Foundation merged into the
Adolph Coors Foundation on November 30, 2011.
Mission
* "Promote a better understanding of the free enterprise system"
* "Preserve the principles upon which our democracy was founded to help ensure a limited role for government and the protection of individual rights as provided for in the Constitution"
* "Encourage personal responsibility and leadership"
* "Uphold traditional
American values"
References
External links
List of recipients
Political and economic research foundations based in the United States
Promise Keepers
Organizations established in 1993
1993 establishments in the United States
Conservative organizations in the United States
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