# Carthage Foundation The **Carthage Foundation** was one of [[Richard Mellon Scaife]]'s grantmaking vehicles, focused on public-policy research, free-market economics, and national-security and foreign-policy causes. Part of the [[Scaife-Mellon Family]] foundation complex alongside the [[Sarah Scaife Foundation]], it announced a spend-down of its endowment in 2014. > Status: **stub** — expand grant history and spend-down.