# Scaife Family Foundation One of several foundations controlled by the Mellon-Scaife fortune, which under [[Richard Mellon Scaife]] became a cornerstone of conservative movement infrastructure. The Scaife foundations — including the [[Sarah Scaife Foundation]] — provided early and sustained funding to the [[Heritage Foundation]], [[Cato Institute]], and dozens of other organizations that built the intellectual and institutional framework of the modern right. Together with the Bradley, Olin, and Koch philanthropies, the Scaife network constitutes the [[Dark Money]] architecture that Jane Mayer documented in her book of the same name.