The Center for a Free Economy is a conservative, policy-focused nonprofit that educates the public and policymakers and advocates for free-market public policy reforms at the national, state, and local levels. Its stated work emphasizes fiscal restraint, market-based healthcare, regulatory reform, trade competitiveness, and related economic policy issues.
Fiscal and tax policy (spending restraint, tax reform), healthcare policy (market-based reforms), regulatory reform and deregulation, trade and competitiveness policy, pro-business/innovation advocacy, federalism and state-level policy reform
Primarily funded by private donors and philanthropic foundations, supplemented by grants and coalition support
Ryan Ellis (president), member of the Competitiveness Coalition, works alongside conservative free-market policy organizations and coalitions
501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit