Reason Foundation is a non-profit, libertarian public policy think tank that conducts research and advocacy promoting free markets, limited government, individual liberty, privatization and market-based public services; it also publishes Reason magazine and related media.
Free-market economic policy, privatization and public–private partnerships, deregulation, transportation and infrastructure policy (including tolling and P3s), education choice, criminal justice reform, civil liberties, government transparency and pension reform.
Primarily funded by donations from individuals and foundations, grants and corporate contributions, and revenue from publications and consulting/projects.
Reason magazine and Reason media projects; founder and longtime senior fellow Robert W. Poole Jr.; frequent collaboration with other free-market/libertarian organizations such as the Cato Institute and Institute for Justice.
Non-profit public policy think tank (501(c)(3))