Pacific Research Institute should not be confused with Pacific Institute of Public Policy.
| Pacific Research Institute | |
| Full Name: | Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy |
| Native Name Lang: | en |
| Abbreviation: | PRI |
| Founders: |
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| Purpose: | public policy analysis |
| Tax Id: | 94-2528433 |
| Status: | 501(c)(3) |
| Headquarters: |
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| Location City: | Sacramento, CA |
| Location Country: | US |
| Location City2: | Pasadena, CA |
| Location Country2: | US |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Sally C. Pipes |
| Leader Title2: | Chairman |
| Leader Name2: | Clark S. Judge |
| Revenue: | $5,623,603 |
| Revenue Year: | 2020 |
| Expenses: | $4,448,062 |
| Expenses Year: | 2020 |
The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government.[1] PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher and a San Francisco businessman James North.[2] [3] The organization has an office in Sacramento California and their headquarters office in Pasadena California.[4]
The organization is active in the policy areas of education, economics, health care, the environment, and water supply.[5] [6] It operates the Center for California's Future, which has a goal of "reinvigorating California's entrepreneurial, self-reliant traditions" and the Laffer Center, which is "focused on educating people on free-markets and supply-side economics."[7]
From 1996 through 2009, the organization published an annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, which tracked environmental trends worldwide. PRI started the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a New York-based think tank focusing on health policy.[8]
In 2022, Pipes opposed federal efforts to cap copayments at $35 for insulin, and PRI opposed plans by California to back generic manufacturing of the drug.
PRI is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025,[9] a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.[10]
Sally C. Pipes has been president of the institute since 1991.[11] [12] She writes a regular column for Forbes.com, focusing on health care in the United States.[13] In 2008 she founded the Benjamin Rush Institute as a conservative association for medical students with 20 chapters at medical schools across America. She is originally from Canada and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. She opposes single-payer health care systems.[14]
The current chairman of the board of trustees Clark S. Judge (since 2005) is also a cofounder of the White House Writers Group.[15]
PRI's total revenues in 2020 were $5.6 million, according to ProPublica