The State Policy Network (SPN) is an umbrella group of right-wing think tanks across the country.

The Indiana Policy Review Foundation (IPRF) is SPNs cookie-cutter think tank in Indiana. While IPRF claims to be focused on issues important to the people of Indiana, it actually pushes an agenda dictated by its national right-wing funders and partners.

IPRF has a long history of pushing so-called right-to-work measures in reports and op-eds that argue that right-to-work states have higher job creation, a claim which has been proven false by the Economic Policy Institute. Several of IPRFs op-eds and reports focused on Indianas most recent right-to-work bill in 2012, which shares exact language with an ALEC model and became law in February 2012.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence has a history of working with the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, serving as IPRF's president from 1991 to 1993.

IPRF's agenda aims to restrict Hoosier workers' collective bargaining rights. IPRF is also a longtime supporter of so-called "Right to Work" legislation, which tends to result in lower wages.

The current leaders of IPRF around among Pence's biggest supporters, as IPRF President Byron Lamm has contributed at least $17,800 to Pence's congressional and gubernatorial campaigns over the years, while IPRF board member Charles Quilhot contributed over $4,000 to Pence's congressional campaigns between 2001 and 2010.

IPRF has published articles that oppose the minimum wage, arguing that there should be no wage standard at all for Indiana workers.

While most of IPRF's funding sources are unknown due to the organization's IRS status and IPRF's refusal to disclose its donors, the identities of the few known IPRF donors reveal that the organization is funded by out-of-state right-wing special interests:
FUNDER The Roe Foundation Jaquelin Hume Foundation JM Foundation Donors Capital Fund BASED IN South Carolina California New York Virginia AMOUNT $271,000 $43,000 $15,000 $10,000 YEARS 19982011 20042007 2001 2009

IPRF has worked to stop federal healthcare reform that would provide access to affordable healthcare for Indiana families and reduce uninsured Hoosiers by 55 percent.

IPRF supports taking money out of Indiana's public education system by privatizing public schools through vouchers and charter schools.

The Indiana Policy Review Foundation, accessed 8/29/2013

- Political Journalist Charles Mahtesian on IPRF [Governing Magazine, 12/1995]