Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Henry J. Some of Urban's more than 100 private sponsors and funders include the Annie E. In 2013, federal government contracts provided about 54% of Urban's operating funds, private foundations another 30%, and nonprofits, corporations and corporate foundations, state and local governments, international organizations and foreign entities, individuals, and Urban's endowment the rest. Gradually, Urban's research and funding base broadened. William Gorham, former Assistant Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare, was selected as its first president and served from 1968 to 2000. Their ranks included Kermit Gordon, McGeorge Bundy, Irwin Miller, Arjay Miller, Richard Neustadt, Cyrus Vance, and Robert McNamara. Johnson hand-selected well-known economists and civic leaders to create the non-partisan, independent research organization. Johnson administration to study the nation's urban problems and evaluate the Great Society initiatives embodied in more than 400 laws passed in the prior four years. The Urban Institute was established in 1968 by the Lyndon B.
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