Abstract
AbstractResearch on foundations public policy influence, traditionally, focuses on policy reform. Largely unexplored is the influence that philanthropic funding has on recipient communities. Unlike previous research, this study uses a newly compiled dataset on immigration-related giving to study how funding for political citizenship services, integration services, and government-related advocacy influences the identification of deportable immigrants across the continental United States. The quantitative analysis indicates foundations exert indirect influence within local immigration policy outputs through the use of targeted philanthropic grants. However, the effect of the indirect influence depends upon the policy activities receiving funding. Philanthropic foundations’ providing funding for political citizenship and integration services lead to decreases in immigration enforcement. While funding for government-related advocacy can help increase immigration enforcement, it can also help address issues of equity in immigration enforcement. Interviews with foundation grantees provide further insights into how the funding of these policy activities can alter the relationship between the philanthropic community and the government agencies implementing U.S. immigration policy.
Highlights
Research on foundations public policy influence, traditionally, focuses on policy reform
What influence does philanthropic funding have on local immigration policy outputs? as the U.S federal government provides limited to no funding for immigrants (De Graauw and Bloemraad 2017), might the effect of philanthropic funding alter the relationship between the philanthropic sector and government?
Based on the analysis of the three different patterns of immigration-related funding, the results provide support for the hypothesis that philanthropic funding is indirectly related to policy outputs
Summary
Research on foundations public policy influence, traditionally, focuses on policy reform. Research on philanthropic foundations provides in-depth case studies detailing the roles and strategies used to achieve policy reform (Anheier and Daly 2006; Anheier and Hammack 2010; Dowie 2002; Fleishman 2007; Nielsen 2001; Tompkins-Stange 2016) This line of literature leaves unaddressed how funding influences local policy outputs within the communities receiving foundations’ grant funding. This research contributes to the literature by examining how grant dollars influence the local public policy process Another contribution of this research is the testing of the theoretical arguments within the punitive context of U.S immigration policy using a newly collected dataset on foundation grantmaking related to immigrant services paired with Secure Communities immigration enforcement outputs, i.e. total identified deportable immigrants
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