Texas-based conservative think tank, founded 1989 in Austin, producing policy research on education, energy, criminal justice, governance and social policy.
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The Texas Public Policy Foundation is an American conservative think tank founded in 1989 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. It conducts policy research and outreach aimed at promoting liberty, personal responsibility and free enterprise in Texas and nationally. The organisation describes itself as America's largest free market state think tank and has operated for more than three and a half decades.
Its research spans public policy, education, environment and energy, governance and transparency, law and justice, and social policy. Areas of work include criminal justice reform and advocacy concerning energy and fossil fuels. Named initiatives include Right on Crime, focused on criminal justice reform, and Fueling Freedom, which advocates for fossil fuels. Education reform, particularly research supporting public school vouchers, was the foundation's original intellectual focus area.
The foundation states that it is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute. It does not accept government funds, nor contributions intended to influence research outcomes, and emphasises academically sound research. Its presence is centred in Austin and across Texas, with work extending to the United States as a whole.
