Pioneer Fund

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Pioneer Fund was an American pro white foundation that was established by J. Philippe Rushton on March 11, 1937 in order to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences. One of its first projects was to fund the distribution in US churches and schools of Erbkrank, a National Socialist film about eugenics. From 2002 until his death in October of 2012, Philippe was succeeded by Richard Lynn.

Background

The incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes. The first, modeled on the National Socialist Lebensborn breeding program, was aimed at encouraging the propagation of those "descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and/or from related stocks, or to classes of children, the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended". Its second purpose was to support academic research and the "dissemination of information, into the problem of heredity and eugenics and the problems of race betterment. The Pioneer Fund mentioned that the race betterment has always referred to the "human race" referred to earlier in the sentence. The document was amended in 1985 and the phrase changed to "human race betterment."