The John Locke Foundation (JLF) is a free-market think tank based in North Carolina.

JLF was co-founded by Art Pope, a North Carolina businessman active in politics.

JLF seeks a better balance between the public sector and private institutions of family, faith, community, and enterprise.

Under Donald Bryson, its current president, the foundation has become more concerned with national politics and growing threats from both the left and the right.

[10][11] According to North Carolina's WRAL news, John Locke Foundation staff are frequently quoted in news outlets across the state and appear as guests on public affairs programs, and columns by foundation staff appear in local newspapers.