Transparify is an initiative that provides a global rating of the financial transparency of major think tanks.
It is funded by Open Society Foundations, an organisation set up by George Soros.
Three star ratings and lower are given to think tanks that are deemed to lack transparency.
[5] LSE IDEAS claimed to be "extremely surprising" by its one star rating, insisting its financial details are "... available online as well as in hard copy and can easily be found on the LSE IDEAS homepage".
[6] The scope of what's retrieved has expanded to see how the funding is used by these NPOs, [7] including employee salary etc.