the foundation has funded a wide range of interventions, many controversial, including oregon's open primary ballot, planned parenthood, the guttmacher institute, the network of abortion funds, the center of reproductive rights, education reform, efforts to end public pensions, a data-first approach to criminal justice, and improving reproducibility and transparency in science through the funding of open science and metascience. the organization has also been described as "another example of billionaire donors becoming ever more sophisticated about using private wealth to influence public policy—wielding exponentially more power in american life than ordinary citizens of more modest means."