Defending a Foundation's Decision to Withdraw Money

To the Editor:

In response to William Schambra's article "Grant Makers Should Encourage Debate, Not Dictate It" (April 23), we reject the characterization that by canceling our foundation's membership grant to the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy we attempted to express our "dissatisfaction with a grant recipient's point of view ... by abruptly withdrawing financial support" following the release of the committee's