Many potential donors turned Crane down. But he was able to persuade thirty-three wealthy individuals to contribute to fund the American meeting (he himself contributed $5,000, the very amount that he had deemed too much only a few years earlier). The du Pont family and DuPont executives donated to the meeting. A small conservative foundation named the Relm Foundation gave $5,000, as did J. Howard Pew. New York financier Jeremiah Milbank (who would later play an important role in the small group of businessmen and conservative activists who drafted Senator Barry Goldwater to run for the presidency in 1964), the United Fruit Company, U.S. Steel, the Ford Motor Fund, and the Milliken Foundation (run by Roger Milliken, a textile manufacturer and major backer of Barry Goldwater, who shut down his factories entirely after a union drive won) each contributed $1,000. The Winchester Foundation contributed $3,000 at the behest of wealthy lawyer Pierre Goodrich, and the Frederick Nymeyer Foundation, run by a business consultant, gave $1,000. Smaller contributions came from Henning Prentis (of Armstrong Cork Company), Sterling Morton of Morton Salt, retired Chrysler chair of finance B. E. Hutchinson, the Beech Aircraft Corporation, and Grede Foundries, as well as foundations like the Kennametal Foundation. The total amount collected for the meeting was about $40,000.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1464