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The Federal Budget and National Priorities sub-series (0.5 feet) documents the impact of the Reagan budget cuts on ISR and the initiatives the director and staff took to minimize those cuts. Included are interviews conducted by Patricia Gurin with business executives and foundation officers in the private sector and congressional testimony by ISR staff, as well as correspondence with congressional representatives. These records make apparent the severity of the impact of federal government funding cuts to ISR.

The Foundations, Associations, and Other Groups sub-series (1.5 feet) documents efforts to secure funding sources as well as to develop ideas for research projects. The files are primarily those of Angus Campbell, although there are some of Thomas Juster's. Worth noting are the files under National Science Foundation that include the successful proposal for a three-year-grant for $3.1 million. The grant was awarded to ISR in 1971 to provide the sustaining funds necessary to strengthen ISR as a national center for social science research, including expanding the national sampling operation, improving methods and technology, and providing better access to data.