The names of corporate front groups are carefully chosen to mask the real interests behind them but they can usually be identified by their funding sources, membership and who controls them. Some front groups are quite blatant, working out of the offices of public relations firms and having staff of those firms on their boards of directors. For example:

• the Council for Solid Waste Solutions shares office space with the Society of the Plastic Industry, Inc and
• the Oregon Lands Coalition works out of the offices of the Associated Oregon Industries.

In Australia, the Forest Protection Society shares the same postal address as the National Association of Forest Industries, (NAFI), It's Executive Director was a founding member of the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI).