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Non-profit
The Sixteen Thirty Fund (sometimes styled “1630 Fund”) is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy organization founded in 2008. 1 Sixteen Thirty Fund often operates alongside its charitable “sister” nonprofit New Venture Fund, which
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Non-profit
The Lagrant Foundation focuses on increasing the number of ethnic minorities in communications fields. 100 The Lagrant Foundation provides scholarships, internships, career development workshops, professional development, and mentors to African American, Native American, Asian
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Non-profit
Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights and Reconciliations (AIRR) is a left-of-center immigrant-advocacy group supporting illegal immigrants in Kansas and Missouri. AIRR seeks to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants. 113
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Political Party/527
Arizona for Abortion Access PAC (AAAPAC) was formed to support the passage of Arizona Proposition 139 in 2024 which protects abortion access until viability of the fetus, allows abortion post-viability to protect the life or health of the mother, and prohibits Arizona from adopting penalties for assisting with a
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Non-profit
The New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children is a left-of-center immigration law and activism organization. In addition to providing legal services to children allegedly in the country illegally, it works with other organizations to assign state-funded legal services, and promotes liberal-expansionist immigration policies within New Jersey.
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Political Party/527
Put Michigan First was a Democratic Party Super PAC controlled by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) and funded largely by the DGA, labor unions, and Road to Michigan’s Future, a 501(c)(4) “dark money” group connected to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).
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Political Party/527
The Progress Michigan Political Action Fund is a Super PAC associated with Progress Michigan, a left-of-center advocacy organization in Michigan. 164 It receives significant funding from labor unions and is the largest single recipient
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Other Group
Michigan Families for Fair Care (MFFC) is a left-of-center pop-up organization created in January 2024 by Unrig Our Economy that is funded by left-of-center Sixteen Thirty Fund (1630 Fund).
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Labor Union
The Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) is the statewide teacher’s union in Indiana. It is affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA) and works to advance Democratic Party candidates and left-of-center policy priorities in the state.
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Non-profit
Education Reform Now (ERN) is a left-of-center education activist organization. ERN supports the far-left Black Lives Matter movement,
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Other Group
Movements Trust is a United Kingdom-based charity that makes grants and provides support to organizations that engage in left-leaning environmental policies and activism, particularly climate change activism. Activities and Grantmaking Movements Trust supports and provides funding for environmental activism, particularly focused on climate change. The goal of the Trust is
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Other Group
Collective Courage Fund is an unincorporated political action project dedicated “to building a robust cooperative movement of urban and rural black cooperatives.” A joint effort among the New Venture Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Partnership Funds, the Partnership Action Fund, the National Black Food and
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Movement
There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.
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Non-profit
NextGen Policy, doing business as NextGen Climate America, is a nonprofit organization that advocates for left-of-center environmental, racial justice, and wealth redistribution policies. It claims to be opposing the supposed “environmental, social, racial, and economic inequities” that exist in the state of California.
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Non-profit
Kansas Values Institute is a left-of-center political advocacy organization in Kansas that has been “long aligned with Democrats.”
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Person
James “Jim” Baker is an attorney formerly employed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Twitter. He has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Baker became the Twitter deputy general counsel in June 2020 and held
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Non-profit
First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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Person
Yvon Chouinard is the socialist billionaire founder and former owner of Patagonia, a sportswear apparel company known for its environmentalist activism, including donating 1 percent of annual revenue to philanthropic causes (totaling roughly $230 million through 2022).
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Non-profit
The Women’s Foundation of California is a left-of-center, feminist-aligned foundation based in California. It has received financial support from various private grantmaking foundations including Bank of America, Akonadi Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Microsoft, New Venture Fund, California Endowment, Blue Shield of California Foundation,
