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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
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
Committee to Protect Health Care (CTP) is a trade name for the Committee to Protect Medicare and the ACA. 1 It is a super PAC
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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. In 2022, Chouinard and his family relinquished control of the company to a trust and a nonprofit that are
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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,
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Non-profit
Spark Freedom provided strategic planning, coaching, branding, and other communications consultant services to right-of-center non-profit groups. 1 It appears that the groups is no longer operational as of October
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Other Group
The Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression was founded in 1972 by social activist Brian Verdin. 1 The organization today professes
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Non-profit
Youth Mentoring Action Network (YMAN) is a left-of-center youth mentoring activism organization focused on young people, primarily LGBT, Black, Latino, first-generation college students, and low-income youth located in California. As of 2021, it was attempting to expand its reach nationally. Critical Mentoring Youth Mentoring Action Network follows the method of
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Non-profit
The American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan (ACLU Fund of Michigan) is the charitable affiliate organization of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU of Michigan), a left-leaning activist organization and state-level arm of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ACLU Fund of Michigan mainly engages in
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Other Group
Count Every Vote is a left-leaning issue advocacy campaign that promotes changes to election laws and advocates for increased funding for election administration. The campaign was founded in 2020 as a $15 million communications campaign to counter then-President Donald Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting.
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For-profit
Twitter (known officially since a 2023 rebranding as “X”1) is a social networking website founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
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Non-profit
Evergreen Action is a left-of-center climate change advocacy group founded by former staffers of the 2020 presidential campaign of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D). It is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center pass-through funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the consulting firm Arabella
