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Non-profit
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a nonprofit environmental group known for its advocacy for public policies concerning global warming and a left-wing political agenda. Since the EDF was founded in 1966, it has grown into a behemoth $150 million per year environmental action organization with twelve offices across the
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The Sequoia Climate Fund is an environmentalist grantmaking organization that advocates for policy solutions to climate change as well as transitioning to clean energy usage. 1 The organization initially branched off from fundraising network organization
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The Climate Power Education Fund (Climate Power, formerly Climate Power 2020) is a project of the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), and the Sierra Club. Climate Power advocates in support of left-of-center environmentalist policy.
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The Bezos Earth Fund is a left-of-center charitable project launched by billionaire Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in February 2020. Bezos endowed the Fund with $10 billion to be disbursed by 2030 to environmentalist projects aimed at combatting climate change.
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The 20/20 Vision Education Fund was the 501(c)(3) affiliate of 20/20 Vision National Project. The left-of-center 20/20 Vision Education Fund tracked proposed federal legislation and supported environmentalist, anti-military, and nuclear disarmament causes. According to the Internal Revenue Service, 20/20 Vision’s tax-exempt status was automatically revoked in 2013 for not
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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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The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) is a global environmentalist policy advocacy and research organization that works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It partners with state entities and non-governmental organizations around the world to push for environmentalist legislation and policy changes to slow the
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The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is a left-of-center fiscal sponsorship and grantmaking organization that focuses on environmental issues, especially those related to the world’s oceans. Founded in 2001, TOF has received private and governmental funding, and also offers corporate partnerships, drawing attention to the public relations face-lift it can bestow: “improved
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Person
Michael S. Regan is a left-of-center environmental activist who is serving as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Biden administration. Previously, Regan was Secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality under Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC).
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Christopher Reynolds Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that has focused for many years on supporting normalizing U.S. relations with Communist-ruled Vietnam and Cuba. According to its website, the Foundation is going through a “period of transition in its grantmaking profile” following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United
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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust is the private grantmaking foundation of the late real estate developer and philanthropist Bernard Spitzer and his wife, Anne, whose children include former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D). The foundation is a major contributor to left-of-center nonprofits. Background Formed in 2001
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The Kohlberg Foundation is a private family foundation founded by private equity billionaire Jerome Kohlberg and his wife Nancy in 1989, based in Mt. Kisco, New York. The foundation provides grants to numerous left-of-center organizations, focused on legal policy related to health programs, the environment, and education.
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Person
Kathryn Murdoch is a left-leaning political activist and donor to liberal causes. Kathryn is the wife of James Murdoch, the liberal-leaning son of News Corporation co-founder Rupert. With her husband she is co-founder and president of the Quadrivium Foundation; she sits on the boards of a number of left-of-center advocacy
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Person
Scott Faber is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit environmental advocacy group. Previously, he lobbied for left-wing environmental groups American Rivers and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
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Non-profit
20/20 Vision National Project was a left-of-center 501(c)(4) nonprofit that engaged in advocacy work to promote an environmentalist, anti-war, and anti-nuclear agenda. Founded in 1986, the organization appears to be defunct, as of February 2024. Tax records show the nonprofit ran a deficit of over $70,000 in during the 2018
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EcoAmerica (styled “ecoAmerica”) is an environmentalist advocacy group that aims to influence Americans’ views on environmental policy and persuade more people to become environmentalist activists. It attempts to achieve this through its campaigns, programs, events, and partnerships
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Other Group
Defend Our Future is a left-wing environmental organization and a project of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
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The S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation was a private grant maker started in 1957 by Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr, grandson of the founder of the engineering firm Bechtel Corporation, and CEO for 30 years. The Foundation concluded operations on December 31, 2020.
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Other Group
The Global Partnership for the Oceans (GPO) was a public-private partnership announced in 2012 that brought together a wide coalition of different organizations with the aim of addressing pollution, habitat loss and issues related to seafood harvesting.
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Non-profit
Grist Magazine is an online-only environmentalist magazine that supports left-of-center policy viewpoints. Grist is almost entirely funded by grants, including from major left-of-center grantmaking nonprofits like the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Miami Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2022, Grist had 30 journalists and
