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Person
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Dorsey has said little publicly about his political beliefs, aside from supporting calls for a “universal basic income” welfare program. Dorsey has previously donated to Democratic candidates, particularly in the 2020 election cycle
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Other Group
Know Your Rights Camp (KYRC) is a left-of-center education-based organization led by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his wife Nessa. It was founded with management help from the Entertainment Industry Foundation and is based on radical-left principles espoused by Malcom X and the Black Panther
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Non-profit
REFORM Alliance is a criminal justice advocacy organization that focuses on left-of-center policy change to reform the probation and parole laws in the United States, primarily at the state levels. It was founded by rappers Meek Mill and Jay-Z, along with six billionaires.
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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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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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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
Emergent Ventures is a grant program created by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University to fund for-profit solutions to social issues. 1 It provides grants for projects that support the Mercatus
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Non-profit
Start Small is the grantmaking LLC fund of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. 1 Dorsey announced in April 2020 that he would be giving $1 billion of his equity in his company Square, or 28
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Non-profit
The Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 by popular Barbadian singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty, who performs under her middle name. 1 The CLF mainly offers disaster relief, education, and health services to countries
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Non-profit
The Okra Project is a New York City-based nonprofit that hires Black transgender chefs for Black transgender people who cannot afford food. The organization also provides money for poor Black transgender people to buy groceries. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, it shifted focus towards providing mental health services.
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Non-profit
The Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is a left-of-center research center that promotes research that aligns with “antiracism,” an ideology pioneered by left-wing academic and activist Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi’s theory holds that all racial inequalities in the United States can be attributed to “racist” policies and institutions
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Person
Ibram X. Kendi is a professor, activist, and author most known for pioneering the radical-left ideology of “antiracism,” which claims that any racial inequalities are inherently the result of racist policies. Kendi has argued that there is no such thing as being “non-racist,” and that in order to avoid being
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Non-profit
Fast Grants is a grantmaking project of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University that provides rapid grant funding for COVID-19 research. Initially funded by a $1 million grant by the Thiel Foundation in April 2020, Fast Grants has since made nearly 200 grants to support COVID-19 research.
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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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Person
Reed Hastings is the cofounder, chairman, and co-CEO of Netflix and a major Democratic political donor. During the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign, Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, raised over $100,000 on behalf of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Non-profit
The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) is one of the largest charities in the United States, functioning as a management organization for left-of-center social impact investment and donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts. 1 Donor-advised fund management
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Non-profit
Ms. Foundation for Women (Ms. Foundation) is a left-of-center nonprofit that supports feminist policies, including expanded contraception and abortion access. The group was formed in 1972 by liberal journalist Gloria Steinem, feminist journalist Patricia Carbine, political activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and actress Marlo Thomas.
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Person
Marc Benioff is founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading software company. Benioff engages in a substantial amount of advocacy-philanthropic giving, and he has espoused numerous left-of-center political views opposing capitalism, favoring strict gun control, defending liberal-left approaches to homelessness, and supporting liberal expansionist immigration policy. As of 2018,
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Political Party/527
PACRONYM is a political action committee (PAC) affiliated with the left-of-center political advocacy organization ACRONYM. PACRONYM was formed to oppose Republican candidates through digital advertising campaigns. Its initial ad campaigns were focused on state legislative races for the 2018 elections.
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Non-profit
Panta Rhea Foundation is a grantmaking foundation located in La Jolla, California. It makes grants primarily to left-leaning organizations that focus on racial and economic issues, food systems, democracy, and climate change. It has aligned itself with left-of-center organizations to oppose conventional energy infrastructure.
