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Non-profit
The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
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Non-profit
The NewSchools Venture Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization which funds projects intended to support the American public school system. While the fund claims that it is committed to “every young person,” it devotes particular attention to initiatives involving minority groups, and two of its four investment areas are explicitly
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Non-profit
Christensen Fund is a private foundation originally started to acquire art that focuses on assisting indigenous people and communities internationally. In the United States, the fund makes grants to Native American populations but has also supported left-of-center nonprofits. Christensen Fund has encouraged racial reparations payments in California and supports left-of-center
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America’s Frontier Fund is a nonprofit venture capital fund that aims to help incentivize microchip manufacturing in the United States. It was founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and right-of-center PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The organization has described itself as “the nation’s first deep-tech fund that
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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, as well as the foreign affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in
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Non-profit
Youth First State Advocacy Fund is a pooled donor fund focused on criminal justice reform. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in Arabella Advisors’ multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network.
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Non-profit
The Public Interest Technology Infrastructure Fund is a grantmaking pool operated by the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in Arabella Advisors’ multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network.
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Non-profit
Blue Ventures is an environmental advocacy group based in Bristol, United Kingdom that focuses on marine and coastal conservation, with an emphasis on regulation of commercial fishing. Much of its policy advocacy involves severely curtailing, or eliminating completely, the use of trawl-fishing. It also works to steer smaller communities away
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Non-profit
19th News (sometimes known as “the 19th” or the “19th*”) is a left-of-center online media outlet focused on American and international politics related to women, especially women of color. Founding 19th News was founded in 2019 by press veterans Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora. Ramshaw was frustrated by how traditional
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Other Group
European Venture Philanthropy Association is a membership association comprised of organizations that practice venture philanthropy and social investment. Some of the organization’s members include the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, David Richards Kaplan Foundation, We Mean Business Coalition, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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Non-profit
The Philanthropic Ventures Foundation is a nonprofit based in Oakland, California that gives grants to support the arts, housing and the environment focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. 1 The foundation approves
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Non-profit
Social Venture Circle promoted left-of-center views on the economy and business. It focused on providing peer networks to work with business leaders and impact investing to promote social entrepreneurship ventures.
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For-profit
Pivotal Ventures is a private company created and led by philanthropist Melinda French Gates oriented around investing in organizations that support women’s issues. Background Though the website of Pivotal Ventures is registered with the generic top-level domain name “.org” (a truncated form of “organization” generally used by nonprofit groups),
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Non-profit
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is a nonprofit investment fund that provides “debt and equity financing” to media companies in war-torn regions and countries with authoritarian governments. 1 MDIF aligns itself with the
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Non-profit
New Profit in a grantmaking and advisory nonprofit providing funds and support for social entrepreneurs. Focused on providing funding for minority groups through equity and social change, New Profit gives to initiatives in health care equity, education, and civics and elections. New Profit has increased its focus on promoting Black,
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Non-profit
The City Fund is an education organization that funds initiatives that promote the growth of charter schools and other school choice organizations. It also funds activist organizations that support increasing charter school access and school choice programs. In June 2022, it was reported that one of the organizations it backed,
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Non-profit
Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF) funds the legal defense for law enforcement agents who are prosecuted or fired for actions taken while in the line of duty. The group also works to educate the public on the challenges faced by law enforcement officers and to improve public perception of
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Other Group
Campaign for Our Shared Future Action Fund is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a lobbying and advocacy group within the left-of-center pass-through funding network managed by Arabella Advisors. The fund is the advocacy arm of the Campaign for Our Shared Future, which opposes anti-critical race theory
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Non-profit
The Mastercard Impact Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded in 2018 which donates to organizations advancing left-of-center concepts of diversity and inclusion. 1 he fund was originally named the Mastercard Center for
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Non-profit
The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
