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Government Agency
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Other Group
The Families and Workers Fund (also known as the Families + Workers Fund) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization fiscally sponsored by the Amalgamated Foundation, a donor-advised fund provider related to the formerly Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank. Initially, the fund aimed to mitigate the economic effects of
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Person
Oprah Winfrey is a world-renowned television host, media personality, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Best known for her over 23-year TV show “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Winfrey is the first African-American woman billionaire and the owner of multiple TV networks, publications, and charitable foundations, including Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and the
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Other Group
The Blue Carbon Initiative is a joint effort by several organizations focused on using preservation of wetlands and marshes around the world as a means towards carbon sequestration. Co-organizers of the Blue Carbon Initiative, beginning in 2015, include the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Conservation International, and the
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For-profit
Clearlake Capital Group (also known as Clearlake) is a private investment firm based in Santa Monica, California. It is perhaps most notable for its ownership stake in Chelsea Football Club, which as of 2024 plays in the English Premier League.
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Non-profit
Committee for the Republic is a right-of-center anti-interventionist foreign policy advocacy group that takes a particularly strong anti-Israel stance. Committee for the Republic was founded in 2003 by John B. Henry. 1
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Non-profit
Acton Family Giving is a left-of-center grant maker that supports racial preferences in social policies, LGBT advocacy organizations, and animal liberation and environmentalist groups. Acton Family Giving is a donor-advised fund (DAF) founded in 2014 by billionaire philanthropists Brian and Tegan Acton managed by Fidelity Charitable.
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Non-profit
The George W. Bush Foundation, which operates as the George W. Bush Presidential Center (shortened as the Bush Center), is a nonpartisan organization that houses the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and the George W. Bush Institute at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus in Dallas. The Bush Center’s mission
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Non-profit
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gifts Fund is a grantmaking organization which receives contributions from current and former employees of Goldman Sachs, a multinational financial services firm that is one of the most influential investing institutions in the world. The fund, which does business under the name “Goldman Sachs Gives,”
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Non-profit
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation was a private grantmaking foundation that existed from the 1950s until it began to wind down its operations and spend down its endowment in the 2010s, officially closing in 2021. The foundation was founded in 1954 by Donald W. Reynolds, the founder of Donrey Media
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Other Group
D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice is a program launched by Teaching for Change, a nonprofit organization that focuses on left-of-center “social justice” education. It is a network for educators in the Washington, D.C., area who support “social justice teaching” and coordinates resources, teacher-led working groups, and events in
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Non-profit
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) is a grantmaking organization based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. It includes two subordinate entities: the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and the Anne Ray Foundation. The MACP endowment primarily comes from the fortune of agricultural business heiress Margaret Anne Cargill, who engaged in extensive philanthropic
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Non-profit
Aileen Getty Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation founded and operated by Aileen Getty, an heiress to the Getty family fortune. The Foundation provides grants to left-of-center organizations, including LGBT-interest and environmentalist groups. 1
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Other Group
Just Stop Oil is a United Kingdom-based climate-change activist group. It caused controversy when members threw tomato soup onto the 1888 masterpiece painting Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh as a protest stunt. Background Just Stop Oil refers to itself as a “coalition” of groups that advocate for ending all production
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Non-profit
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, previously known as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, is a nonprofit organization which owns and runs Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historical estate. The Foundation states that its vision is to use Thomas Jefferson’s legacy to revisit history in light of “national and global dialogues.”
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Person
David H. Koch was an industrialist and philanthropist who owned 42 percent of the shares of Koch Industries, a privately held conglomerate. Koch willed his shares to his widow, Julia Koch, and his three children. Forbes estimated in 2022 the shares were worth $60 billion, making Julia Koch the third-richest
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Non-profit
Vote.org is a left-of-center get-out-the-vote organization specifically designed to mobilize minority communities through online communications and resources. 1 Vote.org says it is the “largest 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) technology platform in America, with the goal of reaching
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Person
Anand Giridharadas is an American writer best known for his critical views on American and global elites, whom he believes use philanthropy and lackluster reform efforts to avoid or obscure the perpetration of structural economic inequality. Career After graduating from the University of Michigan in 20013 with a degree in
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Non-profit
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) is a museum and cultural learning center in Cincinnati, Ohio, which uses the history of the Underground Railroad and subsequent racial and civil rights struggles for the purpose of “promoting social justice for all.”
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For-profit
Enid Lee Consultants is an educational consulting firm based in California that provides critical race theory-aligned “antiracism” workshops, consulting, and speeches on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Enid Lee Consultants was founded and is led by Enid Lee, a left-of-center activist.
