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The Surdna Foundation is an advocacy and endowment management foundation1 funded by a contribution from capitalist businessman turned U.S. Representative John Andrus (R-N.Y.) in 1917. The Foundation has moved away from its
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New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization located in New York City, to which it directs all of its grants. The foundation is focused on economic and social issues affecting women and transgendered people, with an emphasis on left-of-center conceptions of “social justice” and “structural racism.”
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The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a left-of-center Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy fund and grantmaking organization that conducts outreach campaigns to generate support for left-leaning causes among AAPI communities. 1
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Headwaters Foundation for Justice is a Minneapolis-based left-of-center grantmaking organization officially formed in 1985. The organization was created to support various left-progressive issues and has focused on grants to support left-of-center activism on behalf of Black and Native American communities in Minnesota. Founded by various donors, the organization more recently
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The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation is a Los Angeles, California-based grantmaking foundation founded in 1969 as the Roy Disney Family Foundation. It was later renamed for its namesake couple, who were part of the Disney World family before their passing. Its invitation-only grant process focuses on environmentalism, community
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The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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For more information, see Blue Green Alliance (Nonprofit) BlueGreen Alliance Foundation is a left-wing nonprofit think tank that researches the economy and environment. It is an arm of the BlueGreen Alliance. Funding Financial Overview BlueGreen Alliance Foundation: Financial Overview YearTotal RevenuesTotal ExpendituresGrants PaidNet Assets 2019 $2,983,352 $4,979,036 $294,500
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The Stephen Case Foundation (also known as the Case Foundation) is a private foundation that gives grants to organizations that support charitable and center-left social initiatives. Background Jean and Steve Case founded the Stephen Case Foundation in 1997 after serving in executive positions at America Online.
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New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a left-of-center think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The think tank’s scholars and affiliated commentators include former and some
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Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel
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Redefining Progress was a left-of-center public policy organization based in Oakland, California, that described itself as seeking allegedly market-based solutions for environmental issues. Redefining Progress called for stopping global warming through carbon taxes, auctioning emissions permits, and securing multinational treaties on emissions. The organization called for ending the exploration for
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations is a left-of-center organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that acts as a networking organization and membership association for grantmaking foundations and professionals working for such organizations. The group’s roughly 500 member organizations are largely left-of-center grantmaking foundations and include many of the largest left-of-center grantmaking organizations
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Techsoup Global is a nonprofit organization that provides discounted technology assistance and software subscriptions to nonprofits with support from a variety of tech companies and left-of-center grantmaking foundations. The group was founded in 1987 by Daniel Ben-Horin, a left-of-center former journalist who previously ran the Media Alliance, an association of
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Tipping Point Fund is a grantmaking project of the left-of-center New Venture Fund. 1 The organization’s grant making areas include “data, metrics, and measurement,” under which the organization awards grants
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Hester Street Collaborative is an urban planning nonprofit that partners with municipal governments, community organizations, and other institutions to direct their infrastructure projects towards left-of-center social and environmental goals, which include group equality of outcome, taxpayer-funded housing subsidies, and reduced use of conventional fuels. Hester Street Collaborative is named after
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Monument Lab is a nonprofit focusing on past, present, and future public monuments and contends that monuments must be changed. Monument Lab produced an audit of United States monuments alleging that they overwhelmingly depict white men, memorialize war and conquest, and misrepresent the history of the country. Monument Lab curated
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Liberation Ventures (LV) is a fiscally sponsored project of PolicyLink that gives grants to nonprofits that promote race-based reparations in the United States. LV primarily focuses on encouraging cultural change but seeks the eventual enactment of reparations policies at the federal level. Goals According to Liberation Ventures, the United
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National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) is a project of the left-of-center Tides Center and is a coalition of activist organizations that advocate for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and other Americans of Pacific Islander descent.
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The Black Collective is a left-of-center activist organization based in southern Florida that is connected to the larger Black Lives Matter movement. It has staunchly opposed several policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), particularly his support of a state law passed in 2021 designed to prevent public
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Impact Capital Managers (ICM) is an investment advisory firm that advises its member funds on “impact investing” in environmental and other left-of-center projects. It is a project of the left-of-center Crane Institute of Sustainability (CIS).
