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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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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, Inc. 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
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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).
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The United States Impact Investing Alliance is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for environmental, social, governance activism (ESG) with funding from major left-leaning foundations. The alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor in the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network
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The Advancing Equity and Opportunity Collaborative is a coalition of left-of-center organizations based in the southeastern United States. The focus of the coalition is the promotion of “environmental justice” and opposition to the extraction and use of reliable sources of energy such as fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and
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The Lens is a nonprofit news organization based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before receiving its charity status, The Lens operated under the “fiscal sponsorship” of the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a left-of-center investigative journalism group headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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The Center for Cultural Power (previously Citizen Engagement Lab Education Fund) is a left-of-center organization led by women of color artists focused on activism and community organizing through art.
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Kelly D. Nowlin is a descendent of the early 20th century American industrialist and former U.S. Representative John Andrus (R-NY) and is a board member of the Surdna Foundation that he founded and funded. She also runs her own philanthropic consulting practice and is involved in left-of-center environmentalist and
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Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ) is a left-wing collaborative of 30 youth-led education activist groups 1
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Freedom Labs is the name of a national partnership between left-of-center police-abolitionist organizations PolicyLink, BYP100, the Center for Popular Democracy, and Law for Black Lives. 1
