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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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For more information, see Tides Nexus The Makeway Foundation, previously titled the Tides Canada Foundation, is a Vancouver, Canada-based nonprofit associated with the Tides Nexus, a collection of center-left pass-through grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits based in San Francisco, California. Despite its name, Makeway Foundation is an IRS-designated
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The Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation is a private family grantmaking organization founded in 1943 by Bernard and Alva Gimbel. As of December 2024, the foundation was managed by Bernard and Alva Gimbel’s granddaughter, Leslie Gimbel.
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The Lannan Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation that supports Native American activism, the arts, and the critical race theory-influenced concepts of social justice, education justice, and economic justice. 85
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March On Foundation, also known as March On Maryland, is a fiscal sponsorship organization associated with March On, a group that split off from the Women’s March movement, that coordinates marches and funds projects that advocate on policies towards racial justice, climate change, and LGBT rights.
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Qatar Foundation International, LLC (QFI) is a United States-based member of the Doha-based and Qatari state-supported Qatar Foundation.
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The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation is a family foundation based in Palo Alto, California that was co-founded by Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang, a Taiwanese-American businessman and technology entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief executive officer of computer chip supplier Nvidia. The foundation was formed by Jensen and his
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The Zakat Foundation of America, also known simply as the Zakat Foundation, is a global Islamic charitable organization based in Bridgeview, Illinois, that offers aid to impoverished communities around the world. 186
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The College Futures Foundation (CFF) is an education charity that aims to bring higher education opportunities to students from less fortunate communities in California. It calls for an “equitable educational system of the future” which will coincide with an “inclusive” economy.
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The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation is a Wilsonville, Oregon-based private grantmaking foundation founded by and run by the descendants of Marie Lamfrom. Lamfrom founded Columbia Sportswear company in 1938 after she emigrated from Germany.
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Soapbox: The Feminist Foundation is a private funding organization which donates to promote feminist causes. The organization works closely with feminist activist Gloria Steinem, holds feminist camps, promotes feminist speakers, and seeks to “strengthen the individuals and organizations who are leading the way in feminism.”
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The Inland Empire Community Foundation is a community foundation located in Riverside, California, that funds organizations and programs in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The Foundation operates donor-advised funds on behalf of donors in the area as well as a special funds focused on Latinos, women, education, journalism,
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The Campbell Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that primarily supports environmentalist organizations focused on issues relating to the Chesapeake Bay and environmentalist organizations on the West Coast. 256 The organization contributes to numerous local chapters of the
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The Loud Hound Foundation is a San Francisco-based left-of-center grantmaking foundation. 269 William Moritz is the president of the Loud Hound Foundation. His father, venture capital billionaire and Sequoia Capital director
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Water Foundation is a Sacramento, California-based left-of-center environmentalist grantmaker with a focus on water-related issues. It occasionally takes stances on non-environmental issues as well. Major donors such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation provide funds to
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The Conservation Lands Foundation (CLF) is a left-of-center environmental activist organization that seeks to expand the United States’ National Conservation Lands 295 and operates the Stop Willow Campaign, which opposes the development of the National
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The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation is the independent philanthropic arm of Cabot-Wellington LLC, an investment management firm from Boston. The foundation gives grants to organizations such as the Tides Foundation, American Near East Refugees, Young Women Empowered, and Multifaith Alliance. The foundation states it has four main areas of
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The Hellman Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation based in and with its primary focus in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2020, the group gave $2,750,000 to the New Venture Fund.
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The Anthony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi Foundation is a husband-and-wife-operated private foundation that generates revenue from investment income and issues grants to other nonprofit organizations. Grant recipients include left-of-center advocacy organizations, including Voices for Progress, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Voto Latino. Background The president of
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The Lynton Foundation is a private nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 371 and is run by brother and sister
