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The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
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For more information, see Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (Nonprofit) Wellspring Advisors is a for-profit limited liability corporation (LLC) created to manage Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, a major center-left funding nonprofit.
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International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) is a London, United Kingdom-based left-of-center network of economists opposed to traditional development economics. The group published reports claiming corporate greed caused higher food prices.
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The Freedom Voices Network, also known as Forbidden Stories, is a media advocacy group that publishes articles from journalists that are deceased or must keep their identities anonymous due to fear of violence or death.
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Abundant Futures Fund (AFF) is an advocacy organization that promotes left-of-center immigration policies in the United States. The AFF is fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and primarily funded by the Emerson Collective, the Ford Foundation, and the JPB Foundation. As of October 2024, the three
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Non-profit
Jews United for Justice (JUFJ) is a left-of-center advocacy organization focused on the District of Columbia that promotes left-of-center policies including minimum wage increases, paid leave mandates, left-of-center criminal justice policies, looser penalties for delinquent tenants, and firearm-ownership restrictions. It has received funding from the Ford Foundation, George
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Non-profit
The Movement Voter Fund, an independent fund of the Tides Foundation, is a left-of-center grantmaking organization, umbrella network, and donor-advised fund provider. Its sister organizations include the Movement Voter Project and Movement Voter PAC. Background The Movement Voter Fund was founded in 2016 by William “Billy” Wimsatt
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Ignite Philanthropy is a project of New Venture Fund that fundraises for advocacy addressing violence against children. 112 It uses the identity politics concept of intersectionality to advocate for far-left ideas on gender,
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Person
C. Frederick Taylor (Fred Taylor) is a reclusive California billionaire and one of three founders of the TGS Management hedge fund. In July 2023 the Orange County Business Journal described TGS as “an extremely secretive quant hedge fund” and that there had been “next to no mention of the
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Person
Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy at The New School and the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. 126 Hamilton is an
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The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Hive Fund) is an organization that connects larger funders to local organizations that directly impact communities and regions. 148 The Hive Fund
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With and For Girls Fund and Collective is a Freetown, Sierra Leone-based feminist funding group. The group is housed and run by fellow Sierra Leone-based feminist group Purposeful. The group focuses on funding feminist groups run by girls and has a database where girls can submit funding proposals.
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The Equality Florida Institute is a left-of-center LGBT advocacy group and is one of two organizations that comprise Equality Florida, the other being Equality Florida Action. The group was formed in 1997 and lobbies for a variety of pro-LGBT issues and other left-of-center policies. The group was initially formed to
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BuildUS is a philanthropic collaborative designed to implement and support major federal legislation enacted during the Biden administration. BuildUS is fiscally sponsored by the left-of-center labor-union-aligned Amalgamated Charitable Foundation,
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FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is a left-of-center feminist funding organization based out of Canada. FRIDA focuses on various projects through a feminist lens that include art activism, global warming, LGBT interests, and other ventures. FRIDA has funded pro-anarchy groups, queer art, groups fighting development, educational groups for
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Other Group
Women’s Fund Asia is a feminist funder operating in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. It supports groups that advocate for women, girls, transgender, and intersex people. Since 2004, the group supported over 200 initiatives.
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Non-profit
Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ) is a left-of-center coalition of feminist groups and activists under the age of 40 in the Global South and Asia. Since 2017, RESURJ has been fiscally sponsored by the Praxis Project.
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Non-profit
Scalawag is a left-of-center online magazine covering the American South. It publishes articles that are critical of capitalism, Israel, and the police, and publishes numerous articles on what it is like being LGBT in the South. Scalawag has encouraged donations to the legal defense of those charged with offenses related
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Fenomenal Funds is a left-of-center funding collaborative that directs funds from major left-of-center grantmaking foundations to 44 separate funds that are members of the Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF), a left-of-center global network of local and national women’s funding groups. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the
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Non-profit
The Sequoia Climate Foundation (also known as the Sequoia Climate Fund) is donor to left-leaning climate advocacy groups that was created in 2020 as a spinoff from the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. In a February 2023 report, Inside Philanthropy declared Sequoia was a “new giant climate change philanthropy” and
