Group Profiles

Learn how specific non-profits, government agencies, for-profits, labor unions, or other organizations are influencing public policy. Each profile below is carefully curated by an InfluenceWatch contributor and includes funding data where appropriate.

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American Friends Service Committee

Non-profit, Criminal Justice Policy, Economic Policy, Energy Policy, Immigration Policy

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker-related organization that supports left-of-center policies on immigration, criminal justice, energy, and economic issues. AFSC opposes the…

Holdfast Collective

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

Holdfast Collective is a left-of-center grantmaking entity that owns 98 percent of apparel brand Patagonia, which was valued at $3 billion in 2022. The collective…

WESPAC Foundation

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

WESPAC (Westchester People’s Action Coalition) Foundation is a left-of-center nonprofit that supports advocacy movements for social reformation. Founded in 1974, WESPAC advocates for progressive social…

World Resources Institute (WRI)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a non-profit organization that focuses on providing research and policy approaches on environmentalist issues around the world. WRI has…

Second Trump Administration – Department of Energy

Government Agency, Other, Energy Policy

This profile contains Second Trump Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a major player in the environmentalist movement, focusing on issues related to regulating chemicals, promoting organic food, and opposing…

Energy Foundation

Non-profit, Energy Policy

The Energy Foundation (also known as the United States Energy Foundation) is a left-of-center “pass through” charitable foundation founded by and supported by a network…

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

Also see Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund (nonprofit)

Greenpeace

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

For the associated 501(c)(3), see Greenpeace Fund (nonprofit)

Second Trump Administration – Department of the Interior

Government Agency, Other, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

This profile contains Second Trump Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

350.org (National)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

350.org is a large environmentalist activist organization that claims over 556 local affiliate groups across 30 countries that organize protests in support of a total…

Power the Future

Non-profit, Energy Policy

Power the Future (PTF) is a social-welfare advocacy organization that advocates policy decisions it believes will protect rural, energy-industry-based communities. PTF offers research and facts…

Sierra Club Foundation

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

The Sierra Club Foundation is the education and fundraising arm of the Sierra Club. The organization provides fundraising support for the Sierra Club and other…

Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is a left-of-center litigation group that opposes energy infrastructure projects in the southeastern United States. It receives substantial funding…

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based activist group that uses science policy and climate change to advocate for left-of-center policies. As…

Friends of the Earth

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

Friends of the Earth is a global environmentalist group based in the Netherlands. The U.S. branch is based in San Francisco and was started in…

Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a left-leaning environmentalist organization that advocates against businesses which produce conventional energy sources (such as oil and natural gas),…

The CO2 Coalition

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

The CO2 Coalition is a right-of-center advocacy organization that educates policy makers and the general public about the importance of carbon dioxide to our lives…

Sequoia Climate Fund

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

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…

Corridor Partners

For-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

Corridor Partners is a left-of-center consultancy group focused on providing clients with environmentalist-aligned strategies to address climate change, including promoting the reduction and elimination of…

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