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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View Second Trump Administration – Department of Energy

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.
View Holdfast Collective

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…
View Energy Foundation

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…
View Second Trump Administration – Department of the Interior

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.
View Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy
Also see Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund (nonprofit)
View World Resources Institute (WRI)

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…
View Greenpeace

Greenpeace

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy
For the associated 501(c)(3), see Greenpeace Fund (nonprofit)
View American Friends Service Committee

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…
View Sierra Club Foundation

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…
View California Environmental Justice Alliance

California Environmental Justice Alliance

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy
California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) Action is a nonprofit electoral advocacy organization that operates as a fiscally sponsored project of Beyond Impact (formerly known as…
View 350.org (National)

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…
View WESPAC Foundation

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…
View Environmental Working Group (EWG)

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…
View Corridor Partners

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…
View Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy
The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a research and advocacy group that claims to work with “resource-rich countries” to develop proposals on meeting future…
View Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

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 to advocate for left-of-center policies. Its members include both…
View Sequoia Climate Fund

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…
View Sustainable Markets Foundation (SMF)

Sustainable Markets Foundation (SMF)

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy
The Sustainable Markets Foundation (SMF) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy and fiscal sponsorship organization headquartered in New York. Founded in 2002, SMF is both a…
View Friends of the Earth

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…
View Department of Energy

Department of Energy

Government Agency, Other, Energy Policy
The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level federal agency principally responsible for regulating the handling of nuclear materials and designing and producing nuclear…

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