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 The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

Non-profit, Environmental Policy
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is the world’s largest nongovernmental conservation organization and ranked 20th on the 2018 Forbes list of the 100 largest U.S.-based charities….
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 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 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 World Wildlife Fund

World Wildlife Fund

Non-profit, Environmental Policy
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF, also known abroad as World Wide Fund for Nature) is an international non-governmental organization that focuses on conservation and environmentalism…
View Acton Family Giving

Acton Family Giving

Non-profit, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Acton Family Giving is a left-of-center grant maker that supports racial preferences in social policies, LGBT advocacy organizations, and animal liberation and environmentalist groups. Acton…
View Fayer Collective

Fayer Collective

Organization, Other, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy
The Fayer Collective is a loosely organized group of Jewish radical anarchists that protest in support of a Palestinian state, against police, and in favor…
View Workers’ Voice

Workers’ Voice

Organization, Other, Economic Policy, Environmental Policy, Immigration Policy
Workers’ Voice, also known by the Spanish name La Voz de los Trabajadores, is a socialist-leaning political organization in the United States that advocates for…
View Sierra Club

Sierra Club

Non-profit, Environmental Policy
The Sierra Club is one of the nation’s oldest and largest environmentalist organizations. The group has supported the regulation of conventional fuel energy sources in…
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 Freedom Together Foundation

Freedom Together Foundation

Non-profit, Environmental Policy, Healthcare Policy
The Freedom Together Foundation, previously known as the JPB Foundation, is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. By 2019, it was listed…
View Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Non-profit, Environmental Policy
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a nonprofit environmental group known for promoting policies concerning global warming and left-of-center climate policy advocacy.
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 Greenpeace

Greenpeace

Non-profit, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy
For the associated 501(c)(3), see Greenpeace Fund (nonprofit)
View 128 Collective Foundation

128 Collective Foundation

Non-profit, Abortion Policy, Environmental Policy, LGBT Policy
The 128 Collective Foundation is the private foundation of GitHub cofounder Thomas Preston-Werner and his wife, Theresa. It makes grants to environmentalist groups seeking to…
View Gates Foundation

Gates Foundation

Non-profit, Environmental Policy, Healthcare Policy
The Gates Foundation, previously known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was formed in 2000 by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his then-wife, Melinda…
View Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation (TKREF)

Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation (TKREF)

Non-profit, Environmental Policy
The Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation (TKREF) is a private foundation based in Pescadero, California, focused on promoting regenerative agriculture. Founded in 2008 by environmentalist billionaire…
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 Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)

Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)

Non-profit, Environmental Policy
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is a left-of-center environmental activist and legal advocacy organization based in Tucson, Arizona. Total revenue for 2017 exceeded $20.1…
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…

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