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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 Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Non-profit, Foreign Policy, Tech Policy
Also see Anti-Defamation League Foundation (Non-profit)
View Foundation for American Innovation

Foundation for American Innovation

Non-profit, Tech Policy
The Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) is a center-right think tank that advocates for limited regulation in the technology sector and the…
View Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media

Non-profit, Education Policy, Tech Policy
Common Sense Media is a research and advocacy organization that reviews and rates media and technology while claiming to provide information on its suitability for…
View Encode Justice

Encode Justice

Non-profit, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Tech Policy
Encode Justice is a youth-led activist coalition pushing for governance and censorship of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and applications. It claims that AI “algorithms are…
View Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Non-profit, Tech Policy
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a think tank in Washington, D.C., that advocates for innovation and technological development. The group is funded…
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Apple Inc.

For-profit, Tech Policy
Apple, Inc. is an American computer and technology company. Apple has been a leader in consumer electronics innovation for almost fifty years, drawing praise for…
View Future of Life Institute (FLI)

Future of Life Institute (FLI)

Non-profit, Tech Policy
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) works to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, and nuclear weapons. It focuses…
View Center for Humane Technology

Center for Humane Technology

Non-profit, Tech Policy
Center for Humane Technology (CHT), formerly known as Time Well Spent, is a group that supports restrictions on social media to combat supposed political extremism…
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Mozilla Foundation

Non-profit, Tech Policy
The Mozilla Foundation is a technology-focused nonprofit that wholly owns the Mozilla Corporation and the MZLA Technologies Corporation. Best known for its Firefox web browser,…
View Movement Labs

Movement Labs

Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy, Tech Policy
Movement Labs, formerly known as Resistance Labs, is a left-of-center nonprofit technology consultant that focuses on using peer-to-peer texting to promote left-of-center activist organizations and…
View Center for Renewing America

Center for Renewing America

Non-profit, Elections Policy, Tech Policy
The Center for Renewing America is a right-leaning nonprofit organization created by Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget under former President…
View Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Organization, Other, Tech Policy
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is a think tank specializing in combatting alleged online disinformation. The ISD has worked with numerous prominent non-governmental organizations…
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OpenAI

For-profit, Tech Policy
OpenAI is a for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) developer best known for its flagship product ChatGPT, and AI chatbot that was released to the public in…
View RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

Non-profit, Foreign Policy, Tech Policy
RAND Corporation is a think tank that aims to influence the policy and decision-making of the United States government, particularly its military. It is headquartered…
View Quadrivium Foundation

Quadrivium Foundation

Non-profit, Tech Policy
The Quadrivium Foundation (legal name Quadrivium) is a left-leaning grantmaking foundation that provides funding to social and political research groups. It is associated with James…
View Coding it Forward

Coding it Forward

Non-profit, Tech Policy
Coding it Forward is a student-led nonprofit organization that provides “Civic Digital Fellowships” for college students with technology expertise to work with government agencies and…
View The Midas Project

The Midas Project

Non-profit, Tech Policy
The Midas Project is an artificial intelligence (AI) safety-advocacy nonprofit founded in 2024 by Tyler Johnston. The group advocates for stricter safety standards and increased…
View Free Press Action Fund

Free Press Action Fund

Non-profit, Tech Policy
Free Press Action Fund was founded in 2003 as the campaign and lobbying arm of the left-of-center media advocacy organization Free Press, which advocates for censorship…
View Adbusters

Adbusters

Organization, Other, Economic Policy, Environmental Policy, Tech Policy
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a far-left non-profit media organization based in Vancouver, Canada. Its main project is the Adbusters magazine, an international bi-monthly magazine…
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Microsoft

For-profit, Environmental Policy, Tech Policy
Microsoft is an international technology corporation. It was launched in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1985, it announced the first version of…

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