-
Non-profit
Stand With Trans is a left-of-center transgender advocacy and activism group. This organization, founded in 2015 by the mother of a transgender child, 1 provides weblinks and resources to trans youth and their parents,
-
Non-profit
Stand.earth (formerly known as ForestEthics) is an environmental nonprofit organization operating in both Canada and the U.S. Stand.earth has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
-
Non-profit
StandWithUs is an international education group founded in 2001 that focuses on promoting Israel to the public. 1 The organization says it fights antisemitism and focuses on student and community educational programs on hundreds of college campuses,
-
Non-profit
Stanley Center for Peace and Security (previously the Stanley Foundation) is a private foundation focused on research, discussion, and policy action on left-of-center issues including climate change, the reduction of nuclear weapons, and mass violence.
-
Non-profit
The Starr Foundation is a private foundation associated with the late Cornelius Vander Starr, an insurance executive who worked alongside U.S. intelligence during the Second World War. Its grantmaking focuses on the study of international policy, the exhibition and preservation of Asian artworks, and other charitable endeavors.
-
Non-profit
Start Small is the grantmaking LLC fund of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. 1 Dorsey announced in April 2020 that he would be giving $1 billion of his equity in his company Square, or 28
-
Non-profit
State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) is a legal policy advocacy group that supports the advocacy of state and local governments before federal appellate courts, especially the Supreme Court of the United States. It files amicus (“friend-of-the-court”) briefs to the Supreme Court on behalf of state and local governments.
-
Non-profit
State Armor was founded in early 2024 to help states enact policies to combat the influence of the People’s Republic of China and other adversaries of the United States.
-
Non-profit
The State Court Justice Project is a project of the left-of-center judicial policy advocacy group Alliance for Justice. 1 Alliance for Justice is a legal policy coalition best known for its Judicial Selection Project,
-
Non-profit
The State Education Resource Center (SERC) is a quasi-public agency based in Connecticut that was created under state law to serve the Connecticut Board of Education. Its employees are not state employees. 1 SERC
-
Non-profit
The State Engagement Fund is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that funnels money to select left-wing groups. Observers have characterized State Engagement Fund as a “dark money” organization, since by law it does not have to disclose its donors.
-
Non-profit
The State Engagement Initiative (SEI) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group founded by the Democracy Alliance and funded by the Sixteen Thirty Fund. SEI worked to promote left-of-center and “progressive” policy in key states pertaining to the 2020 general election, including Pennsylvania which spent money to “establish a progressive majority
-
Non-profit
State Financial Officers Foundation is an organization made up of state auditors, controllers, or treasurers that promotes free markets and fiscally responsible public policy while opposing the use of Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance (ESG) principles in investment decision for public pensions. As of late 2022, the organization has
-
Non-profit
The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) is a donor collaborative and project of the left-of-center fiscal clearinghouse NEO Philanthropy launched in 2010. The SIF is one of several “funder collaboratives,” which NEO describes as tools for “connecting donors with aligned values to support work they could not fund as effectively
-
Non-profit
The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) was founded in late 2014 to promote the progressive agenda at the state level amid substantial losses for progressives in state legislative elections. A merger of several progressive organizations, including the American Legislative Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE), the Progressive States Network (PSN) and its affiliated
-
Non-profit
The State Policy Network (SPN) is a network of 167 conservative and libertarian think tanks throughout the United States and Canada. The SPN coordinates efforts to support policy goals, raise funds, and amplify the influence of its members. The SPN was run by Byron Lamm from its founding in 1992
-
Non-profit
The State Power Fund (SPF) is a nonprofit formed in 2022 focused on government-funded poverty relief and voter mobilization. Its leadership consists of numerous left-wing activists with histories of racial-policy advocacy. Leadership Doran Schrantz Doran Schrantz is the chair of the State Power Fund’s board. She is the executive director
-
Non-profit
The State Priorities Partnership (SPP), originally known as the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, 1 is a network of left-of-center think tanks organized under the Center on Budget and
-
Non-profit
The State Victory Fund is a joint initiative of the Democracy Alliance and the Committee on States to win control of the redistricting process.
-
Non-profit
State Voices is a left-of-center advocacy group founded in 2008. 1 State Voices connects advocacy and activist organizations to each other so they can collaborate in “state tables” on mutual policy goals.
