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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,
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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.
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The Stanley M. Herzog Charitable Foundation (also known as the Herzog Foundation) is a private grantmaking organization that focuses on making Christian education more accessible. The Herzog Foundation identifies and seeks to fill the gaps in Christian education through its grantmaking and programs, which include online content creation, news, trainings,
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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.
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Start Small is the grantmaking LLC fund of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. 49 Dorsey announced in April 2020 that he would be giving $1 billion of his equity in his company Square, or 28
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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.
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State Armor is an international advocacy group founded in early 2024 to promote state-level and national legislation that opposes the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Critics have claimed the organization is a “dark money” group and that legislation is has promoted at the state level “bear the hallmarks of modern-day
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The State Court Justice Project is a project of the left-of-center judicial policy advocacy group Alliance for Justice. 87 Alliance for Justice is a legal policy coalition best known for its Judicial Selection Project,
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State Democracy Defenders Action is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy organization formed in 2024 to oppose Republican election-related policy efforts. State Democracy Defenders Action is the lobbying and advocacy arm of the State Democracy Defenders groups, conducting a variety of projects highlighting statements made by President Donald Trump and
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The State Democracy Project (SDP) is a nonprofit organization that serves as an active fiscal sponsor of left-of-center voter mobilization groups. It also disburses grants to existing left-of-center organizations. 108
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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. 122 SERC
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The State Energy and Environmental Impact Center (also known as the State Impact Center) at New York University (NYU) School of Law is a program of NYU Law dedicated to influencing state environmental regulations and public policy by funding state attorneys general and utility regulators. State Impact Center funds and
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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.
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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
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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
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The State Freedom Caucus Network is a right-of-center advocacy group that helps establish what it calls “freedom caucuses” modeled on the House Freedom Caucus of Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives in state legislatures across the country.
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The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) is a left-of-center donor collaborative and project of the left-of-center fiscal clearinghouse NEO Philanthropy launched in 2010 in response to Republican gains in the midterm elections that year. The group has funded efforts ostensibly aimed at boosting levels of spending for election infrastructure at the state
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The State Leadership Project is a sister network to the left-of-center Committee on States, a state-level counterpart to the Democracy Alliance. 193 The State Leadership Project is a charitable
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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
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The State Power Fund (SPF) is left-of-center advocacy group founded in 2022 that promotes itself as an initiative for government-funded poverty relief and voter-mobilization efforts. The group initially received a $3 million grant in seed funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2021 while receiving funding from other left-of-center grantmaking
