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Person
Allan Joseph Bankman, also known as Joe Bankman, is a professor of law at Stanford University, the husband of Barbara Fried, and the father of disgraced crypto-currency billionaire and Democratic mega-donor Sam Bankman-Fried. Controversies Ties to Arabella Advisors In September 2023 a federal lawsuit against the parents of
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Non-profit
Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation is the private family foundation of Google co-founder Larry Page and his wife Lucinda Southworth. In 2021, the Foundation’s disbursements were exclusively directed to the National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), a donor-advised fund (DAF) provider that redirects grants to among other programs left-of-center
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Non-profit
Transformative Justice Coalition is an advocacy organization founded in 2015 by Barbara R. Arnwine, a left-of-center racial justice activist. It touts its participation in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which among other things allowed employees to sue their employers based on identity discrimination. Activities Transformative
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Political Party/527
Youth Progressive Action Catalyst is a left-of-center hybrid Political Action Committee (hybrid PAC). The organization labels itself as a “youth-led” organization that, as a hybrid PAC, can both engage in general election-related speech activity and also make financial contributions to the campaigns of left-of-center politicians. Blue Future, a Democratic
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Other Group
ShareAction is a U.K.-based pressure group that uses relationships with left-leaning pension funds and other institutional investors to create shareholder activism campaigns that pressure companies around the world into adopting left-of-center environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies.
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Non-profit
The Algorithmic Justice League is a left-of-center nonprofit advocacy group that advocates for restrictions on government, law enforcement, and private use of artificial intelligence technologies, with an emphasis on facial recognition technology. The organization was once a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund.
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Other Group
The Horizons Project is a networking initiative for left-of-center activists and advocacy groups. The project presents itself as a counter to perceived “times of increasing political violence” and growing opposition to establishment political institutions. Horizons claims that its goal is to protect democracy while also stating its intent to “reimagine”
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Non-profit
Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) operates under the Social Impact Exchange (SIE) banner. It facilitates collaborative investment in philanthropic organizations and nonprofits from private and governmental sources to produce growth capital to scale their initiatives. 1
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Other Group
Hammer and Hope is a far-left digital magazine that promotes a variety of far-left and left-of-center political stances and ideologies regarding economic and racial issues. The magazine was founded by Jen Parker and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and is a project of the New Venture Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship
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Non-profit
Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is an organization that advocates for the human rights of the Uyghurs, an ethnically and culturally Turkic Muslim group of people who live in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
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Movement
There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy.
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Other Group
Culture Surge is a coalition of 900 artists, organizers, and organizations that seek to change politics through artistic production. Though the organization is formally non-partisan, its ideological output tends to be left-of-center. Culture Surge’s website states that its artists are “working together in this vital moment for the survival of our
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Non-profit
Perkins Hunter Foundation is a private foundation that primarily makes grants to left-of-center, youth-focused, and education-oriented organizations. 1 Thomas Perkins, Alec Perkins, and Jamel Perkins are the Perkins Hunter Foundation’s directors.
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Other Group
Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) is a left-of-center hub designed to respond to and oppose preemption laws, which allow higher levels of government to prevent lower levels of government from passing more restrictive legislation.
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Non-profit
The Goodman-Lipman Family Foundation is the grantmaking foundation of businessman and venture capitalist Robert Goodman and his wife, Jayne Lipman. The Foundation primarily gives to Jewish and pro-Israel nonprofits, but also donates to left-of-center advocacy groups. Leadership Robert Goodman Goodman-Lipman Family Foundation co-founder and director Robert Goodman is the director
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Non-profit
Coltura is a left-of-center advocacy organization focused specifically on phasing out gasoline-powered cars and transitioning to electric vehicles. It seeks to end the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2030. 1 Coltura collaborates with several climate activist
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Other Group
The African Gender Initiative (AGI) is a grantmaking project of the African Philanthropy Forum founded in 2022 with the goal of raising $50 million over ten years to support the Africa-focused efforts of the Co-Impact Gender Fund, an international $1 billion initiative that plans to fund women’s-interest groups and
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Other Group
Delta Philanthropies is a Zimbabwe-based nonprofit organization that provides social services, takes a liberal stance on gender issues, and advocates in favor of environmentalism. Delta Philanthropies was founded by Zimbabwean telecommunications billionaire Strive Masiyiwa and has received grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller
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Non-profit
100% Democracy is an advocacy group founded and run by Miles Rapaport that supports universal mandatory voting in the United States. The organization is a project of the New Venture Fund. Leadership Miles Rapoport Miles Rapoport is the co-founder and executive director of 100% Democracy. Rapoport is the former
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Non-profit
Community Partners is a grantmaking organization and incubator committed to left-of-center political causes. It contributes funds to independent organizations but also acts as the fiscal sponsor to groups, providing them with operations and strategies. Activities Community Partners welcomes organization leaders or activists looking to start new left-of-center advocacy groups to
