Search results for ‘Democracy Alliance’


  • Non-profit

    Lewis Foundation

    The Lewis Foundation is a private foundation primarily funded by its president Adam J. Lewis. 1 Adam Lewis is the son of the late billionaire Peter B. Lewis, the former
  • Person

    Ken Grossinger

    Ken Grossinger is a left-wing political consultant working for Democracy Partners as director of the firm’s Impact Philanthropy and Donor Advising Division. He previously worked as a political strategist for the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO.1 He
  • Non-profit

    Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF)

    The Civic Participation Action Fund (CPAF) was a secretive left-of-center advocacy group created by the Atlantic Advocacy Fund in December 2014 with a multi-million dollar endowment. The Atlantic Advocacy fund is one of several 501(c)(4) nonprofits created by Atlantic Philanthropies, a principally offshore left-of-center grantmaking foundation associated with
  • Non-profit

    Douglas H. Phelps Foundation

    The Douglas H. Phelps Foundation is the private foundation of left-progressive activist Doug Phelps, president of the Public Interest Network, Fund for the Public Interest, Grassroots Campaigns Inc., and a number of related Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) organizations.
  • For-profit

    Green Century Capital Management

    Green Century Capital Management is a left-leaning investment firm that invests in environmentalist nonprofits and causes. The firm was founded by various groups in the Public Interest Network, including the Fund for the Public Interest, U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), and various state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), and
  • Non-profit

    Jerome L. Greene Foundation

    The Jerome L. Greene Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization. The foundation is based in New York City and focuses its grants in the area. Left-wing groups that have received funding from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood, and
  • Person

    Joe Zimlich

    Joe Zimlich is chief executive of the Bohemian Group, a left-leaning family financial management firm affiliated with the Bohemian Foundation, and a founding member of the Democracy Alliance.
  • Person

    Farhad Ebrahimi

    Farhad Ebrahimi is a left-wing political activist, supporter of the radical Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, advocacy donor, and founder of the Chorus Foundation. He is also a board member of the Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy donors bankrolling Democratic campaigns and left-of-center advocacy organizations. Ebrahimi is
  • Person

    Susan Sandler

    Susan Sandler is a San Francisco-based left-wing political activist and philanthropist known for her support of Democratic candidates and left-wing causes and organizations. Sandler and her husband Steven Phillips, who is also a left-of-center advocacy donor, founded the Sandler Phillips Center to advocate for left-wing causes. Sandler sits on
  • Person

    Kim Anderson

    Kim Anderson is the executive director of the National Education Association (“NEA”), the nation’s largest labor union, and the former executive vice president of the Democracy Alliance. Anderson was named Executive Director of the NEA—which represents nearly three million government workers, principally teachers—in June 2019, and began work the following September.
  • Non-profit

    Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco)

    Not to be confused with the Boston, Massachusetts-based organization of the same name. The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) is a San Francisco-based left-wing community organizing group focusing on the Chinese-American communities in the city. The group grew out of radical-left and pro-People’s Republic of China cadres; academic research has
  • Non-profit

    Moriah Fund

    The Moriah Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that has contributed over $58 million dollars to left-of-center organizations in the since 2012.1 It has worked with major left-of-center groups to fund the left-wing agenda and is
  • Non-profit

    Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation

    Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
  • Person

    Denise Cardinal

    Denise Cardinal is the executive director of the left-of-center activist organization WIN Minnesota. 1 She has held communications and political roles for liberal candidates, causes, campaigns, and elected officials for more than 20 years.
  • Person

    Ilona Prucha

    Ilona Prucha is a senior program officer for Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, a major left-of-center grantmaking foundation that was created in 2001 as part of a secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires
  • Non-profit

    Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

    The Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, formerly known as the Matan B’Seter Foundation, was created in 2001 as part of an elaborate and secretive network of grantmaking organizations funded by three hedge fund billionaires: Andrew Shechtel, David Gelbaum and C. Frederick Taylor.
  • Non-profit

    Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild (POWER)

    Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild (known simply as POWER or POWER Interfaith) is a left-of-center organizing campaign that describes itself as a coalition of various local places of worship and advocacy groups. The organization was founded in 2011 to support left-of-center policies toward the environment, criminal justice, and labor
  • Person

    Brian Fallon

    Brian Fallon is the founder and executive director of the left-wing judicial advocacy group Demand Justice. Fallon’s career includes service in the Obama administration as well as campaign work for 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
  • Non-profit

    Demand Justice

    Demand Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group created in early 2018 that aims to influence the political leanings of America’s courts by supporting the appointment of liberal judicial nominees and opposing right-of-center nominees. The organization acts primarily through media campaigns against nominated and unconfirmed judicial nominees. Demand Justice was established
  • Non-profit

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation

    The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and