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Non-profit
The Urban Institute is a non-profit that was originally founded by President Lyndon Johnson and group of his handpicked cohorts to provide research supporting his administration’s liberal entitlement programs.
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Non-profit
The Advancement Project (AP) was established in 1999 by a group of civil rights lawyers as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. While its stated objective is to address race and civil rights issues through the legal system and community activism, AP is in fact a key left-wing agitation group that
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Non-profit
Race Forward (also known as Applied Research Center) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for a variety of racial and identity-based issues. The organization hosts conferences in support of left-progressive racial and identity-politics efforts, publishes the magazine and online media outlet Colorlines, and co-sponsors the Government Alliance on Race
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Non-profit
Population Connection is a left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group that supports global population control policies. The organization was founded in 1968 as Zero Population Growth by environmentalist and population control activist Paul Ehrlich directly following the publication of his controversial 1968 book, The Population Bomb. The organization affirms that population
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Non-profit
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA, sometimes styled PeTA) is one of the world’s largest, most aggressive, and most controversial animal liberation groups. The group has become notorious for aggressive campaigns against any and all human use of animals, even as it is dogged by allegations of hypocrisy
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Person
Henry P. van Ameringen is a retired American businessman, real estate developer, philanthropist and advocate for gay rights and marijuana legalization. Van Ameringen worked for the International Flavor and Fragrance company, founded by his father, Arnold Louis van Ameringen. He is a board member of the family’s van Ameringen Foundation
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Non-profit
The Gamaliel Foundation was originally founded in 1968 by left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, and re-oriented into a community organizing operation during the 1980s under the guidance of executive director Greg Galluzzo.
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Non-profit
Issue One is an organization that advocates for restricting election-related speech activity. It also seeks to restrict lobbying on local, state, and federal levels. While it purports to be bipartisan and works with former centrist Republican lawmakers, the group is associated with the Democracy Alliance network of liberal mega-donors,
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Non-profit
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a nonprofit environmental group known for its advocacy for public policies concerning global warming and a left-wing political agenda. Since the EDF was founded in 1966, it has grown into a behemoth $150 million per year environmental action organization with twelve offices across the
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Non-profit
Enroll America is a 501(c)(3) founded in 2011—the year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was signed into law—for the express purpose of enrolling people in Obamacare insurance plans and ensuring those people renewed their enrollments.
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Person
Drummond McGavin Pike is an American businessman, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. He is notable for founding a number of organizations that promote and fund progressive causes, the most notable of which was the Tides Foundation in 1976, an organization he led as CEO for 35 years, retiring in
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Non-profit
Intel founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty established the Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation (also known as the Moore Foundation) in 2000, and Gordon funded the foundation’s endowment with 175 million shares of Intel stock in 2001.
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Non-profit
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation) is a private foundation established in 1966 by Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett, his wife Flora, and his son Walter.
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Labor Union
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is the sixth-largest national labor union in the United States, representing employees in the food production, retail, and chemical industries.
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Non-profit
Founded by left-wing activist and former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group is a 501(c)(4) organization that oversees a federation of state progressive advocacy groups also known as “PIRGs.” As the national organization for these independent state-based PIRGs, U.S. PIRG coordinates resources among its 47
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Non-profit
Note: USAction is no longer in operation and merged to form People’s Action in 2016 USAction was a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The group was created by activist Heather Booth in 1999 as a successor to the scandal-ridden consumer advocacy group Citizen Action, which
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Non-profit
The American Independent Institute, formerly the Center for Independent Media, is a fund for left-wing journalists to conduct deep reporting projects on the “nexus of conservative power in Washington.”
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Non-profit
The Sustainable Markets Foundation is an environmentalist organization pushing for stricter environmental laws and bans on natural gas production. 1 Despite its name, the group is organized as a 501(c)(3) public charity, not a foundation.
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Non-profit
The Ruckus Society is a community-based organization that trains and provides tools to support organizers in advocating environmental, human rights and social justice policy through the, “strategic use of creative, nonviolent direct action.”1 The
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Political Party/527
For the related nonprofit, see Priorities USA Action (nonprofit) Priorities USA Action is a major Super PAC associated with supporting Democratic Party candidates and opposing Republican candidates. The organization was created in April 2011
