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The Lens is a nonprofit news organization based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before receiving its charity status, The Lens operated under the “fiscal sponsorship” of the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a left-of-center investigative journalism group headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Cavali Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation run by Cedomir Crnkovic and Valerie Rubsamen. The Cavali Foundation frequently makes grants to left-leaning organizations including large grants to get-out-the-vote organizations like the Voter Registration Project, also known as the Everybody Votes Campaign, and the Voter Participation Center. Funding In
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The Civic Responsibility Project (CRP) is a project of the New Venture Fund, one of the funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a left-of-center consultancy that is considered one of the largest “dark money” networks in the United States. Its status as a project ensures that no separate public
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Vote Morongo Basin is a voter registration organization that was founded by Jo Ann Bollen, a retired small business owner who unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Yucca Valley Town Council in 2018. Vote Morongo Basin partners with several left-of-center voting registration organizations including Field Team 6 and
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The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation is a technology-focused private foundation founded by Patrick J. McGovern, a technology entrepreneur who founded the International Data Group (IDG), a market intelligence company that publishes several publications and data sources in the technology industry. Ownership of IDG was transferred to the McGovern Foundation after
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The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is a left-of-center organization that facilitates learning and interaction between policymakers and state officials on health policy issues. NASHP is a project of the Center for Health Policy Development.
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Solidarity Giving is a left-of-center grantmaking and advocacy donor-advised fund located in Palo Alto, California. The fund was created in 2016 immediately after the election of President Donald Trump to change government systems, laws, and policies nationwide.
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Healthy Democracy Healthy People Initiative (previously known as VoteSAFE Public Health) is a coalition of roughly a dozen public health, health care advocacy, civic engagement, and medical organizations to influence policymakers and influence the politics of public health and the handling of elections. The Initiative sought to introduce novel election
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WorkIt is an organized labor smartphone app that aims to distribute information about workers’ rights, labor unions, and the labor movement to the public. It was founded by labor activists Catherine Huang and Andrea Dehlendorf in 2016
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Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) is a policy think tank that purports to seek to improve government effectiveness and correct bureaucratic inefficiency. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by consulting company Arabella Advisors that makes grants to left-of-center organizations.
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The Campaign for Our Shared Future is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) group that is managed by left-of-center philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The project opposes laws that seek to prohibit and opposes advocacy efforts to limit the spread of critical race theory in K-12
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Carrie Walton Penner is a member of the Walton family, the richest family in America. 1 She is the granddaughter of Walmart founders Helen and
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The United Philanthropy Forum is a national association of grantmakers that grew out of the Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers, an initiative of the Council on Foundations. 1 UPF provides a
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National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is a professional organization for secretaries of state and other officials who work in the role as secretary of state in all 50 states; Washington, D.C.; Puerto Rico; and American Samoa.
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Not to be confused with Omidyar Network (Nonprofit) The Omidyar Nexus describes a collection of nonprofit and for-profit organizations associated with and funded by Pierre Omidyar, a billionaire donor to center-left political causes and founder of eBay. Information about each member of the nexus is compiled below; for
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The Audacious Project is a project of the TED Foundation which funds organizations intended to catalyze positive large-scale social impacts. Many of the groups it funds have left-of-center policy goals, particularly related to environmentalism and social justice. From its founding in 2018 to 2020, the Audacious Project spent almost $2
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Secure Elections Project is an election administration and lobbying group that supports left-of-center policies that it claims will restore confidence in the vote and expand access to the polls.
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Rick Cruz is the former president and CEO of Arabella Advisors, a left-of-center philanthropic consulting company that has been criticized for operating “dark money” groups such as Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, and Hopewell Fund. Advocacy funds managed by Arabella took in $635 million in revenue in
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Susan Packard Orr is the daughter of David and Lucile Packard and former chair of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation), having sat on the board since 1967 and still sitting in an honorary capacity since her retirement in early 2022. She also runs a software company
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Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) is an Arizona-focused left-of-center policy advocacy organization. CAA Is a member of the labor union-aligned Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a member of EPI’s Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racist Resources list, and a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, a coalition of liberal-left
