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  • Other Group

    Transnational Institute

    The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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    National Association for the Education of Young Children

    The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a left-of-center early education advocacy and grantmaking organization influenced by critical race theory with approximately 60,000 members and 52 nationwide affiliates. 1
  • Other Group

    We Are Home

    We Are Home (WAH) Campaign is a far left immigration activist coalition of 18 immigration, civil rights, faith, and labor organizations with more than 50 partner organizations. 1 WAH advocates amnesty for all
  • Person

    Lisa Sobrato Sonsini

    Lisa Sobrato Sonsini is a philanthropist who lives in Silicon Valley. She is a co-founder and founding board chair of the Sobrato Family Foundation. Sonsini is also an advocate for education issues. She sits on numerous boards of charter and private schools.
  • Non-profit

    Education for Liberation Network

    Education for Liberation Network (EdLib) is a national network of left-of-center and radical-left teachers, organizers, and supporters who aim to place education in a context of the “struggle for social justice and connect it to action that leads to social change.”
  • Non-profit

    The Education Trust

    The Education Trust is a left-leaning advocacy, research, and grantmaking organization based in Washington, D.C. that advocates for more spending on public school systems among other initiatives. The organization lobbies for left-leaning educational policy at the state and federal level and provides research and resources to activists and school districts.
  • Person

    Alvin Starks

    Alvin Starks is the strategic initiatives director for the NAACP and the director of the Open Society-U.S. Equality team at the Open Society Institute (OSI) of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). In 2021, he coauthored an op-ed with Democracy Alliance head Pamela Shifman
  • Person

    Allison Barlow

    Allison Barlow is a program director at the Wallace Global Fund, a left-of-center organization supporting environmentalist causes and working to reduce corporate influence in politics. She has been affiliated with organizations connected to left-of-center juggernauts including the Democracy Alliance and the Open Society Foundations. Barlow is a
  • Person

    Amy Kurtz

    Amy Kurtz is the president of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a “dark money” fund responsible for funneling over $400 million to Democratic and left-of-center causes in 2020.
  • Non-profit

    Secure Democracy

    Founded in 2018, Secure Democracy, now known as Secure Democracy USA,  is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that bills itself as a nonpartisan organization, but has deep ties to left-leaning activists, PACs, and law firms. The organization works exclusively on election policy advocacy, and supports expanding early voting, further use of mail-in
  • Government Agency

    Biden Administration – Department of the Interior

    This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Nominations and Appointments Tommy Beaudreau was formerly Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, he was a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, and before that
  • Non-profit

    Skillful

    Skillful, previously known as the Skillful Fund Project, is a job training program which partners with major corporations and institutions such as leading retail store chain Walmart, software giant Microsoft, professional networking social media platform LinkedIn, and Purdue University in Indiana. As the Skillful Fund Project, the program
  • Non-profit

    ImpactAssets Inc.

    ImpactAssets Inc. is a donor-advised fund focused on donating to nonprofits, for-profit companies, and other philanthropic funds to create positive philanthropic impacts. In 2010, ImpactAssets spun off from Calvert Impact Capital, another non-profit investment firm, under the leadership of Timothy Freundlich, Wayne Silby, and Ron Cordes. The founders worked with
  • Person

    Gina Glantz

    Gina Glantz is a Democratic political strategist who has been active for more than six decades. 1 Glantz further sits on the boards of directors for numerous left-of-center and liberal organizations
  • Non-profit

    Blue Shield of California Foundation

    Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) is a grantmaking foundation created by Blue Shield of California, an insurance company which was founded and operated as a nonprofit until California revoked its tax-exempt status in 2014. BSCF primarily focuses on domestic violence and public health, though it also supports organizations that
  • Non-profit

    Accountable.US Action

    Accountable.US Action is the advocacy and political arm of Accountable.US, an environmentalist advocacy group that focuses on climate change, alleged “right-wing corruption,” and economic mobility in the United States. Accountable.US Action is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by the consulting
  • Non-profit

    The Asian American Foundation

    The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) is a left-of-center Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy fund and grantmaking organization that conducts outreach campaigns to generate support for left-leaning causes among AAPI communities. 1
  • Non-profit

    Sobrato Family Foundation

    The Sobrato Family Foundation is a grantmaking foundation based in Silicon Valley. It is the private foundation of real estate developer John A. Sobrato and is run by his daughter Lisa Sobrato Sonsini. The foundation is part of Sobrato Philanthropies, which includes the Family Foundation, the private
  • Non-profit

    Pershing Square Foundation

    Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) is a nonprofit organization that funds higher education, organizations that provide social services, and left-of-center advocacy organizations. 1
  • Non-profit

    Edward W. Hazen Foundation

    The Edward W. Hazen Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation that supports and organizes youth activists on issues related to public education,1 race, and class.