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Person
Patricia “Pat” Stryker is a billionaire heiress from Colorado. 1 In recent years Stryker has been one of the nation’s top political donors, giving more than $11 million to Democratic political candidates
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Person
John C. Stocks is the chairman of the board of Democracy Alliance (DA), a collective of wealthy left-of-center donors and donor organizations. Stocks was previously the executive director of the National Education Association (NEA), where he still works as a senior advisor to guide NEA political strategy. Stocks
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Non-profit
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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Non-profit
The Knight Foundation is a left-leaning private foundation that sets a primary emphasis on funding media-related projects. The foundation, which was seeded by the estate of economically conservative newspaper publisher John S. “Jack” Knight, began by endowing chairs in journalism at universities. In the past decade, the foundation has funded
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Non-profit
The Daniels Fund is a perpetual foundation created by Robert William “Bill” Daniels, an entrepreneur whose fortune came from commissions made creating and selling cable television systems. The fund primarily supports nonprofits in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming through scholarships and support for social service organizations. Approximately 10 percent
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Non-profit
Philip F. Anschutz, a conservative businessman and the president of the Anschutz Corporation, and his wife Nancy Anschutz created the Anschutz Foundation in 1984. The Anschutz Foundation’s primary grantee is the University of Colorado, whose medical school is named for Anschutz. Other beneficiaries include nonprofits in Colorado, the American
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Labor Union
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal worker union with over 300,000 members.175 Affiliated with the AFL-CIO union federation since its founding, AFGE collectively bargains
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Non-profit
For the related superPAC, see Priorities USA (PAC) (Political Party/527) Priorities USA is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization affiliated with the liberal super PAC Priorities USA Action. Senior Obama administration staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney created the organization in 2011 to advocate for liberal issues in conjunction with
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Non-profit
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund (formerly Public Interest Projects Action Fund) is the lobbying and election-related advocacy arm of left-of-center funding pass-through NEO Philanthropy (formerly Public Interest Projects). It provides financial support to left-of-center lobbying and election-related advocacy groups including Asian Americans Advancing Justice, NextGen Climate Action, and
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Non-profit
Care in Action, previously known as Domestic Workers Legacy Fund, is a labor-union-aligned left-of-center activist group that advocates for increased government regulations on the employment and pay of domestic worker. 266 Background Care in Action,
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Non-profit
For the 501(c)(4), see Color of Change (Nonprofit) The ColorOfChange.org Education Fund (CoCEF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California. The CoCEF is a partner organization of ColorOfChange.org (Color of Change), a prominent, left-wing lobbying group for African-American interests. Since the Anthony “Van” Jones and James
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Non-profit
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a center-left issue advocacy organization focused on healthcare issues. It is credited with playing a significant role in creating the blueprint for the law that became Obamacare,
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Person
Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer is a progressive donor, venture capital investor, and political commentator. Hanauer is an activist for extreme increases in the minimum wage, a fervent financial supporter of gun control, and a multimillionaire jet-setter.
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Political Party/527
MoveOn Political Action, which jointly operates MoveOn.org with its associated 501(c)(4) organization MoveOn Civic Action, describes itself as “the largest independent, progressive, digitally-connected organizing group in the United States.”371 MoveOn Political Action gathers donations from
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Non-profit
The National Jobs for All Coalition is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Lynbrook, New York. The organization is known for its advocacy of far-left economic policies such as a $15 minimum wage, higher taxes, and a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.
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Non-profit
The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) is a Pennsylvania-based, nominally right-leaning nonprofit that promotes left-of-center environmentalist policies to otherwise conservative Christians. 396
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Person
Pierre Omidyar is the founder of the multinational e-commerce corporation eBay, a philanthropist, and a financier of left-wing organizations, including investigative journalism projects. Omidyar is a funder of left-wing politics; as such, he gave $100,000 to the NeverTrump PAC, a group opposed to 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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For-profit
Arabella Advisors (commonly called “Arabella”) is a philanthropic consulting company that guides the strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals. 456 Arabella provides these clients with a number of services that ease
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Non-profit
The Piper Fund is a campaign finance reform donor collaborative hosted by the Proteus Fund, a center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. The Piper Action Fund is the advocacy arm of the Piper Fund and is hosted by the 501(c)(4) Proteus Action League. Both the Piper Fund and
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Non-profit
Organizing for Action (OFA) was an advocacy group that was the lineal descendant of the campaign organizations supporting the election of former President Barack Obama, Obama for America and Organizing for America. OFA was a 501(c)(4) devoted to preserving and building on the Obama agenda.
