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For-profit
Ariel Investments is the first Black-founded mutual fund in the U.S. and claims to be the largest minority-owned investment fund in the U.S.
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Non-profit
The Women in Law Section (WILS), formerly known as the Committee on Women in the Law, is a left-of-center legal association which works in an advisory and policy advocacy role for litigators, especially those dealing with issues of gender equality and women’s issues. WILS is a subgroup of the New
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Non-profit
Progress Texas Institute is a left-of-center advocacy group. It conducts research and publishes communications on healthcare laws, climate regulation, gun control, voting access, and LGBT issues. 1 Progress Texas Institute is the charitable arm of the lobbying
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Person
Anne Wojcicki is co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. She was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and while they were married they co-led the Brin Wojcicki Foundation. 1 Anne Wojcicki
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Non-profit
The Pritzker Traubert Foundation is a Chicago-based left-of-center private grantmaking foundation belonging to Obama administration Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and her husband Bryan Traubert. In 2021, the foundation donated $200,000 to the New Venture Fund.
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Non-profit
Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
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Person
Michael P. Polsky is the CEO and founder of Invenergy, which claims it is the “largest privately held global developer, owner and operator of renewable energy.”
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Political Party/527
Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is a political action committee (PAC) associated with left-of-center education activist organization Education Reform Now (ERN). 1
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Non-profit
The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) is a think tank devoted to promoting racial equity in policing. CPE’s stated goal is to make policing “less racist, less deadly, and less omnipresent.” 1 Founded in 2007,
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For-profit
Field Strategies is a political advocacy group that works with labor groups, left-of-center advocacy organizations and campaigns and Democratic parties at the federal and state levels to help win elections through voter registration and outreach. 1
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Other Group
We Charge Genocide was a far-left community organization based in Chicago, Illinois, that advocated for defunding police and claimed police target minorities in their enforcement efforts. The name We Charge Genocide was inspired by a United Nations petition in 1951 which alleged that police were committing racially motivated murders
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Non-profit
The Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) is the national nonprofit organization in the United States representing the real-estate finance industry. As of 2022, MBA has 162 employees and 2,200 member organizations.
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Non-profit
Karamah (also known as Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights) is an Islamic activist group operating in the United States and the European Union. Founded in 1993, the group’s stated mission is to “educate all people” on the foundations of Islam, which it claims is “just” and “gender equitable.”
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Non-profit
The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) is a research and advocacy organization which publishes reports, informational materials, and other content intended to bolster the influence of Muslim Americans. Founded in 2002, the ISPU maintains a presence in Washington, D.C., and in Dearborn, Michigan, a city with one of
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Non-profit
The Sentencing Project is a criminal justice activism organization. 1 Since its founding in 1986 as a legal assistance and training organization for prisoners with
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Person
Laphonza Butler is a left-of center Democratic activist with a history of work as a labor organizer and abortion activist. Buter worked as president of EMILY’s List, the prominent Democratic donor collaborative from September 2021 to October 2023.
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Political Party/527
The State Tea Party Express was launched in October 2011 as an arm of Tea Party Express. 1 The group was reportedly formed as a “social
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Non-profit
All of Us Or None (AOUON) is a community organizing project of the left-of-center Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC). LSPC advocates to the California state legislature 1 on policies that seek to defund
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Non-profit
Mercy Corps is an international humanitarian-aid organization that prioritizes providing aid to communities that have been affected by natural or man-made disasters and crises. The United States government granted Mercy Corps a total of $657.2 million through 155 grants from 2021 to mid-2023. Mercy Corps also receives funding from private
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Person
Reinier Beeuwkes is a scientist, biomedical-pharmacy entrepreneur, and Democratic Party philanthropist. Between 2016 and 2020, Beeuwkes and his wife, Nancy Beeuwkes, have collectively made $1,752,100 in contributions to the Democratic Party and left-of-center organizations. 1 A large sum
