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The Daniel L. Nir and Jill E. Braufman Family Foundation is a private foundation founded in 2004 by Daniel Nir, the founder and former CEO of hedge fund Gracie Capital, and his wife, Jill Braufman.
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The Laura and Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund is a grantmaking organization created in 1995 by Laura and Gary Lauder. 1 The organization receives large amounts of money from other
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The Goodman-Lipman Family Foundation is the grantmaking foundation of businessman and venture capitalist Robert Goodman and his wife, Jayne Lipman. The Foundation primarily gives to Jewish and pro-Israel nonprofits, but also donates to left-of-center advocacy groups. Leadership Robert Goodman Goodman-Lipman Family Foundation co-founder and director Robert Goodman is the director
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Tom Jurgens is an attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In March 2023, Jurgens was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism for allegedly participating in a violent protest against “Cop City” in Atlanta, Georgia. According to the SPLC, Jurgens attended the event as a legal observer of
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First Draft News was a collective of left-wing media organizations that pushed for news publications to implement guidelines for sourcing and presenting information to combat so-called “misinformation.” Founded in 2015, the collective included tech giant Google and the foreign-affairs publication Bellingcat. First Draft shut down in 2022 and handed
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Eric Braverman is an American businessman with an extensive track record in the left-of-center philanthropic industry. He is the chief executive officer of Schmidt Futures, a grantmaking project of Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of the tech giant Google and its parent company Alphabet. Braverman is
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Not to be confused with InfluenceWatch.org Monitoring Influence is a left-of-center website that curates profiles of conservative and right-leaning activists, organizations, and funders in imitation of InfluenceWatch.org. These profiles accuse mainstream conservative groups of trying to “stack the courts” with “like-minded ideologues” expressing “ultraconservative . . . legal theories”
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The Stolte Family Foundation (SFF) is a grantmaking organization which funds left-of-center education and environmental policy advocacy, as well as other activist causes. 1 The Foundation, which primarily backs projects in the Seattle, Washington
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Facts First USA is a left-of-center advocacy organization, self-described as a “Truth SWAT-team,” created shortly after the 2022 midterm elections to advocate against right-leaning news sources and Congressional Republicans, whom it calls the “MAGA-Majority.” 1
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Red Wine and Blue (RWB) is a left-of-center Democratic advocacy and activist training group consisting primarily of “white, college-educated and affluent” suburban mothers.
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The Jewish Communal Fund is a community foundation and administrator of donor-advised funds that promotes and facilitates charitable giving within the Jewish community in the greater New York City area. The organization was founded in 1972 and since has grown to serve donor-advised fund holders across the United States and
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Accountable Tech is a left-of-center advocate for restrictions on free speech on online platforms. The group was created as a fiscally sponsored project of the North Fund, which is part of the advocacy nonprofit network managed by Arabella Advisors.
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The Quilliam Foundation (also known as Quilliam) was a British counterterrorism think tank with an American affiliate that was founded by former Islamist extremists Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz in 2008. The organization translated terrorist documents, produced videos and reports analyzing terrorism, and had staff regularly interviewed by newspapers, magazines,
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Law Works is the organization behind the 65 Project, a campaign to disbar lawyers that supported President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and prevent future Republican-led electoral legal challenges. Little is known about Law Works. The group came to light in
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The 65 Project is a campaign targeting lawyers who aided attempts by then-President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 election results using advertisements, threats of disbarment, and changing rules within the American Bar Association, ostensibly to deter future similar efforts. The 65 Project was “devised” by
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Coronavirus War Room is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded in March 2020 that has supported vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization is a project of Protect Our Care, a dark-money group operating under the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which funds a variety
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Public Wise is a left-of-center advocacy group and funding organization that was founded in 2019 by Eric Laufer, a New York City-based entrepreneur in the wind-reliant energy industry. The organization funds projects and organizations with the goal of increasing turnout for Democratic candidates in minority communities. The organization publishes the
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The Secure Elections Network is a left-leaning election policy advocacy organization founded in 2020 that attempts to provide left-leaning election administration activists with training and educational tools around election administration. The organization is staunchly supportive of increasing mail-in balloting as well as a set of election administration policies introduced by
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Melissa L. Bradley is an investor, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. She is the founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development fund that invests in whom it calls “black and brown entrepreneurs” so that the “New Majority” can “build wealth.”
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Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was a leading political activist and theorist, social critic, self-described “radical,” and an architect of the modern Left’s structure and approach to advocacy and electioneering. Alinsky pioneered “community organizing,” a form of coalition-building centered on aligning the common goals of multiple interest groups too small or electorally
