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Steven Witkoff is a real estate investor, landlord, philanthropist, and the founder of the Witkoff Group. 1
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The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) is a philanthropic coalition for 157 Jewish federations and nearly 400 Jewish communities across the continent. 14 The group came from a 1999 merger of the
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Aileen Getty is a philanthropist focused on supporting climate change activists who practice civic disruption. She is the granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who was described as the richest man in the world in the 1960s.
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The Zakat Foundation of America, also known simply as the Zakat Foundation, is a global Islamic charitable organization based in Bridgeview, Illinois, that offers aid to impoverished communities around the world. 50
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Charity and Security Network (C&SN) is an advocate for civil society organizations working in areas where known terrorist groups are present, with a focus on the Palestinian territories. It was founded with funding from Open Society Foundations and sponsorship from the Center for Effective Government, formerly OMB Watch.
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The Institute of International Education oversees and manages international educational exchange initiatives for individuals in the United States and overseas. The nonprofit receives donations from left-leaning organizations, such as the Ford Foundation. Background The Institute of International Education (IIE) was established in 1919 by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nicholas
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Foundation for Louisiana (FFL) is a left-of-center grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship organization that works in areas of “racial healing,” gender issues, environmentalism, and left-of-center economic policy in that state. Although its gender program was started in 2015, it is still in its formation and funding stage.
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The Higherlife Foundation is an African-based private grantmaking foundation that prioritizes funding educational projects and scholarships for African children, including the Capernaum scholarship, which focuses on orphaned and disadvantaged children in Zimbabwe, and the Joshua Nkomo scholarship, which focuses on students that have performed exceptionally well on examinations.
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The Seattle Foundation is a nonprofit organization that in 2021 provided over $196 million in grants to left-of-center groups in the Seattle, Washington area. 160 It states that it seeks
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Commentary Inc. is the publisher of Commentary, a monthly opinion magazine that was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Committee. Commentary has consistently focused its content on American intellectual life, covering topics like the fate of democracy, the future of Jewish people and culture in Israel, the U.S., and
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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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The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is a major philanthropic organization backed by major players in the film industry, the music industry, and other American entertainment industries. Founded in 1942 by several leading figures in Hollywood, the foundation claims to have raised more than $1 billion throughout its existence and contributes
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The Scaife Family Foundation was created by Jennie Scaife and David Scaife, the children of Richard Mellon Scaife, who was the grandnephew of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Mellon. Though it had previously supported right-leaning policy organizations, the foundation now mostly supports animal welfare, family preservation, and addiction-recovery programs. Pittsburgh Origins
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Catholic Charities USA (CCU) is an umbrella group for local charities throughout the United States affiliated with the Catholic Church. It is the largest social safety net provider in the United States after the federal government.
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Vasser Seydel is an environmentalist and a philanthropist. She is the daughter of environmentalist Laura Turner Seydel and the granddaughter of CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner. Seydel is a campaign director for The Oxygen Project, an organization that her father, Rutherford Seydel, founded. Currently, she is working
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James O’Sullivan is a left-of-center activist and career nonprofit manager. While he works as a senior staffer of Stand Up To Cancer, an organization ostensibly dedicated to fighting cancer, he previously spent decades at organizations promoting left-of-center policies and social movements. He formerly worked as a program officer for the
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Start Small is the grantmaking LLC fund of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. 252 Dorsey announced in April 2020 that he would be giving $1 billion of his equity in his company Square, or 28
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The Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 by popular Barbadian singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty, who performs under her middle name. 259 The CLF mainly offers disaster relief, education, and health services to countries
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The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is a project of the Tides Foundation dedicated to providing logistical and database support to other left-of-center nonprofits, including the Working Families Party, Common Cause, and Greenpeace. After the near collapse of the Democratic Party’s digital information platform during the 2024 election,
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Amos Hostetter is a billionaire businessman and philanthropist who lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He is the co-founder of the Barr Foundation, which focuses on grantmaking on environmentalist programs addressing climate change.
