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Other Group
Public Interest Technology University Network Challenge Fund (Challenge) is a competition for universities to apply for grants that further public interest technology with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The Challenge is an initiative by the left-of-center New America Foundation that has provided grants on social justice,
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Other Group
The Democracy Funders Network (DFN) is a collaboration initiative for left-leaning grantmakers. Members of the network coordinate their philanthropic efforts and identify causes in which to invest their money. Causes that DFN and its members support include the perceived threat of right-leaning populist movements and the alleged need to restructure
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Other Group
Collective Courage Fund is an unincorporated political action project dedicated “to building a robust cooperative movement of urban and rural black cooperatives.” A joint effort among the New Venture Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Partnership Funds, the Partnership Action Fund, the National Black Food and
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Other Group
Propel Democracy Forward Fund (PDFF) is a left-of-center fund that supports civic engagement and organizing efforts at the state level. The group has targeted politically competitive states with year-round activism since its founding by Propel Capital Network in 2016.
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Non-profit
Liberation Ventures (LV) is a fiscally sponsored project of PolicyLink that gives grants to nonprofits that promote race-based reparations in the United States. LV primarily focuses on encouraging cultural change but seeks the eventual enactment of reparations policies at the federal level. Goals According to Liberation Ventures, the United
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Non-profit
Fenomenal Funds is a left-of-center funding collaborative that directs funds from major left-of-center grantmaking foundations to 44 separate funds that are members of the Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF), a left-of-center global network of local and national women’s funding groups. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of the
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Non-profit
The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Giving Fund (WKF) is a family philanthropy focused on left-of-center immigration policy. It is managed by trustees Edward Kissam and Jo Ann Intili. It is organized as a donor-advised charitable giving fund within Fidelity Charitable.
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Non-profit
The Impetus Fund is a left-of-center Washington D.C-based 501(c)(4)” dark money” organization 1 founded in July 2020 and managed by the Arabella Advisors consulting firm.
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Non-profit
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gifts Fund is a grantmaking organization which receives contributions from current and former employees of Goldman Sachs, a multinational financial services firm that is one of the most influential investing institutions in the world. The fund, which does business under the name “Goldman Sachs Gives,”
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Non-profit
The Sequoia Climate Fund is an environmentalist grantmaking organization that advocates for policy solutions to climate change as well as transitioning to clean energy usage. 1 The organization initially branched off from fundraising network organization
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For-profit
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance (RHIA), also known as Rhia Ventures, 1 is an investment firm that prioritizes left-leaning reproductive health initiatives, including maternal health, contraception availability, and abortion access, with a focus
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Non-profit
Lilith Fund is an abortion advocacy organization that operates an abortion hotline and offers abortion funding support to individuals in Texas. 1 It is also known as the “National Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund”
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Other Group
Supermajority Education Fund is a left-of-center advocacy group focusing on social issues such as abortion and male-female pay equity. The organization is fiscally sponsored by the New Venture Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship vehicle managed by Arabella Advisors. It was founded by prominent leftwing activists including
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Non-profit
Christensen Fund is a private foundation originally started to acquire art that focuses on assisting indigenous people and communities internationally. In the United States, the fund makes grants to Native American populations but has also supported left-of-center nonprofits. Christensen Fund has encouraged racial reparations payments in California and supports left-of-center
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Non-profit
America’s Frontier Fund is a nonprofit venture capital fund that aims to help incentivize microchip manufacturing in the United States. It was founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and right-of-center PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The organization has described itself as “the nation’s first deep-tech fund that
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
Youth First State Advocacy Fund is a pooled donor fund focused on abolishing youth imprisonment. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors characterized by critics as part of a multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network.
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Non-profit
The Public Interest Technology Infrastructure Fund is a project of the New Venture Fund. It does not have a website and as a project it is not required to disclose independent financial information or activities. Its funders include left-of-center grantmaking organizations, including the Ford Foundation and Pivotal
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Non-profit
Blue Ventures is an environmental advocacy group based in Bristol, United Kingdom that focuses on marine and coastal conservation, with an emphasis on regulation of commercial fishing. Much of its policy advocacy involves severely curtailing, or eliminating completely, the use of trawl-fishing. It also works to steer smaller communities away
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Non-profit
19th News (sometimes known as “the 19th” or the “19th*”) is a left-of-center online media outlet focused on American and international politics related to women, especially women of color. Founding 19th News was founded in 2019 by press veterans Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora. Ramshaw was frustrated by how traditional
