Search results for ‘smithsonian’


  • For-profit

    Enid Lee Consultants

    Enid Lee Consultants is an educational consulting firm based in California that provides critical race theory-aligned “antiracism” workshops, consulting, and speeches on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Enid Lee Consultants was founded and is led by Enid Lee, a left-of-center activist.
  • Non-profit

    S.T.A.N.D. Foundation

    The STAND Foundation, short for Staying True to America’s National Destiny Foundation, is a conservative-leaning nonprofit founded by E.W. Jackson, a pastor and conservative activist in Virginia.
  • Person

    Ibram X. Kendi

    Ibram X. Kendi is a professor, activist, and author most known for pioneering the radical-left ideology of “antiracism,” which claims that any racial inequalities are inherently the result of racist policies. Kendi has argued that there is no such thing as being “non-racist,” and that in order to avoid being
  • Non-profit

    Andes Amazon Fund

    The Andes Amazon Fund is an environmentalist organization focused on the Andes Mountains and Amazon rainforest regions of South America. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit within the Arabella Advisors funding network of left-of-center advocacy, cultural, and environmental projects.
  • Government Agency

    Biden-Harris Transition

    The Biden-Harris Transition refers to the process of transitioning the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As part of that
  • Non-profit

    Woodtiger Fund

    Woodtiger Fund is a Pennsylvania-based foundation that primarily funds environmentalist projects, especially opposition to natural gas exploration. The organization also funds environmentalist journalism and wildlife conservation projects. The fund is an offshoot of the Wallace Global Fund, which traces its roots to a foundation created by former U.S. Vice
  • Person

    Kandace Montgomery

    Kandace Montgomery is a left-wing anti-police organizer based out of Minneapolis. She is a co-founder and leading member of the Black Visions Collective (BVC) activist group, and she helped found Reclaim the Block (RTB), which has lobbied the Minneapolis City Council to defund law enforcement. She has previously worked
  • Person

    Shaun King

    Jeffery Shaun King is a left-of center political activist and social media personality. His 2014 Twitter-based coverage of the police-shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has been credited with helping create momentum for the Black Lives Matter movement.
  • For-profit

    DiversityInc

    DiversityInc is a for-profit company which focuses on promoting sex and ethnic diversity in the corporate workspace. It was founded in 1997 by Luke Visconti, who continued as chairman as of April 19, 2020.
  • Person

    Robert Raben

    Robert Raben is a left-progressive lobbyist and political operative who has served Democratic politicians and left-of-center issues for decades. 1 He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and their causes ranging from
  • Non-profit

    Doctors Without Borders

    Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, is an international aid organization which specializes in providing medical care. It was founded in 1971 by doctors and journalists who wanted to provide medical care and atrocity awareness without consideration of national boundaries.
  • Non-profit

    AG Foundation

    The AG Foundation, formerly known as the Agnes Gund Foundation, is the private foundation created by left-of-center philanthropist and arts patron Agnes Gund. Most of the foundation’s grantmaking goes towards supporting the arts. Founding and History The AG Foundation was established in 1988 as the Agnes Gund Foundation by
  • Person

    Jason Franklin

    Jason Franklin is a co-founder of the left-of-center Solidaire Network. 1 Franklin has spent over twenty years engaged with left-progressive philanthropy.
  • Non-profit

    Blue Frontier Campaign

    Blue Frontier Campaign is an environmentalist group that advocates for more restrictions on commercial activity in oceanic waters comprising the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and for a single federal agency to implement a unitary National Ocean Policy that will supersede local, state, and tribal governments and interests. The
  • Person

    Harry Belafonte

    Harry Belafonte was an award-winning African American singer, actor, and liberal political activist from New York City. Belafonte, a veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, endorsed a number of far- and extremist-left positions, at one point in 2012 musing that then-President Barack Obama should “put all these guys in
  • Non-profit

    Colcom Foundation

    The Colcom Foundation is a grantmaking organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides funding to advocacy groups that deal with causes related to immigration restriction, family policy, and environmental conservation. The foundation frames these issues as part of a larger global crisis which it describes as a “sixth mass extinction”
  • Non-profit

    Chicken & Egg Pictures

    Chicken and Egg Pictures is an organization providing financial support to left-aligned female nonfiction filmmakers. Founded in 2005, the organization was originally a fiscally sponsored project of the left-wing Tides Center. Chicken and Egg Pictures became an independent organization in 2016, though its fund at Tides Center remains active.
  • Non-profit

    National Congress of American Indians Fund

    The National Congress of American Indians Fund is the 501(c)(3) education arm of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), a lobbying group that represents treaty-recognized tribal governments. The NCAI and the NCAI Fund are located in Washington, D.C.
  • Person

    Darren Walker

    For more please see Ford Foundation. Since 2013 Darren Walker has been President of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest left-leaning granting foundations in the United States.
  • Person

    Kenneth Chenault

    Kenneth Chenault is the chairman and chief executive of General Catalyst Partners. He formerly served as the CEO of American Express, and now serves on boards with AirBnB, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and NCAA. He is a donor to both Democratic and Republican candidates.