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Non-profit
Clean Elections Texas is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates for policy that restricts campaign speech under the guise of campaign finance reform and government funding of political campaigns. 1 It is a member of
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Political Party/527
Real Justice PAC was founded by Shaun King, Becky Bond, Zack Malitz, and Michael Kieschnick in 2017 to push left-of-center policing and criminal justice policies. Real Justice PAC supports county prosecutors or district attorneys who support limiting or eliminating cash bail, restricting policing practices that left-of-center activist groups deem
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Person
Ron Unz is a financially successful former investment industry and software entrepreneur. Since 2013, he has been the publisher of the Unz Review, a website notable for spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, especially about U.S. policies related to Israel and the Middle East. Unz Review writers, including Unz himself, have
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Non-profit
The Volcker Alliance was established in 2013 by former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker to expand and empower government by attracting a larger and more skilled civil service workforce. 1 The Volcker Alliance advocates for
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Non-profit
Chino Cienega Foundation (CCF) is a California-based private grantmaking foundation that funds environmentalist activism and advocacy related to the effects of the Vietnam War. Chino Cienega maintains no paid staff, but is completely run by its board of directors and advisory board.
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Non-profit
The Denver Foundation is a private charity that specializes in managing and administering grants from donor-advised funds and other charitable fund formats. The group was established in 1925 and is particularly focused on helping donors in the Denver area. Because of the donor-advised nature of so many of the foundations
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Other Group
All-In Nation is a book and blog released by PolicyLink and the Center for American Progress that promotes local policies that use government power to equalize interethnic socioeconomic disparities. PolicyLink and Center for American Progress co-produced a book to promote the ideology that both groups have in common and have released a
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Non-profit
The Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ) is a public interest law firm that focuses on racial and economic issues in the state of Mississippi. The center has also provided legal support for left-of-center causes such as challenging pro-life laws in the state
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Non-profit
The Puffin Foundation West (also known as Puffin West) is a private foundation based in Columbus, Ohio, that primarily gives grants to apolitical nonprofits with an artistic focus, with occasional grants going to left-of-center groups. This foundation is the sister organization of the Puffin Foundation in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Non-profit
The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (SCAA) is a left-of-center think tank focused on government funding for poverty programs in New York. It advocates for legislation on government provided health insurance, mostly through Medicaid funding in New York. It also focuses on New York tax allocations for foster care,
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Person
Lesley Carson is the director for the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund’s International Human Rights program. Carson has a long history of work for left-of-center and liberal organizations, and Democratic politicians. 1
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Non-profit
The Anika Foundation is a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that supports economic empowerment, voter engagement, and improved healthcare in African-American communities. It is named after its founder and Executive Director, Anika Robbins, a Civil Rights Commissioner for the City of Minneapolis. Though the Anika Foundation is legally nonpartisan, its voter engagement,
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Non-profit
The Lynn Handleman Charitable Foundation (also known as Left Tilt Fund) is an Oakland, California-based grantmaking organization that supports a broad group of left-of-center advocacy organizations. The foundation gives to labor union-aligned “worker centers,” artistic organizations, radical environmentalist groups, and groups aligned with the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, and sanctions”
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Non-profit
The Abell Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking organization operating in the state of Maryland with a focus on the city of Baltimore. The Foundation focuses on “concentrated poverty” distributing grants on issues ranging from education to environmentalism. Its president, Robert C. Embry, Jr., is a former liberal elected official
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Non-profit
The Kevin J. Mossier Foundation was a Minnesota-based left-of-center foundation that donated towards LGBT-interest advocacy and other related nonprofits. The foundation was founded by and named after Kevin J. Mossier, who was an entrepreneur. The foundation ceased operations in 2014, but the organization morphed into the Mossier Social Action and
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Non-profit
The Morningstar Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Bethesda, Maryland that supports left-of-center organizations, including left-wing Jewish advocacy group Bend the Arc, the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society, and Keshet, a group that advocates for LGBT Jews.
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Non-profit
West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG) is a political advocacy group associated with West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund (WV CAEF). WV CAG supports the Green New Deal and replacing conventional fuels with weather-dependent energy.
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Non-profit
West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund (WV CAEF) is a charitable advocacy organization associated with West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG). WV CAEF signed a June 6, 2022, letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris requesting the use of executive action to
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Non-profit
Rachel Carson Council (RCC) is an environmentalist advocacy organization that writes reports on various industries and advocates for left-of-center policies based on its own work and that of other environmentalist groups. RCC engages in advocacy based around regulating and opposing certain agriculture and farming practices such as pesticide use and
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Non-profit
Floridians for a Fair Shake is a Florida-focused project of the left-of-center “dark money” organization Sixteen Thirty Fund,1 a lobbying and electoral-advocacy group within the $600 million
