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For-profit
Soros Fund Management is a private investment management firm headquartered in New York. Left-progressive political-donor billionaire George Soros founded the firm in 1973, though its name has changed numerous times throughout its existence. Soros Fund Management operated as a hedge fund until 2011, when it became a family fund,
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Non-profit
Soros Fund Charitable Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded and funded by billionaire George Soros. The foundation is associated with Soros Fund Management, a private investment management firm that Soros founded in 1969.
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Person
Vanessa Wruble is a left-progressive activist and co-founder of the Women’s March. Shortly after the first march in January 2017, Wruble left the Women’s March organization due to what she alleges were anti-Semitic statements by fellow senior March leadership.
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Non-profit
Freedom for Immigrants is a left-of-center immigration advocacy organization. The organization and its founders have close ties to numerous left-wing funding entities and advocacy networks for illegal immigrants. While the majority of the organization’s advocacy is focused on legal and policy work pushing an expansionist immigration agenda, it has also
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 221 is an affiliate of the controversial SEIU labor union representing employees in San Diego and Imperial Counties, California. SEIU Local 221 claims to represent Head Start employees, school employees, and court reporters, along with other county government employees.
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Non-profit
The Colorado Independent is a left-of-center political news website focused on Colorado. The site frames stories and publishes opinion pieces in ways that demonstrate support for liberal expansionist immigration policy including legal status for illegal immigrants, environmentalist initiatives, and gun control. The website was founded by the left-of-center American
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Non-profit
The Aaron and Martha Schecter Private Foundation (also known as SHIFT) makes grants to left-of-center organizations. The Foundation founded in June 1982 in Hollywood, Florida by the family of Aaron Schecter, a Florida property developer with left-of-center political leanings.
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Non-profit
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the assembly of the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in America. The USCCB identifies its purposes as promoting “Catholic activities” across the country and supporting Catholic education, as well as conducting charitable and social work both in the United States
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Non-profit
We The Protesters (WTP) is a left-of-center policing policy organization associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. 1 WTP was founded in 2014 following the police-involved
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Non-profit
Schwab Charitable is a provider of donor-advised funds (DAF), charitable funds through which donors can direct contributions. It is operated by Charles Schwab and Co. The organization is one of many donor-advised fund providers in the United States operated by large financial institutions. The organization is the sixth-largest charitable organization
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Political Party/527
Color of Change PAC is a political action committee closely associated with Color of Change, a left-of-center lobbying group focusing on racial issues and racial-aligned advocacy, and its associated charitable arm Color of Change Education Fund. The organization and its “Voting While Black” mobilization project have endorsed a number of
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Non-profit
Ragtag is a group of left-of-center programmers and lawyers who volunteer to provide technical development and support for left-wing groups. As of 2018, the group has over 600 volunteers. 1 Ragtag is structured as a nonprofit LLC.
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Non-profit
Note: Not to be confused with Documented (New York City), a news site reporting on policy trends impacting immigrants in New York City. Documented is an investigative journalism group that targets right-wing groups and corporations, particularly regarding environmental policy matters. Documented’s “investigations series” include “The Republican War on Democracy,”
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Person
Barry Steinhardt is a left-progressive civil liberties and privacy activist who has held a number of positions with the ACLU and its state-level affiliates.
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Non-profit
The Proteus Action League (PAL) is the 501(c)(4) lobbying and advocacy arm of the Proteus Fund. PAL supports and opposes specific legislation and referenda regarding the death penalty, campaign financing, the LGBT interests, and other issues in which the Proteus Fund is actively involved.
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Non-profit
Muslim Justice League (MJL) is a left-of-center advocacy group primarily focused on opposition to police power in Massachusetts and federal programs targeted at suppressing radical Islamist extremism. Though focused on issues specific to American Muslims, the organization supports wider left-of-center policy goals. Opposition to “Countering Violent Extremism” Programs Muslim Justice
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Non-profit
The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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Person
Lamis Deek is a Palestinian-American lawyer, activist for controversial Palestinian initiatives, and opponent of the State of Israel’s existence. 1 She is a member of
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Person
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 1 In the mid-1980s
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with Demand Progress Action (PAC) Demand Progress Action (DPA) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for policies relating to foreign policy and civil liberties.
