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Grist Magazine is an online-only environmentalist magazine that supports left-of-center policy viewpoints. Grist is almost entirely funded by grants, including from major left-of-center grantmaking nonprofits like the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Miami Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2022, Grist had 30 journalists and
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The General Service Foundation (GSF) is a grantmaking organization based in Berkeley, California, which funds a broad range of societal causes, particularly those that promote left-progressive race and gender ideology. The foundation describes its philanthropic strategy as being designed to minimize what it refers to as “power imbalances” which are
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Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. Moskovitz and his wife, former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna, are the founders
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a foundation created by David Packard, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard, in 1964. It supports environmental causes, population control programs, and three programs created by David Packard: the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering. Founder
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The Wyss Foundation is a private foundation established in 1998 by Swiss billionaire and former Synthes CEO Hansjorg Wyss, an environmentalist activist and former CEO of the controversial medical device manufacturer Synthes.
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William J. Brennan Center for Justice (Brennan Center) is a self-described “liberal” 1
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation) is a private foundation established in 1966 by Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett, his wife Flora, and his son Walter.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based activist group that uses science policy and climate change to advocate for left-of-center policies. As an activist organization, UCS began in the late 1960s with opposition to the Vietnam War and U.S. nuclear weapons testing, later coming to oppose peaceful
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The Roosevelt Institute is a left-leaning think tank that asserts that the system of free-market capitalism is inherently unjust. The organization’s full name is The Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. It brings together liberal and Democratic lawmakers, economists, and academics to attempt to reshape policies, from the federal to the
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The Mangrove Foundation is a subsidiary of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focuses its giving on health, social, and politically left-of-center public policy causes in Australia, Bermuda, Ireland, South Africa, the United States, and Vietnam. A philanthropic
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The American Independent Institute, formerly the Center for Independent Media, is a fund for left-wing journalists to conduct deep reporting projects on the “nexus of conservative power in Washington.”
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The Sustainable Markets Foundation is an environmentalist organization pushing for stricter environmental laws and bans on natural gas production. 1 Despite its name, the group is organized as a 501(c)(3) public charity, not a foundation.
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Formerly known as Public Campaign, Every Voice Center is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. 1 The organization is related to and partners with the 501(c)(4) Every Voice. Together, the two groups
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The Pew Charitable Trusts is a public charity formed in 2003 from the merger of seven foundations created by the Pew family, which made its money in the oil business. It operates the Pew Research Center as a subsidiary. Originally founded as the family foundation of conservative- and Republican-leaning
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NEO Philanthropy (formerly Public Interest Projects) is a New York-based nonprofit that serves as a fiscal clearinghouse for left-of-center causes. The group serves as a vehicle for center-left foundations to pool resources, hosts donor-advised funds, and sponsors various liberal projects.
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For the 501(c)(4), see UnidosUS Action Fund (nonprofit) UnidosUs, formerly known as the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) or “La Raza,” is one of the most influential Hispanic organizations in the United States. Meaning “The Race,” La Raza was founded in 1968 as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is an Academy Award-winning actor and environmental activist. He achieved international celebrity for his role in the 1997 James Cameron epic, Titanic.1 He established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998.
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Justice at Stake was an advocacy group promoting restrictions on judicial selection for state courts. The organization supported indirect selection of state judges by panels stacked by state bar associations and opposes judicial elections and federal-style judicial appointment processes.
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Public Citizen, Inc. is a liberal 501(c)(4) lobbying and advocacy organization created by left-wing activist and former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader.1 The organization supports a broad
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The Energy Foundation, also known as the United States Energy Foundation, is a left-of-center “pass through” charitable foundation founded by and supported by a network of left-wing organizations. The Foundation began in January 1991 as a $20 million collaborative between the Pew Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller family foundations, and
