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Non-profit
The Century Foundation is a left-of-center think tank founded in 1919 by Filene’s department stores magnate Edward Filene as the Cooperative League to encourage business leaders to fight the growth of conservatism. It researches from its left-of-center position and communicates the results via books, articles, position papers and events that
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Non-profit
Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
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Non-profit
National Center for Fair and Open Testing (also known as FairTest) is an education policy organization that advocates for ending standardized testing and making college-admission tests optional. 1 FairTest has taken funding from teachers’ unions and
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Non-profit
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a foreign policy institute based in Washington, D.C., that focuses its research and advocacy on national security and foreign policy issues. FDD supports an activist foreign policy for the United States and advocates on issues that it considers priorities for American foreign policy.
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Non-profit
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is a left-wing litigation and advocacy group focused on immigration, election procedure, and Census and demographic interest issues. Founded in the late 1960s with extensive financial support from the left-wing Ford Foundation which continues through the present day, MALDEF is
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Non-profit
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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Non-profit
The John William Pope Foundation is a family foundation based in North Carolina that derived its wealth from Variety Wholesalers, a regional retail store chain. Under the leadership James Arthur “Art” Pope, son of John William Pope, the Pope Foundation supports both national and North Carolina-focused center-right organizations and charities
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Non-profit
The Ed Foundation is the creation of Jeff Sandefer, founder of Sandefer Offshore, an oil exploration company. Sandefer has also created the Acton School of Business, a graduate business school in Austin, Texas, and with his wife, Laura Sandefer, the Acton Academy, a national network of private schools. A recent
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Non-profit
Founded in 1968 the Bialkin Family Foundation funds organizations that support the eradication of anti-Semitism, spread the popularity of the arts, expand education opportunities, and improve relations between Israel and the United States.
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Non-profit
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) is one of the charitable entities associated with billionaire Berkshire Hathaway investor Warren Buffett, who funds the Foundation. Founded in 1964 as the Buffett Foundation, STBF was later renamed for Warren’s late first wife Susan, whose estate granted the Foundation over $2 billion.
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Non-profit
Educational Foundation of America (EFA) is a major left-of-center grant maker that funds environmentalist, educational, and voter-mobilization initiatives. EFA purports to be a family foundation that aims to create a society with “an inclusive democracy,” in which each person has “unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom” and lives on a
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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
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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Non-profit
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
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Political Party/527
American Bridge 21st Century, also known by its official PAC name AB PAC 1 is a Democratic Party super PAC founded by David Brock on November 23, 2010.
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Non-profit
Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel
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Non-profit
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (also known as the MacArthur Foundation) was the twelfth largest foundation in the United States in 2014 with total assets over $6 billion.
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Non-profit
The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation (also known as the Clinton Foundation and originally named the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation) is a global philanthropic organization created and run by former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their daughter, liberal pundit Chelsea
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Other Group
The Chicago Monitor is a left-of-center online publication closely associated with the Chicago chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago). The paper was founded in 2012 by Ahmed Rehab and Aymen Abdel Halim, both senior staff at CAIR-Chicago.
