Search results for ‘texas public policy foundation’


  • Non-profit

    Laura and John Arnold Foundation

    The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
  • Non-profit

    Eugene McDermott Foundation

    The Eugene McDermott Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Dallas, Texas. The organization has given to left-leaning organizations, including affiliates of the abortion network Planned Parenthood and the left-of-center Texas state-level policy group Center for Public Policy Priorities. Texas Instruments industrialist and philanthropist Eugene McDermott created
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    Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

    The Bloomberg Family Foundation is the $7 billion foundation1 created by left-leaning Democratic billionaire and former Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg. Bloomberg,
  • Non-profit

    National Public Pension Coalition

    The National Public Pension Commission (NPPC) is a labor-union-aligned left-of-center advocacy group which supports maintaining and expanding pension programs for government employees. The organization oversees a network of 15 state-level nonprofits and publishes research on the benefits of public pensions. The NPCC has close ties to numerous prominent government worker
  • For-profit

    The New Republic

    The New Republic (TNR) is a left-of-center opinion journal founded in 1914 and originally intended as a platform to promote the ideas of its first managing editor, Herb Croly, who advocated for a more powerful federal government, wealth redistribution, much more powerful labor unions, increased regulation on business, and higher taxes.
  • Non-profit

    ACLU Foundation of Texas

    The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the educational and litigation arm of the ACLU of Texas, the Texas state-level affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) social-liberal lobbying, litigation, and campaigning group. The ACLU Foundation of Texas supports left-of-center positions through courtroom activism and advocacy efforts geared
  • Non-profit

    Open Society Policy Center

    The Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) is a lobbying group associated with the Open Society Network and the Open Society Foundations, the principal advocacy philanthropic efforts of left-of-center financial billionaire George Soros. From May 2002 to April 2023, OSPC has reported spending over $161 million on lobbying.
  • Non-profit

    JPB Foundation

    The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 1 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the
  • Non-profit

    JK Irwin Foundation

    The JK Irwin Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in San Francisco focused primarily on criminal justice policy, including prison reform and drug abuse treatment reform. 1 John Irwin, a university professor and
  • Non-profit

    Industrial Areas Foundation

    Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a left-of-center community and interfaith organizing organization founded in 1940 by a group of business and faith leaders including far-left activist Saul Alinsky, who authored the book Rules for Radicals. The organization took on its current form in the early 1970s following Alinsky’s death
  • Non-profit

    Mountain States Legal Foundation

    The Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) is a public-interest law firm. MSLF’s mission is to protect individual liberty, property rights, and support the principles of limited government by litigating cases to protect citizens’ Constitutional rights.
  • Non-profit

    Lakeside Foundation

    The Lakeside Foundation is a California-based private foundation. It was founded in 1956. The organization contributes mostly to educational and health related non-profits. In addition to those charitable contributions, the organization donates to a handful of center-right advocacy causes. Leadership The Lakeside Foundation does not report compensating any of its
  • Non-profit

    Hirsch Family Foundation

    The Hirsch Family Foundation (HFF) is a private family foundation based in Dallas Texas.  HFF funds a wide variety of charitable initiatives including scholarships, medical research, the arts, Jewish community interests, and foreign policy research. Between 2010 and 2017, HFF donated more than $5.2 million to the Center for European
  • Non-profit

    Dodge Jones Foundation

    The Dodge Jones Foundation was a family foundation devoted to civic projects in Abilene, Texas and supporting center-right advocacy nonprofits. The foundation shut down in December 2018 after transferring $28 million in assets to the Dodge Jones Legacy Foundation, which began operations in 2019. Background The Dodge Jones foundation was
  • Non-profit

    Annenberg Foundation

    The Annenberg Foundation is a private foundation headquartered in Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California, which focuses grants in the greater Los Angeles area as well as nationally. The foundation was founded by billionaire publisher and Nixon administration U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg, who was among the most prominent
  • Non-profit

    Public Citizen Foundation

    The Public Citizen Foundation is an advocacy organization founded in 1992 to support the lobbying of Public Citizen. Public Citizen is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader that opposes the free-market interests of American business owners.
  • Non-profit

    ClimateWorks Foundation

    The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
  • Non-profit

    Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF)

    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.
  • Non-profit

    Educational Foundation of America (EFA)

    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
  • Non-profit

    David and Lucile Packard Foundation

    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