Search results for ‘texas public policy foundation’


  • Non-profit

    Heritage Foundation

    The Heritage Foundation is a right-of-center policy think tank founded in 1973 that researches and recommends policies such as free markets, limited government, a strong national defense, and courts that adhere to the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
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    Great Plains Public Policy Institute

    The Great Plains Public Policy Institute (GPPPI) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that supports policies promoting free enterprise and individual liberty in South Dakota. GPPPI  publishes research and commentary on policies focused on South Dakota’s economy, education, and government spending and taxation.
  • Non-profit

    KnowledgeWorks Foundation

    The KnowledgeWorks Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes left-of-center public education policies involving the implementation of blockchain technologies into the public school system. The organization has advocated for the public education system to train students for a future dominated by automation, alleging that many of today’s jobs will no
  • Non-profit

    Local Progress (Local Progress Policy Action)

     Local Progress (officially Local Progress Policy Action) is an advocacy group advancing left-of-center policies and ideologies at the municipal level across America. 1 Together with its charitable arm Local Progress Policy Institute and with
  • Non-profit

    Faith in Texas

    Faith in Texas is a Texas-based organization with an interfaith structure focused on advancing a left-leaning approach to social matters. It is a member of the national Faith in Action coalition of religious-left community organizing groups. Issues Faith in Texas has four primary campaigns: Live Free Texas, LA RED, Voter Engagement, and
  • Movement

    Public Funds Public Schools

    Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) is a teachers’ union-aligned campaign started by the controversial left-wing extremism watchdog Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), its affiliated SPLC Action Fund, the teachers’ union-funded litigation group Education Law Center, and the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson.
  • Non-profit

    Sparkplug Foundation

    The Sparkplug Foundation is a left-wing grant making organization that assists start-up and smaller left-of-center groups. 1 Sparkplug Foundation has provided support to anti-Israel groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement
  • Non-profit

    Overbrook Foundation

    The Overbrook Foundation is a New York City-based grantmaking foundation founded in 1948 by investor Frank Altschul and his wife Helen. Today, the Overbrook Foundation’s grants are focused on funding for left-of-center groups supporting social liberalism and environmentalism. Overbrook has an endowment of $150 million and has donated more than
  • Non-profit

    Fund for Policy Reform

    The Fund for Policy Reform is a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization founded and funded by left-of-center megadonor George Soros within his Open Society Foundations network of groups. The Fund for Policy Reform provides grants to left-of-center organizations, most notably in drug policy, criminal justice, and election administration policy, in
  • Non-profit

    Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium

    The Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium (TEGAC) is a grant-making organization comprised of 50 foundations involved in supporting advocacy for increased taxpayer funding for public education in Texas. 1 Its strategies include lobbying for more
  • Non-profit

    Emgage Foundation

    The Emgage Foundation, Inc. (formerly Emgage USA) is a Muslim-American advocacy and voter mobilization group. It is associated with Emgage PAC, a political action committee that raises money for and endorses candidates for Congress and state legislative seats. Emgage Foundation also has a 501(c)(4) affiliated organization Emgage
  • Non-profit

    Texas Civil Rights Project

    The Texas Civil Rights Project is a is a left-leaning legal organization that provides legal services to illegal immigrants and opposes election integrity measures. James C. Harrington founded in the Texas Civil Rights Project in 1990. He was a supporter of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. The
  • Non-profit

    Youth Rise Texas

    Youth Rise Texas is an Austin, Texas-based minority youth-focused advocacy organization founded in 2015. 1
  • Non-profit

    JEHT Foundation

    The JEHT Foundation was a left-of-center grantmaking nonprofit based in New York City. The Foundation’s name was an acronym for “Justice, Equality, Human Dignity and Tolerance.” The Foundation made the bulk of its grants in support of left-of-center criminal justice and electoral policy implementation. The Foundation also funded efforts to
  • Non-profit

    Texas Organizing Project (TOP)

    The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) is a left-leaning 501(c)(4) nonprofit group that focuses on organizing minority and low-income individuals in Texas’s largest metropolitan areas. Activities “Racial Justice” Donations In July 2020, it was announced that the Sandler Foundation would be donating $200 million to “racial justice groups” in response
  • Political Party/527

    Republican Main Street Partnership

    The Republican Main Street Partnership is a group that supports moderate Republican members of Congress. It has been backed in the past by labor unions. The group exists to counter the influence of more conservative members of Congress and calls itself the “governing wing of the Republican Party.” The group
  • Non-profit

    AIDS Healthcare Foundation

    The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a California-based organization that provides medical services to people with HIV/AIDS. The organization has also funded, sponsored, and supported left-wing ballot initiatives on drug prices, housing, and other issues in California and across the country. The organization is led by one of its co-founders,
  • Non-profit

    Tara Health Foundation

    The Tara Health Foundation is a grantmaking foundation that funds pro-abortion groups and abortion-rights-related causes. It was founded in 2014 by former Kaiser Permanente researcher Ruth Shaber, who is executive director and board chair.
  • Non-profit

    Washington State Public Interest Research Group (WASHPIRG) Foundation

    Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) Foundation is the policy research arm of the Washington Public Interest Research Group. It is the Washington state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) Education Fund, a national left-progressive policy advocacy coalition within the Public Interest Network of left-of-center
  • Non-profit

    Simons Foundation

    The Simons Foundation is a private foundation founded by left-leaning Renaissance Technologies hedge fund founder James Simons and his wife, Marilyn. The Foundation funds research in four broad areas: mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, autism research, and “Outreach & Education.” The Foundation conducts its own research through the Flatiron