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Elon Musk is a South African-born American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known for his role as a founder or co-founder of several high-profile technology firms. Since January 2025, he has worked in the second Trump administration as a White House advisor and as the de facto head
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The Accountable Justice Project was created as a project of Proteus Fund to fund Rob Smith’s criminal justice research and advocacy for reduced sentences and charges for criminals under the guise of criminal justice reform.
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The Othering and Belonging Institute (formerly the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society) is a left-of-center research center within the University of California, Berkeley. 49 The Institute advocates for increasing entitlement spending, increasing government-controlled urban planning,
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Also see Democracy Fund (Non-profit) Democracy Fund Voice is a left-leaning lobbying and electoral advocacy group within the advocacy-philanthropy network of eBay chairman and founder Pierre Omidyar.
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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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Children Now is a left-of-center organization based in Oakland, California that supports higher state spending on education and health care for children. It also advocates for increased welfare-state spending in general.
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FWD.us (also styled Forward US) is a liberal expansionist immigration and criminal justice policy advocacy group based in the United States. It lobbies and advocates for left-of-center expansionist immigration policy, legal status for illegal immigrants in the United States, left-of-center changes to the criminal justice system, and changes to the
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Dream Defenders is a Miami-based “revolutionary organization” 141 that seeks to end capitalism in the United States and replace it with a socialist system.
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Alicia Garza is a California-based activist and a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. 173 Garza’s activism began at an early age, but her rise
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Alianza Americas is a network of Latin American migrant-led organizations that advocate for expanded immigration into the United States. It filed a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) for transporting illegal migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in September 2022.
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Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and solely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.221
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The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) is a left-of-center political research and activist organization which was founded in 2002 and is based in Washington, D.C. The center conducts studies which support its advocacy for its favored economic and social policies, including wealth redistribution, fossil-fuel usage restrictions, and preferential treatment of
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The Windward Fund is an environmentalist fiscal sponsor organization in the network of “dark money” organizations controlled by philanthropic consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Fund was created in February 2015 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with startup funding of $5.25 million provided by an unknown source. According to its bylaws, Windward
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The Open Society Action Fund (OSAF), formerly the Open Society Policy Center, 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.
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The Coalition for Civil Freedoms (CCF) is a coalition of left-of-center civil-rights groups that advocate for Muslims accused of terrorism and their families and for Muslim civil liberties. It claims to do this through research and education, policy advocacy, and direct support of political prisoners and their families.
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Movement Alliance Project (formerly Media Mobilizing Project) is a left-wing community organizing outfit in Philadelphia that funds a variety of left-leaning policy campaigns and organizations. The organization was founded in 2005 to organize left-progressive campaigns around poverty, criminal justice, and public schools. The organization manages several projects including the People’s Media
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The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and Get America Covered.
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The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is a private foundation that provides grants primarily to left-of-center activist groups, with a focus on supporting liberal expansionist immigration policy, LGBT interests, education, and organizations in the San Francisco Bay area.
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The Center for Working Families is a left-of-center advocacy group active in the state of New York and based in Washington, DC. The Center supports increasing taxes in New York State, as well as limiting election-related speech activity on both the national and state level. Center for Working families is
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The Center for International Policy is a non-profit public policy research and advocacy think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. It was founded in 1975 in response to the Vietnam War. Funding Donors to CIP Between 1999 and 2018, CIP received over $20 million from foundations:
