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Scenic Hudson, Inc. is a left-leaning climate advocacy nonprofit that is active on issues involving the Hudson River in New York. Scenic Hudson has been opposed to the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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The Long Island Progressive Coalition is a far-left organization based in Long Island, New York State. The organization works to organize left-of-center activists to promote liberal policy issues on both Long Island and statewide. The organization has campaigned on various issues such as raising income tax rates for those making
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The William H. Donner Foundation is a family foundation controlled by 29 descendants of William Henry Donner (1864-1953). Although best known for its grants to center-right advocacy organizations, it appears to have reduced this grantmaking in the past decade to increase grants for animal protection and environmentalist causes. History Donner
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The William E. Simon Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation that intends to help inner-city youth and families gain greater access to education and other community-based services. The Foundation’s goal is to empower families to find independence and personal success so they may more fully participate in a free, democratic
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The Searle Freedom Trust is a private foundation created by Daniel C. Searle, chief executive officer with G.D. Searle, a pharmaceutical company. The trust, which primarily funds center-right public policy organizations, is scheduled to terminate in 2025. Daniel C. Searle Daniel C. Searle was the great-grandson of Gideon Daniel Searle,
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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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The Lilly Endowment was created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly Sr. and his two sons, J.K. Lilly Jr. and Eli Lilly, who also headed the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company. Although the endowment and the company are legally separate, the endowment remains a substantial shareholder in the company. The
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The Kovner Foundation is the philanthropic vehicle of Bruce Kovner, founder of the Caxton Corporation hedge fund. Kovner, who has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute since 1989, was chairman of the AEI board from 2002-08, and has been a trustee of the Manhattan Institute and
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The Gilder Foundation is a private charitable foundation established by Richard Gilder, founder of New York City-based brokerage firm, Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Company. 1 The foundation contributes to a wide array of
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The Dunn Foundation (formerly Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking) is a family foundation based in Delaware that makes grants to right-of-center organizations that advance libertarian principles of free enterprise, smaller government, deregulation, private property rights, and individual liberty.
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The National Wildlife Federation is one of the nation’s largest and highest-profile environmentalist organizations. In recent years, along with its associated NWF Action Fund advocacy organization, it has transitioned from being a conservation organization representing the interests of hunters and outdoor recreation enthusiasts into a left-leaning pressure group focused on
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is one of America’s largest, most controversial, and most politically involved labor unions. The SEIU, which represents building services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and public employees, is noted for its close ties to the broader left-of-center movement, perhaps most notably the controversial now-defunct
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The Ford Foundation was, for much of its history, the largest foundation in the United States, though it has been passed in recent years. As of December 2014, it possessed assets of $12.5 billion.1 The
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The Jean I. and Charles H. Brunie Foundation was the philanthropic vehicle of Charles H. Brunie (1930-2017), the longtime chairman of Oppenheimer Capital investment advisors. Brunie was a trustee (and for a period the chairman) of the Manhattan Institute, a right-leaning think tank focused on urban policy, and was
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The Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) was founded in 2001 by civil rights activists who claimed that there was a rise in anti-Muslim discrimination and hate crimes after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A major point of contention for MLFA was the 2002 creation of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration
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Person
Yanis Varoufakis is a radical-left Greek economist and politician who served as Greece’s finance minister in 2015. 1 Varoufakis
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NextEra Energy is the world’s largest utility company. It has a presence in 49 states and four Canadian provinces. 1 It has two principal business interests, Florida Power & Light Company and NextEra Energy Resources.
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The Michael Tuch Foundation is a family-run philanthropic organization that donates primarily to performing arts centers, museums, and organizations that support low-income residents in New York City. The Foundation is a private nonprofit organization and receives most its funding from trading stocks and bonds.
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The Theodore Luce Charitable Trust is a nonexempt charitable trust which allocates its philanthropic contributions to youth organizations located in New York City. Founder Theodore Luce was a 1920’s and Depression-era investment banker, automobile dealer, and New York City landlord. His early career was spent as a financier and director
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Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) is a New York City-based organization that seeks to prevent arrest among young people, avoid pretrial detention, prevent incarceration, and reduce and eliminate recidivism. CASES operates a clinic that provides counseling, psychiatric services and medication, mentoring, legal services, housing and employment assistance,
