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David H. Koch was an industrialist and philanthropist who owned 42 percent of the shares of Koch Industries, a privately held conglomerate. Koch willed his shares to his widow, Julia Koch, and his three children. Forbes estimated in 2022 the shares were worth $60 billion, making Julia Koch the third-richest
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Mighty Arrow Family Foundation is a left-of-center environmentalist 26 and critical race theory-influenced 27 grantmaking foundation
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The Omidyar Network Fund is a grantmaking nonprofit founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam Omidyar. Its sister group, the Omidyar Network, is an LLC that makes philanthropic “impact investments.” Omidyar Network Fund and the Omidyar Network are often referred to interchangeably, and both support
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Digital Liberty is a project of Americans for Tax Reform that advocates for free-market technology, telecommunications, and media policy. 71 A conservative-leaning group, Digital Liberty has opposed Republican efforts to regulate large technology firms through
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The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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The Commission on Information Disorder is a project of the Aspen Institute that was created in March 2021 to conduct a six-month study of alleged misinformation and disinformation on topics including “vaccine safety” and the 2020 presidential election. It is completely funded by the Craig Newmark Foundation.
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This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Nominations and Appointments Tommy Beaudreau was formerly Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, he was a partner at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, and before that
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Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm founded in 1973 that represents clients at no charge. 226 PLF’s founders believed public interest law had drifted into supporting, rather than challenging, government
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The Stainman Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports taxpayer-funded abortion, left-leaning social activism, left-leaning election law organizations, and environmentalist organizations. 277 It was established in by
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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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The Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is a nonpartisan educational organization that publishes Ballotpedia, an online encyclopedia of over 300,000 articles related to American politics and elections. 391 The Lucy Burns Institute has been doing business as
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The Platte Institute for Economic Research is a non-partisan public policy think tank that promotes free enterprise and individual liberty. Its research focuses on government spending, regulatory reform, and tax policy in Nebraska. 406 The Platte
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The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) (formerly the Political Economy Research Center) is a non-partisan, environmental public policy think tank that promotes free market environmentalism and focuses much of its research on voluntary trade’s effects on the environment.
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The Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation is a left-of-center special-interest law firm. The Foundation files lawsuits against companies who produce pollutants and the state of Pennsylvania in order to demand more environmental regulations and restrictions. The Foundation’s biggest victory was a lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania that sought to ban
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Barbara Sargent is a left-of-center philanthropist living in California. Along with her husband, Tom Sargent, Sargent has formed multiple left-of-center foundations. Most notably, Sargent formed the Kalliopeia Foundation, a left-of-center grantmaking organization that funds environmentalist policies, left-of-center Native American interests, and expanded immigration policies. Sargent has poured over $67,625,194
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The International Labor Organization (ILO) is an agency of the United Nations that promulgates standards for worker protection. The ILO is a tripartite organization in which all programs, policies, and standards must be approved by representatives of governments, employers, and workers.
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The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a public interest law firm that specializes in Native American tribal law and representation. Since its founding in 1970, NARF has been one of the most prominent organizations involved in litigation affecting Native American tribes and the development of American Indian law. Founding
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Edgar Villanueva is a left-of-center activist, author and nonprofit executive who is the founder and principal of the Decolonizing Wealth Project, a far-left community organizing group that funds advocacy by activist groups, especially those associated with Native American communities and the Black Lives Matter movement. Villanueva founded the
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The Bobolink Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation created by former Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO and George W. Bush administration Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and his wife, Wendy. It focuses on the conservation of landscapes and wildlife, especially in grasslands and coastal areas throughout the Americas. Overview
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Roger Milliken, Jr. is an environmentalist and major left-of-center donor based in Maine. He is the husband of Margot Milliken and the son of late major conservative donor and textile tycoon Roger Milliken. Milliken, a timber company owner, is an avid environmentalist. He is the former chair of
