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The Barr Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation created in 1987 by telecommunications billionaire1 Amos Barr Hostetter, Jr. and largely endowed from the proceeds of the $10.8 billion sale of Continental Cablevision to US
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The Amalgamated Charitable Foundation is a donor-advised fund that was spun off from the Service Employees International Union-owned Amalgamated Bank in 2017. 16 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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ChevronTexaco Foundation, formerly known as the Texaco Foundation, was a private foundation that distributed grants to scientific, educational, and charitable causes, including international charities. 32 As of March 2022, the ChevronTexaco
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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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Neighborhood Funders Group is a left-of-center philanthropic membership organization and grant maker. Its members and funding partners include some of the most powerful groups in left-of-center philanthropy. Its funding areas and strategies are influenced by concepts like critical race theory, decoloniality, organized labor, wealth redistribution, LGBTQ advocacy, and climate justice.
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Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of technology giant Microsoft. He is also the co-founder of the Gates Foundation along with his previous wife Melinda French Gates.
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The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation was created by Winthrop Rockefeller, the youngest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who served two two-year terms as governor of Arkansas between 1967 and 1971. The foundation primarily funds social service programs in Arkansas. While Winthrop Rockefeller had served as a Republican, the Foundation vows
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The Righteous Persons Foundation (RPF) is a nonprofit organization, established by American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, that uses art and storytelling to advocate social justice for the Jewish community. 154 It makes grants for Jewish
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Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) is the independent American branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), one of the largest Islamic charities in the world. 164 IRUSA supports charitable efforts
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, development, and pro-international-migration nongovernmental organization (NGO). 220 IRC has supported Biden administration efforts to expand pathways for refugee
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The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group that is active on a variety of public policy issues. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with 2020 revenues totaling approximately $6.9 million. Since 2021, its executive director has been Tope Folarin.
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Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is an environmentalist advocacy group that coordinates projects to retrofit houses with energy-saving equipment across the United States and advocates for the expansion of federal environmental programs.
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MPower Change is a left-of-center advocacy project of NEO Philanthropy 562 focusing on American Muslims co-founded by controversial activist Linda Sarsour, who remains the group’s
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The American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international philanthropic organization that funds disaster relief and left-of-center social activist initiatives abroad. Founded in 1985 with the primary goal of helping address humanitarian crises around the world, the organization has since expanded into an operation of more than $30 million per
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a membership society that hosts programs and publishes scientific studies in the United States. Established by a Congressional charter in 1863, NAS operates as an independent nonprofit organization that advises the federal government on scientific issues and conducts studies on its behalf.
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James E. Casey (1888-1983), the founder of United Parcel Service, and his family created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 1948. When Casey died, the foundation received much of his estate, and the endowment doubled when, in 1999, UPS raised $5.47 billion from an initial public offering. The Annie E.
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The Turner Foundation is a grantmaking nonprofit associated with the family of billionaire media executive Ted Turner. The Foundation primarily supports environmental conservation efforts, but also contributes to left-of-center environmental advocacy groups. Among the Foundation’s initial goals was “developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates,” a long-running
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The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
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Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Over its 100+ year history The NAACP has grown exponentially to what is now a network of more than 2,200 affiliates covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Japan
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Thomas Fahr “Tom” Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire turned climate-change activist, and major political donor to environmental causes and Democrats advocating an environmentalist agenda to fight global warming. Steyer made his fortune as the co-founder and senior managing partner of Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund worth $30 billion.
