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Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) is a left-of-center private foundation which was formed in 1934 by railroad magnate Louis W. Hill. In 2023, NWAF updated its grantmaking to focus on “racial, social, and economic justice,” aligning more strongly to left-of-center causes.
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The Ottinger Foundation provides financial support to left-of-center groups focused on environmental, labor, and social justice issues. History The Ottinger Foundation achieved tax-exempt status in 1946. 17 The group no longer maintains a website, but as of 2012 the
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The Kohlberg Foundation is a private family foundation founded by private equity billionaire Jerome Kohlberg and his wife Nancy in 1989, based in Mt. Kisco, New York. The foundation provides grants to numerous left-of-center organizations, focused on legal policy related to health programs, the environment, and education.
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The Tow Foundation is a Connecticut-based private grantmaking foundation founded by Leonard and Claire Tow, who also founded the Century Communications Corporation, a cable television company. 35 The organization makes grants in the arts, medical
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The Johnson Family Foundation is a New York City-based left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It is also known as the Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson foundation. Until 2000, the foundation’s giving was oriented more towards education and religious philanthropic causes. But since then, the foundation has become a major contributor
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The Morningstar Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in Bethesda, Maryland, that supports left-of-center organizations including Jewish advocacy group Bend the Arc, the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society, and Keshet, a group that advocates for LGBT Jews.
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The Schooner Foundation is a nonprofit, private foundation established in 1996 by Vincent Ryan, the multimillionaire88 investment
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The Heising-Simons Foundation is a California-based private family foundation led by philanthropists and major Democratic Party donors Liz Simons and her husband Mark Heising. 102 The Heising-Simons Foundation primarily funds organizations that work on environmentalist
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The Google Foundation (also known by its internet address, Google.org) is the corporate charitable arm of Alphabet, Inc., and its subsidiary, Google. It is a major funder of left-wing advocacy, having contributed at least $70 million in the decade between 2007-2016 to organizations such as the Tides Foundation, a provider of
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The Barr Foundation is a Boston-based private foundation created in 1987 by telecommunications billionaire145 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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Mary Reynolds Babcock founded the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (MRBF) as a grantmaking organization in 1953. Like the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, also co-founded by Babcock, MRBF supports left-of-center advocacy organizations in 11 states in the southeastern United States through various means, primarily through grantmaking.
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The McKnight Foundation is a Minnesota-based foundation that funds many programs and organizations, including numerous left-of-center advocacy groups. Among the programs the foundation invests in are the arts, education, environmentalist programs, and international development. Most of the donations to domestic programs are towards programs and initiatives in the Midwest. Overview
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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
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The Aaron and Martha Schecter Private Foundation (also known as SHIFT) makes grants to left-of-center organizations. The Foundation founded in June 1982 in Hollywood, Florida by the family of Aaron Schecter, a Florida property developer with left-of-center political leanings.
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The 444S Foundation is an environmentalist grantmaking organization associated with the family of the late former Sierra Club president Edgar Wayburn.
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Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) is the primary organizational outgrowth of the more decentralized Black Lives Matter movement. According to an Associated Press report from February 2021, BLM Global Network Foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the IRS in December 2020.
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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. 376 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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The Musk Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded in 2002 by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk and his brother, Kimbal. 392 The
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Also see Good Ventures (Nonprofit) The Good Ventures Foundation was created by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna in 2012. It was originally set up as a fund for Good Ventures, a related public charity that closed at the end of 2018.
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The Hill-Snowdon Foundation is a left-leaning grantmaking foundation, which supports organizations and projects oriented towards immigration expansion, minority interests, voter mobilization, and combating poverty. Background The Hill-Snowdon Foundation was founded in New Jersey in 1959 by Arthur Bullock Hill, an executive and board member of Johnson and Johnson, primarily with
