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The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ, sometimes styled AfGJ) is an organizing group that serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous left-wing initiatives, among them Refuse Fascism,
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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with over $11 billion in assets. The Foundation conducts most of its grantmaking through donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts established with oversight from individual donors who can advise how their gifts are distributed for charitable purposes. SVCF has drawn criticism
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The Dyson Foundation is the private foundation of the Dyson family which funds nonprofits, schools, and religious organizations operating within the New York area. The Foundation generally supports conventional charitable causes in the New York area, but has also made large contributions to left-leaning advocacy groups. Background Charles and Margaret
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The Alliance for Justice (AFJ) is a left-of-center legal policy coalition composed of over 135 organizations. 122 The group is best known for the Judicial Selection Project, which seeks to promote left-wing and Democratic-appointed
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The Wallace Global Fund is a major private foundation controlled by the family of former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace that funds left-of-center “activities and movements that are global or national in scope.” 151 Areas in
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The Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation is a left-leaning grantmaking foundation founded by Susie Tompkins Buell (nee Russell), a left-of-center mega-donor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from San Francisco who is a close confidant of and major donor to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Susie Tompkins Buell and her husband
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The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) is one of the charitable entities associated with billionaire Berkshire Hathaway investor Warren Buffett, who funds the Foundation. Founded in 1964 as the Buffett Foundation, STBF was later renamed for Warren’s late first wife Susan, whose estate granted the Foundation over $2 billion.
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The Sandler Foundation is a left-of-center philanthropy organization founded in 2001 by billionaire bankers Herbert and Marion Sandler. It has given approximately a billion dollars in grants to support organizations like the media group ProPublica and the think tank Center for American Progress.
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The J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation is a private foundation managed by J.B. (Jay Robert) Pritzker, Governor of Illinois since 2019, and his wife, M.K. (Mary Katherine) Pritzker. The foundation contributes to educational institutions (especially ones attended by J.B. Pritzker), local organizations near properties owned by the couple,
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Population Connection is a left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group that supports global population control policies. The organization was founded in 1968 as Zero Population Growth by environmentalist and population control activist Paul Ehrlich directly following the publication of his controversial 1968 book, The Population Bomb. The organization affirms that population
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The NoVo Foundation is the private foundation controlled by Peter Buffett, son of investor and left-of-center philanthropist Warren Buffett, and Peter’s wife Jennifer. Warren provided the initial donation of 350,000 shares of Berkshire Hathaway valued at $1 billion
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NARAL Pro-Choice America (NARAL), formerly the National Abortion Rights Action League, is a social-liberal organization which engages in political action and advocacy efforts to expand access to abortion across the United States. NARAL operates primarily through grassroots organizing, leading nationwide campaigns to promote and normalize abortion. NARAL, alongside its political
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Leland Fikes Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation based In Dallas, Texas that funds a variety of left-of-center advocacy groups in Texas and nationally. The foundation was founded in 1954 by Leland Fikes, a wealthy Texas oilman who died in 1966, and has since been operated by his descendants. The
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Leland Fikes was a prominent Texas oil and gas executive who founded the Leland Fikes Foundation. Fikes died in 1966, and the Leland Fikes Foundation has since been operated by members of the Fikes family since. It has consistently contributed to left-of-center causes and organizations as well as medical
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The Lear Family Foundation was founded by Lyn and Norman Lear in 1997. 470 Norman Lear is known for writing and producing many 1970’s sitcoms including “All in the Family,” “Sanford and Son,” and “The Jeffersons”;
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the nation’s largest LGBT-interest activist organization and a prominent force in left-of-center politics. Together with the affiliated Human Rights Campaign Foundation charitable arm and super PAC, HRC has built relationships with powerful mostly Democratic Party politicians and major corporations, and has taken a
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The H. van Ameringen Foundation is a private foundation established by noted social-liberal philanthropist Henry van Ameringen in 1967; it is one of the top supporters of LGBT-interest advocacy in the US. The Foundation also makes grants to organizations focused on HIV/AIDS, the legalization of marijuana, and other progressive
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Enroll America is a 501(c)(3) founded in 2011—the year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was signed into law—for the express purpose of enrolling people in Obamacare insurance plans and ensuring those people renewed their enrollments.
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Educational Foundation of America (EFA) is a major left-of-center grant maker that funds environmentalist, educational, and voter-mobilization initiatives. EFA purports to be a family foundation that aims to create a society with “an inclusive democracy,” in which each person has “unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom” and lives on a
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Drummond McGavin Pike is an American businessman, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. He is notable for founding a number of organizations that promote and fund progressive causes, the most notable of which was the Tides Foundation in 1976, an organization he led as CEO for 35 years, retiring in
