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Person
Robert Raben is a left-progressive lobbyist and political operative who has served Democratic politicians and left-of-center issues for decades. 1 He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and their causes ranging from
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Non-profit
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) is a left-of-center political advocacy organization, which mainly advocates and lobbies for increases to the Arizona minimum wage and legislation that restricts and regulates the flexibility of labor for Arizona employers. The group also campaigns for liberal expansionist immigration policy. LUCHA has also
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Non-profit
The Praxis Project is a left-of-center organization that provides seed money, strategic support, and fiscal sponsorship to community-based advocacy groups, especially those focused on health care policy and racial minority communities. It has been funded by several large left-of-center donors including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Tides
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Person
Kimberlé Crenshaw is a left-leaning law professor at UCLA and Columbia University known for her work in “civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.” 93 She is also
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Non-profit
Californians for Justice Education Fund, also known as Californians for Justice (CFJ), is a left-of-center advocacy group focusing on inter-ethnic educational disparities. It has received thousands of dollars in donations from various left-of-center and liberal groups, lobbies and advocates at the state level.
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Non-profit
The Solutions Journalism Network is a training and advocacy group that promotes a style of journalism that promotes policy approaches to social and economic problems rather than reporting facts. The organization receives substantial funding from some of the largest and most prominent left-of-center grantmaking foundations in the United States including
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Non-profit
The Biden Foundation was a nonprofit organization established by former Vice President Joe Biden and former Second Lady Jill Biden in 2017 to support the left-of-center policies that Vice President Biden had worked to implement during his time in the Senate and the Obama administration.
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Other Group
The Soros Network (also called the Open Society Network) is a system of private grantmaking foundations and nonprofits that comprise one of the largest funders of center-left and far-left activism and advocacy in the world.
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Non-profit
The Bezos Earth Fund is a left-of-center charitable project launched by billionaire Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in February 2020. Bezos endowed the Fund with $10 billion to be disbursed by 2030 to environmentalist projects aimed at combatting climate change.
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Person
Jing Zhao is a think tank manager who is active in shareholder advocacy, frequently submitting left-leaning shareholder resolutions to some of the largest companies in the world. Zhao frequently advocates for left-of-center corporate governance policies and new human rights policies, specifically for businesses that do business in the People’s Republic
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Person
Susan Desmond-Hellman is a medical researcher, academic, and left-leaning philanthropic executive best known as the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the former chancellor of the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). Before working on academia and for the Gates Foundation, she worked for various biotechnology
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Political Party/527
Left-wing activist and preacher Jesse Jackson ran two campaigns for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1984 and 1988. The 1988 race was the more successful of the two attempts, with Jackson briefly taking first place in the delegate race after a strong showing in
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For-profit
Mountain Philanthropies is a funding collective focused on a variety of election policy, left-or-center social policy, and environmentalist projects. Managed by the large left-leaning consulting company Arabella Advisors, it is organized as a limited liability company.
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Non-profit
The Russell Sage Foundation is a left-leaning social science research funder founded in 1907 with a $10 million grant from Margaret Olivia Sage, a progressive activist and the widow of railroad tycoon Russell Sage. Its first 57 years focused on a variety of industrial, labor, and social science research and
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Non-profit
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is a left-of-center United Kingdom-based non-profit foundation that focuses on providing financial support to climate-change initiatives, environmentalist organizations, and to groups tackling various issues surrounding children.
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Non-profit
The Animal Legal Defense Fund is a left-of-center litigation group associated with the animal rights and animal liberation movements. The group sues on behalf of animals with the aim of securing formalized civil rights for non-humans. The ALDF was founded in 1979.
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Non-profit
Population Matters (PM) is a London-based think tank seeking to reduce the number of live births globally in an effort to reduce human impact on the environment. Population Matters (formerly Optimum Population Trust) strongly leans upon left-progressive social ideology, positing that overpopulation is a result of sexism and that the
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Non-profit
The Limestone Foundation is a left-of-center family foundation that is one of two successor organizations of the left-of-center Stoneman Family Foundation formed by one of two daughters of Sidney and Miriam Stoneman and her children. 371 The foundation
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Person
Christopher Hohn is an English hedge-fund manager and billionaire environmentalist who had an estimated net worth of $9.2 billion as of 2025. 378 Hohn is known for personally contributing £50,000
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Non-profit
The Center for Climate and Security is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that promotes national security policy that incorporates a left-leaning position on global warming. A number of its senior officials have held posts with Democratic Presidential administrations. The group has received substantial funding from the left-of-center institutional grantmakers
