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Judith Avery is the daughter of R. Stanton Avery, the founder of Avery Dennison Corporation and the inventor of self-sticking labels. 1
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Jonathan Soros is a prominent liberal donor. The son of liberal finance billionaire and political donor George Soros, Jonathan spent many years managing his father’s varied financial interests,19 and in
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Jared Polis is a liberal politician, internet businessman, and political donor. From 2009 to 2018, he served as the Democratic U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 2nd district, which is dominated by the university town of Boulder. In the 2018 midterm election, Polis was elected governor of Colorado. Polis earned a fortune
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Anna Burger spent a nearly 40-year career working for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).100 Labeled as the “Queen of Labor,”
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The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (often shortened to U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce, or U.S. Chamber) is the world’s largest business federation. The Chamber is the largest lobbying group in the country and generally supports right-of-center policies, though during the Trump and
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Vanguard Charitable is the fourth-largest manager of donor-advised funds (DAFs) and the 17th largest grantmaking organization in the United States as of 2017. 182 Founded by the commercial investment firm Vanguard in
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The San Francisco Foundation (SFF) is one of the nation’s largest community foundations. It is focused on “racial equity and economic inclusion” in the San Francisco Bay area.202 In 2023 SFF
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The Hirsch Family Foundation (HFF) is a private family foundation based in Dallas Texas. HFF funds a wide variety of charitable initiatives including scholarships, medical research, the arts, Jewish community interests, and foreign policy research. Between 2010 and 2017, HFF donated more than $5.2 million to the Center for European
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The Carson Family Charitable Trust is a private grantmaking foundation started by private equity advisor Russell L. Carson, a founding partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe. 230 The 501(c)(3)
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The Annenberg Foundation is a private foundation headquartered in Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California, which focuses grants in the greater Los Angeles area as well as nationally. The foundation was founded by billionaire publisher and Nixon administration U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg, who was among the most prominent
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For the related superPAC, see Priorities USA (PAC) (Political Party/527) Priorities USA is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization affiliated with the liberal super PAC Priorities USA. Senior Obama administration staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney created the organization in 2011 to advocate for liberal issues in conjunction with its
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Population Connection Action Fund is a left-leaning lobbying organization that supports global population control policies. The organization is the lobbying arm of Population Connection, which was founded in 1968 as Zero Population Growth by environmentalist and population control activist Paul Ehrlich directly following the publication of his controversial
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NEO Philanthropy Action Fund (formerly Public Interest Projects Action Fund) is the lobbying and election-related advocacy arm of left-of-center funding pass-through NEO Philanthropy (formerly Public Interest Projects). It provides financial support to left-of-center lobbying and election-related advocacy groups including Asian Americans Advancing Justice, NextGen Climate Action, and
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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the public charity arm of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT activism organization. Together with its affiliated HRC Political Action Committee PAC, and Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes super PAC, the HRC organizations are nicknamed “Gay, Inc.” for their financial
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Blueprint North Carolina (Blueprint NC) is a left-leaning coalition of organizations that promotes Democratic candidates and left-of-center policies in North Carolina. Blueprint NC became well known when a local North Carolina media outlet leaked a Blueprint NC memo which called for an intense public pressure campaign against Republican political leaders
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The Abundance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Berkeley, California.381 Abundance Foundation makes grants to and partners with organizations that focus on health outcomes, the arts, public education, and the environment.
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George B. Kaiser, billionaire oilman and philanthropist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the owner, president, and CEO of the GBK Corporation, a holding company in the oil and natural gas industry. He is also the chairman and majority owner of BOK Financial Corporation, which owns Bank of Oklahoma.
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Organizing for Action (OFA) was an advocacy group that was the lineal descendant of the campaign organizations supporting the election of former President Barack Obama, Obama for America and Organizing for America. OFA was a 501(c)(4) devoted to preserving and building on the Obama agenda.
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America Votes is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy coalition that supports left-of-center issue advocacy and expanding voting access.463 America Votes bills itself as the “Coordination Hub of
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The Gates Foundation, previously known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was formed in 2000 by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his then-wife, Melinda French Gates. Its total assets of nearly$55 billion (as of year-end 2021) make the Gates Foundation the largest private
