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Non-profit
Common Justice is a Brooklyn-based criminal justice advocacy organization that promotes efforts to defund the police and end the incarceration of criminals, including violent felons. 1 The
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Non-profit
Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) is a left-of-center nonprofit that advocates for student voting through lawsuits, supporting legislation, and on-campus get-out-the-vote campaigns. AGF is named for Andrew Goodman, a college student who joined Freedom Summer, a 1964 civil rights voter registration drive in Mississippi who was murdered along with two other
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Government Agency
Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Non-profit
Impact Justice is a left-of-center advocacy group that claims that the U.S. criminal justice system needs to be overhauled and works to find alternatives to incarceration. The leaders of Impact Justice have stated that prison and jail are a “direct legacy of slavery,” and consider Jim Crow laws and mass
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Person
Anand Giridharadas is an American writer best known for his critical views on American and global elites, whom he believes use philanthropy and lackluster reform efforts to avoid or obscure the perpetration of structural economic inequality. Career After graduating from the University of Michigan in 20013 with a degree in
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Person
Michael Quattrone is a member of the wealthy Rockefeller family who is a poet, singer-songwriter, and nonprofit consultant, board member, and founder. He has personally funded Democratic candidates and used his position in philanthropy to fund left-of-center organizations. He is a grandson to David Rockefeller and recently become more involved
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Person
Laurie Tisch is the only daughter of Preston Robert Tisch, the co-founder of Loews Corporation. She is the founder of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, a grantmaking organization that funds social and civic programs in New York City. About Tisch studied education at the University of Michigan. After graduation,
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Non-profit
The Pillars Fund is a left-of-center Muslim grantmaking organization that provides grants to political organizations that oppose voter integrity laws, establish activist incubators, advocate for race-focused social and economic policies, and seek to extend voting rights to ex-felons, in addition to general funding for the arts and sciences.
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Other Group
The New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development was founded in 1890 as the first school of “pedagogy,” or educational theory, in the United States. It has expanded to include programs in the arts, health, and media studies, organized around a central theme of “learning how people
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Non-profit
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is an association of private K-12 schools and accreditation organizations servicing private K-12 schools. As of February 2022, NAIS has 1,629 members throughout the United States and abroad that serve almost 700,000 students and employ more than 60,000 teachers.
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Non-profit
Parents Defending Education (PDE) is a right-leaning organization that opposes the teaching of critical race theory and related left-progressive ideology in K-12 public schools. 1 Founded in 2021, the group has filed racism complaints with
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Non-profit
The States United Democracy Center is a left-leaning election law organization that was founded in 2020 as the Voter Protection Program (not to be confused the Voter Protection Project, another left-leaning election advocacy organization). The organization was founded as one of many organizing coalitions and left-leaning strategy groups
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Non-profit
The Stainman Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports taxpayer-funded abortion, left-leaning social activism, left-leaning election law organizations, and environmentalist organizations. 1 It was established in by
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Person
Lois Stainman is a left-of-center philanthropist. She is the wife of Arthur Stainman, a managing director at the asset management firm First Manhattan Company. They have contributed large amounts of money to numerous left-of-center advocacy organizations as well as Democratic political candidates and committees. She is the vice president of
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Political Party/527
Justice and Public Safety PAC is a left-of-center PAC that focuses on supporting the campaigns of left-of-center prosecutors.
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Non-profit
Gays Against Guns is a left-of-center, anti-gun activist group that organizes LGBT individuals and allies to protest in support of gun control measures. The organization hosts rallies in opposition to pro-gun organizations, public officials, and firearm manufacturers. Gays Against Guns also pressures businesses and politicians to drop their support for
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Non-profit
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a single-issue right-of-center advocacy organization that promotes responsible firearms ownership and use. It is involved in firearms-related education, training, and political activism, supporting policies that it sees as furthering the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the
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Political Party/527
The Lincoln Project is a Super PAC opposed to the reelection of President Donald Trump and Republican Party candidates that the group claims are his allies. From January through July 2020, the Lincoln project released 66 video advertisements, with 17 released in July alone.
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Person
See also: the Weather Underground and Thousand Currents. Susan Rosenberg is a convicted domestic terrorist and radical left activist whose youth was spent protesting the Vietnam War and racism in America. A member of the Weather Underground and other radical organizations which used violence as a tool for political
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Person
Eileen Rockefeller Growald is the great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the founder of Standard Oil Company. She co-founded the Growald Family Fund and has been involved with a number of other left-of-center nonprofit organizations. Family Growald’s great-grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was the founder of Standard Oil Company and became
