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The McIntosh Foundation is a private foundation associated with the family of Salomon Brothers investment banker William McIntosh that funds environmentalist projects. 1 Michael McIntosh served as president of the foundation from 1971
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The Alexander Soros Foundation is a private foundation established by Alexander Soros, son of billionaire investor and liberal advocacy philanthropist George Soros. Its stated mission is to promote social justice and human rights, though its grants also focus on environmentalism, education, cultural causes, and more. Soros, who calls
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Soros Fund Charitable Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded and funded by billionaire George Soros. The foundation is associated with Soros Fund Management, a private investment management firm that Soros founded in 1969.
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The Colcom Foundation is a grantmaking organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides funding to advocacy groups that deal with causes related to immigration restriction, family policy, and environmental conservation. The foundation frames these issues as part of a larger global crisis which it describes as a “sixth mass extinction”
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The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a California-based organization that provides medical services to people with HIV/AIDS. The organization has also funded, sponsored, and supported left-wing ballot initiatives on drug prices, housing, and other issues in California and across the country. The organization is led by one of its co-founders,
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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 Embrey Family Foundation is a Dallas, Texas-based private grantmaking foundation which finances many left-of-center causes and organizations. The foundation also finances gender studies college courses and other scholarships for women. The foundation makes most of its grants to Texas-based causes and groups. It has made grants in the Roaring
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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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For more information on this organization, see People’s Action Institute. The Alliance for a Just Society (AJS), formerly the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations, is a policy advocacy research network and nationwide organizing coalition. The network consists of 15 social and economic equality organizations. As of 2016, the group
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With over a billion dollars in assets, the Schusterman Foundation is a grantmaking organization that funds left-of-center causes including LGBT interests and educational curriculum development.
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The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation was created by Hilton Hotels founder Conrad N. Hilton and greatly expanded by Hilton’s son, Barron Hilton. The foundation historically has supported Catholic religious sisters and programs that aid the poor in developing countries, though it has made an increasing emphasis on public policy, particularly
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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 Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a self-claimed nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded with the intention of tracking money in politics. 1 The CRP was founded in 1983 by former U.S. Senators Frank Church
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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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Nanci’s Animal Rights Foundation is a private foundation established in 2003 by Nanci Alexander, an animal liberation funder and the ex-wife of former Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander. 1 The
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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. 1 It funds a number of left-progressive advocacy organizations and sponsors a campaign targeting social-conservative and
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The Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation (SSDGFF) is a California-based, private, 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit founded and primarily funded by billionaire Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. The SSDGFF operates programs intended to assist women in workplace environments, help people facing personal difficulties, and provide college scholarships to
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The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (TGF) provides funding for environmental organizations. TGF is funded by Jeremy Grantham his wife Hannelore and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Jeremy Grantham is a British investment manager known for funding a number of environmentalist organizations.
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For more information, see Tides Nexus The Makeway Foundation, previously titled the Tides Canada Foundation, is a Vancouver, Canada-based nonprofit associated with the Tides Nexus, a collection of center-left pass-through grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits based in San Francisco, California. Despite its name, Makeway Foundation is an IRS-designated
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The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice, education issues, public pensions, dietary policy, and scientific research reform. The foundation
