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Non-profit
The Hutchins Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by private equity billionaire Glenn H. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie. The foundation has ties to far-left organizations such as the Democratic Party establishment-aligned think tank Center for American Progress and the Barack Obama Foundation. The
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Political Party/527
Need to Impeach is a left-of-center super PAC created in 2017 to support independent expenditure campaigns opposing President Donald Trump. Need to Impeach is closely associated with billionaire environmentalist and Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer, who is the super PAC’s founder and principal funder.
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Non-profit
Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) is an organization that advocates for liberal expansionist immigration reform in the United States. It is a project of the Center for Community Change, a left-leaning 501(c)(3) nonprofit. FIRM advances a left-of-center political agenda by organizing dozens of smaller advocacy groups. It claims to have
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Non-profit
American Oversight (AO) is an activist and litigation organization focusing on filing open records requests targeting Republican interests, especially the administration of President Donald Trump. The organization was launched in March 2017, following and in response to the election of President Trump’s inauguration and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Non-profit
We The Protesters (WTP) is a left-of-center policing policy organization associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. 1 WTP was founded in 2014 following the police-involved
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Non-profit
Upstream USA is a left-of-center group that promotes contraception in health clinics in order to reduce the national population, which it argues is the key to ending poverty. It was a project of the New Venture Fund, a center-left “dark money” nonprofit managed by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella
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For-profit
Higher Ground Productions is a production company that is partnered with Netflix and is owned by Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Non-profit
The Economic Security Project (ESP) is a left-of-center initiative that advocates for the federal government to distribute “unconditional cash for Americans” through a universal basic income program. 1 It is housed within the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3)
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Person
Mike Lux is a Democratic political strategist affiliated with Democracy Partners, and his own firm, Progressive Strategies LLC. His client list has included the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, and Democracy Alliance. He is a board member at the Arca Foundation and was
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Non-profit
The Harold Simmons Foundation is the private grantmaking foundation of Harold C. Simmons (1931-2013), an investor whose holding company, Contran Corporation, owns 93 percent of Valhi, Inc., a publicly traded company whose divisions manufacture chemicals (most notably titanium oxide) and components for computers as well as buying and selling real
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Non-profit
Michigan Citizen Action (MCA) was a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based, left-leaning advocacy nonprofit that supported higher taxes and increased government spending on public schools, roads, and mass transit. MCA also lobbied to end Michigan’s law prohibiting consumers from re-selling tickets to sports and entertainment events at higher prices than face value (“ticket
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For-profit
Vox Media is an American digital media company that operates news and opinion websites and new media channels. Originally founded by left-wing political activists including Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas and led by an executive team with deep connections to the Democratic Party, Vox Media has expanded from
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Non-profit
The Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG) is a state-based offshoot of the national U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG) that lobbies and influences public policy in support of left-of-center causes. The PIRG model was devised by left-wing activist and 2000 Green Party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader
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Non-profit
The Commonwealth Fund is a health care policy-focused private foundation. It funds research on and advocacy for health care systems, frequently taking a left-of-center perspective on state intervention in the medical system
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Non-profit
Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel
