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The John Templeton Foundation was created by investor Sir John Templeton. Since his death in 2005, it has been led after the founder’s death by his late son, John Templeton Jr., and by his grandchildren, Heather Templeton Dill and Jennifer Templeton Simpson. The foundation’s primary focus is exploring the scientific
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The Knight Foundation is a left-leaning private foundation that sets a primary emphasis on funding media-related projects. The foundation, which was seeded by the estate of economically conservative newspaper publisher John S. “Jack” Knight, began by endowing chairs in journalism at universities. In the past decade, the foundation has funded
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The Jaquelin Hume Foundation is a family foundation run by the descendants of food industry entrepreneur Jaquelin “Jack” Hume (1905-1991). With his brother William, Jack Hume created Basic Vegetable Products, which sold dried onions and garlic, and American Potato, which dried potatoes. Hume was an active donor to Republican causes
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The Dunn Foundation (formerly Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking) is a family foundation based in Delaware that makes grants to right-of-center organizations that advance libertarian principles of free enterprise, smaller government, deregulation, private property rights, and individual liberty.
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The Chase Foundation of Virginia is the philanthropy created by Derwood S. Chase, Jr., founder and chairman emeritus of Chase Investment Counsel, an investment advisory firm that also runs a mutual fund. The foundation primarily gives to center-right nonprofits and to charities in the Charlottesville, Virginia area. Derwood S. Chase,
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The Atlantic Philanthropies, primarily based in Bermuda, were a collection of principally overseas organizations founded by businessman Charles “Chuck” Feeney in 1982. 79 Due to technicalities of American foundation
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The Achelis and Bodman Foundation is a nonprofit grantmaking organization that supports arts and educational programs mostly in New York City, along with supporting charter schools and various center-right advocacy organizations. The foundation was formed by the merger of the Steven B. Achelis Foundation (founded in 1940) and the Bodman
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a membership society that hosts programs and publishes scientific studies in the United States. Established by a Congressional charter in 1863, NAS operates as an independent nonprofit organization that advises the federal government on scientific issues and conducts studies on its behalf.
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The J Street Education Fund is an advocacy group associated with the lobbying organization J Street focused on Jewish-American issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. The group has left-of-center stances on a variety of issues and is the sister organization to J Street and the J Street
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Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer is a progressive donor, venture capital investor, and political commentator. Hanauer is an activist for extreme increases in the minimum wage, a fervent financial supporter of gun control, and a multimillionaire jet-setter.
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For the 501(c)(3), see UnidosUS (nonprofit) UnidosUS Action Fund (UnidosUS Action Fund) is a left-of-center advocacy group that seeks to expand the influence and political power of Hispanic communities in the United States through direct lobbying, field advocacy, media messaging, polling, and coalition building.
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Also see Center for American Progress (Nonprofit) The Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), established in July 2003 by longtime Clinton family confidant John Podesta, liberal billionaire George Soros, and a handful of other former Washington, D.C. Democrats and Clinton administration officials, is a leading force
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The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of Americans who earn more than $1 million per year and advocate for left-wing economic policies. They were organized by longtime Democratic and left-wing strategist Erica Payne with help from trial lawyer and major Democratic donor Guy Saperstein in 2010, who recruited
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Funded by a variety of private foundations, the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) has positioned itself as a key source of scientific research and policy proposals regarding climate change, directed to government decision-makers around the world. WHRC has further extended its influence beyond governments to include civil society, by working
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Arabella Advisors (commonly called “Arabella”) is a philanthropic consulting company that guides the strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals. 355 Arabella provides these clients with a number of services that ease
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The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a left-of-center, environmentalist nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The organization has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy and biotechnology, especially the production of genetically engineered (GE) foods.
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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
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2030 Inc. is a left-of-center environmentalist group that focuses on the relationship between urban planning and carbon dioxide emissions. The group actively advocates for restrictive environmentalist legislation and government regulation at the municipal, state, federal, and supranational levels. Organizational Overview The three programs offered by 2030 Inc. include 2030 Palette,
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The North Carolina-based Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR)593 utilizes legacy monies from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco fortune to fund North Carolina-based liberal agendas and organizations. It is one of numerous foundations created in
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The Sunlight Foundation was a government transparency advocacy group pushing for largely center-left government transparency measures.607 While the Sunlight Foundation claimed to be nonpartisan, its original national director, Zephyr Teachout, became a left-wing