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The Freedom Together Foundation, previously known as the JPB Foundation, is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. By 2019, it was listed as one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States.
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The JK Irwin Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation based in San Francisco focused primarily on criminal justice policy, including prison reform and drug abuse treatment reform. 33 John Irwin, a university professor and
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Horizons Foundation is a San Francisco-based grantmaking organization that supports predominately LGBT and left-of-center social causes. 64 Originally founded in 1980 as the philanthropic arm of the Golden Gate Business Association, the organization
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The California Wellness Foundation is a grantmaking foundation created in late 1990 and endowed in early 1992 because of the conversion of non-profit California health insurer Health Net into a for-profit health insurance corporation. Announcing the terms of the 1992 endowment, California Wellness stated that it had become the “largest
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The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (Astraea) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization that has funneled over $31 million to bolster Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI) political organizations.
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The Angelica Foundation is a left-of-center foundation located in Santa Fe, New Mexico that funds left-of-center projects around immigration, environmentalism, and other topics. The foundation was extremely critical of the policies of former President Donald Trump, stating that Trump launched a “war against immigrants.”
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Akonadi Foundation is a left-of-center racial-issues grantmaking group based in Oakland, California. The foundation was founded by husband and wife Wayne Jordan and Quinn Delaney, who are major donors to the Democratic Party with strong ties to former President Barack Obama (D). History In 2000, the Akonadi
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Post Carbon Institute (also known as Metafoundation) is a climate policy think tank based in Corvallis, Oregon. It aims to be an educational resource for climate research experts and organizations alike to help inform the transition into a post-conventional-fuel economy. It argues in favor of “relocalization” which seeks to “revolutionize
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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.187 In 2023 SFF
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The Abundance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Berkeley, California.207 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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The North Carolina-based Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR)227 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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with over $11 billion in assets. The Foundation conducts most of its grantmaking through donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts established with oversight from individual donors who can advise how their gifts are distributed for charitable purposes. SVCF has drawn criticism
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New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a left-of-center think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The think tank’s scholars and affiliated commentators include former and some
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The James Irvine Foundation is a California non-profit donor organization with a history of donations to left-of-center labor union activist organizations such as the National Employment Law Project, left-of-center immigration advocates such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and anti-energy organizations such as the
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of said groups lobby for climate-based policies including emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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The Bauman Family Foundation is a foundation that has donated millions of dollars to left-of-center causes over the past decade.377 The foundation
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James E. Casey (1888-1983), the founder of United Parcel Service, and his family created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 1948. When Casey died, the foundation received much of his estate, and the endowment doubled when, in 1999, UPS raised $5.47 billion from an initial public offering. The Annie E.
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The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) is one of the charitable entities associated with billionaire Berkshire Hathaway investor Warren Buffett, who funds the Foundation. Founded in 1964 as the Buffett Foundation, STBF was later renamed for Warren’s late first wife Susan, whose estate granted the Foundation over $2 billion.
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The Public Welfare Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded in 1947 that claims to focuses on issues of criminal justice, juvenile penal changes, and labor union-backed employment policy. Since its founding, the organization has given more than $500 million in grants to left-leaning organizations. History Charles Edward Marsh founded
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The NoVo Foundation is the private foundation controlled by Peter Buffett, son of investor and left-of-center philanthropist Warren Buffett, and Peter’s wife Jennifer. Warren provided the initial donation of 350,000 shares of Berkshire Hathaway valued at $1 billion
