-
Non-profit
The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 1 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the
-
Labor Union
The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is a construction-industry labor union. The IUOE has about 400,000 members in 123 local unions in the United States and Canada and is the 10th largest union in the AFL-CIO.
-
Labor Union
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE; sometimes styled SEIU Local 1199 or just 1199) is a large local union of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representing employees of hospitals throughout the northeast United States. The union wields a great deal of political power in New York State and
-
Other Group
United for Action is a volunteer group of liberal activists that organize protesters against domestic energy production and in support of an extremist environmentalist agenda.
-
Person
Michael Vachon serves as a spokesman for billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros and as Chairman of the Soros Management Fund.1 He is active on the boards of left-of-center enterprises with
-
Non-profit
The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Foundation is the family foundation of Henry R. Kravis, who co-founded and led. KKR, a private equity firm. Henry Kravis is a trustee of Claremont McKenna College and has served as a trustee of Rockefeller University. Marie-Josee Kravis is the chair of the Museum
-
Person
Barbra Streisand is a singer, screen and stage actor, movie director, and philanthropist.1 She has been active in support of left-of-center politics and the Democratic Party throughout her career, and she created the Barbra Streisand
-
Labor Union
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is the sixth-largest national labor union in the United States, representing employees in the food production, retail, and chemical industries.
-
Non-profit
The Mangrove Foundation is a subsidiary of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focuses its giving on health, social, and politically left-of-center public policy causes in Australia, Bermuda, Ireland, South Africa, the United States, and Vietnam. A philanthropic
-
Non-profit
The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global
-
Person
Thomas Fahr “Tom” Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire turned climate-change activist, and major political donor to environmental causes and Democrats advocating an environmentalist agenda to fight global warming. Steyer made his fortune as the co-founder and senior managing partner of Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund worth $30 billion.
-
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
-
Non-profit
Media Matters for America (MMfA) was established in 2004 by conservative-turned-liberal activist David Brock. MMfA was created as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. MMfA positions itself as a fact-checker, focusing on conservative media bias and inaccuracies. In practice, the organization frequently criticizes opinions of conservative commentators. In November 2023, MMfA was
-
Person
George Soros is a Hungarian-born American investor, author, left-of-center political donor, and philanthropist. Outside of his political giving and advocacy, he is best known for a set of currency trades that earned him the moniker “the man who broke the Bank of England.”
