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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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Non-profit
The Skoll Global Threats Fund is a private grantmaking foundation and a controlled entity of the Skoll Foundation, both of which are funded by billionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Skoll.1 Skoll is
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Non-profit
NARAL Pro-Choice America (NARAL), formerly the National Abortion Rights Action League, is a social-liberal organization which engages in political action and advocacy efforts to expand access to abortion across the United States. NARAL operates primarily through grassroots organizing, leading nationwide campaigns to promote and normalize abortion. NARAL, alongside its political
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Non-profit
The Lear Family Foundation was founded by Lyn and Norman Lear in 1997. 1 Norman Lear is known for writing and producing many 1970’s sitcoms including “All in the Family,” “Sanford and Son,” and “The Jeffersons”;
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Person
Henry P. van Ameringen is a retired American businessman, real estate developer, philanthropist and advocate for gay rights and marijuana legalization. Van Ameringen worked for the International Flavor and Fragrance company, founded by his father, Arnold Louis van Ameringen. He is a board member of the family’s van Ameringen Foundation
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Person
Drummond McGavin Pike is an American businessman, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. He is notable for founding a number of organizations that promote and fund progressive causes, the most notable of which was the Tides Foundation in 1976, an organization he led as CEO for 35 years, retiring in
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Person
David desJardins is an American mathematician, software engineer, investor and philanthropist. He was the 20th employee of Google, joining in 1999. After leaving the company in 2005, he invested in a number of startup companies and philanthropic endeavors with his wife, Nancy Blachman. He is a top donor to
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Non-profit
The Barbra Streisand Foundation is the primary vehicle for the philanthropy and left-of-center activism of actress and singer Barbra Streisand. Mostly using relatively small donations, under $30,000, the foundation has distributed over $25 million to more than 800 organizations.
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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
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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.
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Non-profit
The American Independent Institute, formerly the Center for Independent Media, is a fund for left-wing journalists to conduct deep reporting projects on the “nexus of conservative power in Washington.”
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Non-profit
The Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation was established by Stephen Silberstein in Belvedere, California, in May 1998.1 Records indicate the
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Political Party/527
For the related nonprofit, see Priorities USA Action (nonprofit) Priorities USA Action is a major Super PAC associated with supporting Democratic Party candidates and opposing Republican candidates. The organization was created in April 2011
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Non-profit
The Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation is the private foundation of progressive technology investor and reported Democracy Alliance partner Nick Hanauer.1 Hanauer, dubbed “America’s worst
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Non-profit
Getty Oil heiress Anne Earhart created the Marisla Foundation (formerly known as the Homeland Foundation) in 1986.1 The foundation, based in Laguna Beach, California, aims to support human and health service organizations,
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Non-profit
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a legal advocacy group with previous connections with political strategist David Brock. The organization describes itself as a “nonpartisan” watchdog group directing litigation against government corruption in an effort to advance the public interest. The group is part of Brock’s
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Non-profit
Bohemian Foundation is a private foundation based in Fort Collins, Colorado, that conducts grantmaking in local communities in four main program categories: community, music, global, and civic. It was founded in 2001 by medical device heiress Pat Stryker, a major donor to left-of-center causes. Stryker helped form the
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Political Party/527
American Bridge 21st Century, also known by its official PAC name AB PAC 1 is a Democratic Party super PAC founded by David Brock on November 23, 2010.
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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
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Labor Union
The National Education Association (NEA) is America’s largest labor union representing nearly three million employees, principally teachers. With affiliates in every state across 14,000 communities 1, NEA represents teachers, education support professionals, retired teachers, education faculty and
