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The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is a right-of-center Christian litigation and advocacy organization. ADF represents clients on issues like protections for religious exercise, Christian understandings of marriage and sexuality, freedom of expression, and Title IX. The Alliance Defending Freedom claims over 400 court victories for freedom of speech of college
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Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a left-of-center entity that advocates for issues relating to public schools. The organization is a fiscally-sponsored project of New Venture Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the left-of-center consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
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Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) is a teachers’ union-aligned campaign started by the controversial left-wing extremism watchdog Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), its affiliated SPLC Action Fund, the teachers’ union-funded litigation group Education Law Center, and the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson.
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Christopher Reynolds Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that has focused for many years on supporting normalizing U.S. relations with Communist-ruled Vietnam and Cuba. According to its website, the Foundation is going through a “period of transition in its grantmaking profile” following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United
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Audrey Cappell is the founder of Foundation for a Just Society (FJS), a left-of-center organization which makes grants to smaller LGBT advocacy organizations across the globe. Cappell is the daughter of hedge fund manager and left-of-center mega-donor James Simmons. Much of the funding for FJS comes from the
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The Fund for Nonviolence is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation based in California. Primarily a grantmaking organization, the Fund provides financial support to left-of-center organizations that promote decreasing prison populations, reducing the size of the United States military, and abolishing the death penalty.
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The Marcy and Leona Chanin Foundation is a private foundation based in the state of Florida. Marcy Chanin, who is now deceased, was the president of Chanin Management, Inc., based out of New York, New York. Chanin Management specialized in the building of the art-deco stylized structures like the Chanin
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YouthBuild USA conducts studies and reporting systems to track hate crimes and what they term “hate incidents.” Youth Build is related to AmeriCorps and awards staff with AmeriCorps education awards.
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The Kohlberg Foundation is a private family foundation founded by private equity billionaire Jerome Kohlberg and his wife Nancy in 1989, based in Mt. Kisco, New York. The foundation provides grants to numerous left-of-center organizations, focused on legal policy related to health programs, the environment, and education.
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The Johnson Family Foundation is a New York City-based left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It is also known as the Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson foundation. Until 2000, the foundation’s giving was oriented more towards education and religious philanthropic causes. But since then, the foundation has become a major contributor
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The Falconwood Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation led and funded primarily by investor Henry G. Jarecki. 1 The Foundation provides grants to numerous left-of-center organizations and causes ranging
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The Funding Exchange was a left-of-center grant making membership organization that funded community activist-led organizations. The national organization also administered donor-advised funds and had its own grant making program, which eventually led to concerns about the national organization competing with its own local member foundations and contributed to the decision
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Alex Kotch is a left-wing investigative journalist that writes articles supporting environmentalism, highlighting money in politics, and attacking right-of-center groups. Kotch has worked at the left-of-center Institute for Southern Studies and The Young Turks Network.
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WESPAC (Westchester People’s Action Coalition) Foundation is a left-of-center nonprofit that supports advocacy movements for social reformation. Founded in 1974, WESPAC advocates for progressive social change in Westchester County, New York, and beyond. 1 It is
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Sludge is an online investigative journalism outlet that attempts to expose special interest spending in politics, particularly targeting entities that oppose left-of-center environmentalist, defense, and social policies. Sludge launched in 2018 using the controversial and struggling blockchain-based journalism platform Civil.
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Person
Morris Dees is the co-founder and former chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Dees was involved with the SPLC for 48 years and grew the organization into one of the largest civil rights organizations in the United States. The SPLC bankrupted numerous prominent extremist organizations
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Anna Fink is the executive director of the Amalgamated Foundation, the charitable arm of Amalgamated Bank. Amalgamated Bank is majority-owned and controlled by Workers United, a division of the SEIU labor union. Fink previously served as a senior advisor on philanthropic issues to Richard Trumka,
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The McIntosh Foundation is a private foundation associated with the family of Salomon Brothers investment banker William McIntosh that funds environmentalist projects. 1 Michael McIntosh served as president of the foundation from 1971
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Al Otro Lado (“To the Other Side”) is a center-left immigration advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, California. The group provides low cost or pro bono legal representation and healthcare services to individuals living illegally in the United States or seeking entry into the United States, primarily in Tijuana, Mexico. The
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The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a political and religious Islamic movement currently run by Louis Farrakhan. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the NOI “has maintained a consistent of record of anti-Semitism and racism since its founding in the 1930s.”
