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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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The Center for Immigration Studies is a non-profit organization that seeks to reduce the level of immigration into the United States. It provides research to policymakers, the media, and educational institutions. The organization does not give details on its funding, however, it is known that it has been funded by
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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.”
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Benjamin Rahn is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and former president of ActBlue, a pass-through outlet for Democratic politicians and organizations which, as of March 2021, has facilitated $8.4 billion in donations to left-of-center candidates and causes since its creation.
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Soros Fund Charitable Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded and funded by billionaire George Soros. The foundation is associated with Soros Fund Management, a private investment management firm that Soros founded in 1969.
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The Colcom Foundation is a grantmaking organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides funding to advocacy groups that deal with causes related to immigration restriction, family policy, and environmental conservation. The foundation frames these issues as part of a larger global crisis which it describes as a “sixth mass extinction”
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STG Results (also called Smoot Tewes Consulting) is a Democratic Party-aligned public affairs and political strategy firm. It was founded in 2013 as Smoot Tewes Group by two former Obama for America senior staffers, Julianna Smoot and Paul Tewes.
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Teresa Anne Shook is a retired lawyer, from Maui, Hawaii1 who has received credit for first proposing the “Women’s March
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Freedom for Immigrants is a left-of-center immigration advocacy organization. The organization and its founders have close ties to numerous left-wing funding entities and advocacy networks for illegal immigrants. While the majority of the organization’s advocacy is focused on legal and policy work pushing an expansionist immigration agenda, it has also
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The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (often shortened to By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN) is a radical left-wing coalition linked with the Trotskyist Revolutionary Workers League created in 1995 in Berkeley, California.
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The Google Foundation (also known by its internet address, Google.org) is the corporate charitable arm of Alphabet, Inc., and its subsidiary, Google. It is a major funder of left-wing advocacy, having contributed at least $70 million in the decade between 2007-2016 to organizations such as the Tides Foundation, a provider of
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The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is a dues- and membership-supported organization for lawyers who practice immigration law. Its programs are aimed at improving the practice of immigration law, promoting liberalized immigration, and advancing the policy argument that immigrants improve the U.S. economy.
