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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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The Gamaliel Foundation was originally founded in 1968 by left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, and re-oriented into a community organizing operation during the 1980s under the guidance of executive director Greg Galluzzo.
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Educational Foundation of America (EFA) is a major left-of-center grant maker that funds environmentalist, educational, and voter-mobilization initiatives. EFA purports to be a family foundation that aims to create a society with “an inclusive democracy,” in which each person has “unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom” and lives on a
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a foundation created by David Packard, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard, in 1964. It supports environmental causes, population control programs, and three programs created by David Packard: the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering. Founder
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Not to be confused with the Arcus Foundation. The Nancy Susan Reynolds Foundation, now called Arca Foundation, uses funds from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco fortune to finance liberal agendas and organizations. It is one of numerous foundations created in whole or part with Reynolds trust funds, including the Mary
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The Wyss Foundation is a private foundation established in 1998 by Swiss billionaire and former Synthes CEO Hansjorg Wyss, an environmentalist activist and former CEO of the controversial medical device manufacturer Synthes.
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation) is a private foundation established in 1966 by Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett, his wife Flora, and his son Walter.
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The Wilburforce Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation founded and funded by Rose Letwin, the ex-wife of early Microsoft employee Gordon Letwin.
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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the seventh largest private foundation in the United States, and the largest nonprofit in Michigan.
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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
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The Sustainable Markets Foundation (SMF) is an environmental advocacy group that supports legislation to ban the production of natural gas. 315 SMF is organized as a 501(c)(3) public charity, not a foundation. The organization serves
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The Sea Change Foundation is a major left-of-center foundation whose grantmaking focuses on supporting environmentalist think tanks and advocacy groups, most notably the Energy Foundation, an environmentalist pass-through funder, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an advocacy nonprofit. Sea Change was founded in 2006 by Nathaniel
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (also known by its abbreviation, RWJF) was named after its founder, Robert Wood “General” Johnson II, son of the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson.
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The Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation is the private foundation of progressive technology investor and reported Democracy Alliance partner Nick Hanauer.387 Hanauer, dubbed “America’s worst
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The Gill Foundation was established in 1994 by Tim Gill. The foundation, based in Denver, Colorado, was created as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt private foundation to support public policy efforts that promote equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and economic opportunity in Colorado.
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The Energy Foundation, also known as the United States Energy Foundation, is a left-of-center “pass through” charitable foundation founded by and supported by a network of left-wing organizations. The Foundation began in January 1991 as a $20 million collaborative between the Pew Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller family foundations, and
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For more information, see Tides Nexus The Tides Center is a left-of-center nonprofit created to manage the fiscal sponsorship services of its “sister” organization, the Tides Foundation. Both groups are part of the Tides Nexus of pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits based in San Francisco, California.
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JPKB Consulting is a political consulting firm operated by Julia Barnes, a former Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign staffer who also works as the CEO of the Movement Cooperative, a left-of-center data firm that is a project of the Tides Foundation.
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Forward Global is a network of philanthropists and individuals interested in starting a philanthropic program who receive continuous learning and networking opportunities, and support in developing a strategic roadmap for their philanthropy. It was initially funded by the Rockefeller Foundation as The Philanthropy Workshop. Its focus is “activating resources
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The Hope Border Institute (HOPE) is a left-of-center immigration advocacy group based in El Paso, Texas, that opposes the detention of illegal immigrants and immigration policies it considers to be “restrictionist.” 550 HOPE’s leadership
