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The J Street Education Fund is an advocacy group associated with the lobbying organization J Street focused on Jewish-American issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. The group has left-of-center stances on a variety of issues and is the sister organization to J Street and the J Street
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New Media Ventures is a left-of-center organization that invests in newly established nonprofits that seek to use advocacy and social media to advance left-wing policies. Democracy Alliance Democracy Alliance is a collective of wealthy left-progressive donors that meet at semi-annual conferences for the purpose of providing a list of
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New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a left-of-center think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The think tank’s scholars and affiliated commentators include former and some
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The Wallace Global Fund is a major private foundation controlled by the family of former U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace that funds left-of-center “activities and movements that are global or national in scope.” 1 Areas in
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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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The Proteus Fund is a center-left “pass-through” funder and donor-advised fund provider. Since the Fund’s creation in 1995, Proteus has routed hundreds of millions of dollars from major grantmaking foundations and anonymous donors on the Left to activist groups targeting issues including legalizing same-sex marriage, reducing religious freedom to dissent
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The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a nonprofit environmental group known for its advocacy for public policies concerning global warming and a left-wing political agenda. Since the EDF was founded in 1966, it has grown into a behemoth $150 million per year environmental action organization with twelve offices across the
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The Rockefeller Family Fund is the nonprofit organization supporting the philanthropy of the great-grandchildren of John D. Rockefeller and the grandchildren of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The “cousins,” as Rockefeller Jr.’s grandchildren came to be known, were major supporters of left-wing counterculture causes as early as the 1960s.
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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund was created in 1940 as the charity for the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: John D., III; future U.S. Vice President Nelson; Laurance; Winthrop; and David Rockefeller. Two of these five men, Laurance and David, also established their own foundations, though David announced that
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Everytown for Gun Safety (better known by its short name, Everytown) is a New York-based lobbying group that advocates for gun control measures while opposing laws expanding firearms carry privileges. Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and founder and owner of global financial services and media company
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Non-profit
The Sixteen Thirty Fund (sometimes styled “1630 Fund”) is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy organization founded in 2008. 1 Sixteen Thirty Fund often operates alongside its charitable “sister” nonprofit New Venture Fund, which
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Mothering Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization based out of Detroit, Michigan. It primarily focuses on issues related to mothers, such as childcare, abortion, paid family/maternal leave, and healthcare issues. 1 It is a member of
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Other Group
Barnacle Strategies is a left-of-center independent consulting group that advises environmentalist groups in Canada and the United States. Barnacle Strategies was founded and is managed by Dave Secord, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, who was previously the president of strategic grantmaking for the
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The Loud Hound Foundation is a San Francisco-based left-of-center grantmaking foundation. 1 William Moritz is the president of the Loud Hound Foundation. His father, venture capital billionaire and Sequoia Capital director
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Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) is a left-of-center postsecondary education policy advocacy organization that targets policymakers, leaders, and influential thinkers. 1
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The Mize Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation based in Seattle, Washington that funds various environmentalist causes and organizations, with a focus on supporting organizations in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa. The foundation is led by Anne Mize, a writer and nonprofit consultant, and members of her family.
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The Tortuga Foundation is the grantmaking foundation of the Livingston family. Though Tortuga primarily contributes to conservation groups, it gives grants to organizations that advocate for left-of-center policies, including the Environmental Integrity Project, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, and Planned Parenthood.
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Wend II Inc. is a left-of-center grantmaking organization run by James M. Walton, the cousin of Ben Walton, the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and Sam Walton. 1
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Arie and Ida Crown Memorial is one of the private family foundations of the billionaire Crown family, who made their money in steel manufacturing and defense contracting.
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All by April is a coalition of left-of-center foundations, nonprofit grantmakers, and individual donors that have committed to making “election-related gifts” early in the 2024 election cycle, in order to fund efforts to “help recruit poll workers, organize nonpartisan voter registration drives, support local election officials, and work to ensure
