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The Mangrove Foundation was a subsidiary of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focused its advocacy on health, social, and politically left-of-center public policy causes in Australia, Bermuda, Ireland, South Africa, the United States, and Vietnam.
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The Sustainable Markets Foundation (SMF) is an environmental advocacy group that supports legislation to ban the production of natural gas. 9 SMF is organized as a 501(c)(3) public charity, not a foundation. The organization serves
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The Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation was established by Stephen Silberstein in Belvedere, California, in May 1998.25 Records indicate the
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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.58 The foundation, based in Princeton,
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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.95 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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The Western Colorado Alliance for Community Action (WCA) is an environmentalist activist group promoting left-of-center social and governmental policies in the Western Slope areas of Colorado. 225 It focuses largely on environmental and
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Arrow Impact is a left-of-center private foundation that is funded by investment manager Mark Wolfson and his wife Sheila that is led by Charlie Wolfson. 237 It makes grants to organizations seeking
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Oasis Legal Services is a left-of-center legal activist organization that provides legal assistance with asylum, residency, naturalization, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) cases, and family petitions for LGBT immigrants. 255 The group maintains offices
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The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is an environmental and social advocacy nonprofit. The group claims that its mission is to advocate for a transition to weather-dependent energy and to advocate for women to be placed in energy policy leadership roles.
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The Kairos Fellowship is a left-of-center activist group that advocates using technology initiatives to promote critical race theory-related views and policies. The Kairos Fellowship also provides training programs and job placement opportunities for participants. The group was formally organized in 2021, though its initial activism began in 2016 shortly after
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The United States Elections Project is a political research group that gathers information on demographic trends, election laws, and other aspects of the U.S. electoral system with the intent of showing the American public how the national electoral system may be “improved” based on left-of-center policies. The project is a
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The Just Health Fund is a Tides Foundation initiative established in 2024 that awards grants to organizations that focus on creating health equity, especially for racial-minority and LGBT communities. Its initial grants targeted small local nonprofits that support abortion rights. As of 2025, the fund planned to expand to
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The Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN) is a regional advocacy group that promotes left-of-center energy and climate-related policy within the Southeastern region of the United States. SCEN has coordinated and worked with member organizations and other working groups to provide technical assistance and grantmaking guidance, with a focus on
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Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights is a ballot measure coalition formed in 2022 to support “Issue 1,” or “the Right to Make Reproductive Decisions Including Abortion Initiative (2023),” which proposed to make abortion a right under the Ohio state constitution. The organization was initially founded as Ohioans for Reproductive
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Jane Bagley Lehman was a businesswoman and philanthropist. She was a granddaughter of R. J. Reynolds, the founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and the daughter of Nancy Susan Reynolds, the founder of the Arca Foundation, formerly known as the Nancy Susan Reynolds Foundation.
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The Healthy Democracy Fund, founded by eBay creator Pierre Omidyar, is a grantmaking foundation focused on supporting left-of-center groups and causes. 367 The Fund has supported organizations and projects focused on issue areas
