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Non-profit
The Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation is a San Francisco-based private grantmaking foundation that donates to a variety of left-leaning nonprofits and activist organizations. The organization funds many prominent national and California-centric left-leaning organizations including the National Immigration Law Center, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the
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Non-profit
Unmasking Fidelity is a far-left advocacy campaign that opposes privacy and anonymity for donors to right-leaning nonprofits, a free speech provision protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Unmasking Fidelity is a coalition of multiple center- and far-left activist nonprofits, including
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration judicial nominations to federal courts. Supreme Court of the United States Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. She had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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Person
Aryeh Neier is a left-of-center political activist, a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society and Human Rights Watch, and the former president of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). Early Life and Education Aryeh Neier was born in Berlin in 1937. His parents, both Jews,
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Person
Alvin Starks is the strategic initiatives director for the NAACP and the director of the Open Society-U.S. Equality team at the Open Society Institute (OSI) of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF). In 2021, he coauthored an op-ed with Democracy Alliance head Pamela Shifman
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Non-profit
The National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is a left-of-center activist organization which supports legal campaigns against law enforcement under the guise of opposing police misconduct. Founded in 1999, the NPAP does not provide legal representation through its own operations but refers those affected by alleged law enforcement misconduct to approved
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Non-profit
Founded in 2018, Secure Democracy, now known as Secure Democracy USA, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that bills itself as a nonpartisan organization, but has deep ties to left-leaning activists, PACs, and law firms. The organization works exclusively on election policy advocacy, and supports expanding early voting, further use of mail-in
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For-profit
Lyft is an American ridesharing company. With a market capitalization of $18 billion, Lyft is the second-largest ridesharing company in the world behind Uber.
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the Executive Office of the President. Nominations and Appointments Jen O’Malley Dillon is White House Deputy Chief of Staff. She was Campaign Manger for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, and prior to that for Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign. She was a
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Government Agency
This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at the U.S. Department of Justice. Nominations and Appointments Kristen Clarke is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Clarke was most recently the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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For-profit
Uber Technologies is an American technology company best known for its ridesharing and restaurant delivery services. Founded in 2009, Uber became one of the most successful startups in history and a leading company in Silicon Valley. As of January 2021, Uber was valued at over $80 billion.
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Non-profit
The Alliance for a Better Utah (ABU) is an activist organization promoting a wide range of left-progressive causes in the state of Utah. The alliance advocates for eliminating restrictions on abortion, expanding taxpayer-funded healthcare and education programs, adopting environmentalist policies, and implementing other left-of-center policies. The ABU claims that it
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Non-profit
ImpactAssets Inc. is a donor-advised fund focused on donating to nonprofits, for-profit companies, and other philanthropic funds to create positive philanthropic impacts. In 2010, ImpactAssets spun off from Calvert Impact Capital, another non-profit investment firm, under the leadership of Timothy Freundlich, Wayne Silby, and Ron Cordes. The founders worked with
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Non-profit
California Voter Foundation (CVF) is an election policy and voter mobilization group. While CVF claims to be non-partisan for tax reasons, its leadership has associations with the Democratic Party, and it has taken funding from left-of-center foundations and organizations.
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Non-profit
Michigan Voices is a left-leaning voter mobilization group that coordinates the efforts of other left-leaning activist groups in Michigan. The group is part of the nationwide coalition State Voices, which organizes state-based political advocacy groups.
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Non-profit
The Melville Charitable Trust is a private grantmaking foundation. It was created by the Melville family, whose wealth came from the Melville Corporation, a national retailer that evolved into the CVS drugstore chain. The trust is dedicated to fighting homelessness, and funds local and national public policy programs on housing
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Non-profit
The Hobson Lucas Family Foundation (also known as the George Lucas Family Foundation) is the private grantmaking foundation of Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson and her husband, film writer and director George Lucas. In 1991, Geroge Lucas began his philanthropic career with the George Lucas Educational Foundation to invest in
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Non-profit
The Skadden Foundation (also known as the Skadden Fellowship Foundation) is a New York City-based left-of-center foundation that provides legal fellowships for law school graduates to work for legal advocacy organizations. Many of the organizations for which it supplies law school graduates are left-of-center and left-wing.
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Non-profit
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc. (ACLU Foundation of Northern California) is the charitable affiliate organization of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU of Northern California), a left-leaning activist organization and state-level arm of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ACLU
