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Non-profit
United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is a quasi-non-governmental organization which represents the interests of mid-to-large U.S. cities. Since its creation in 1933, the USCM has lobbied for more subsidies from the federal government to municipal governments. The organization aggressively pushed for extra funding in 2020 to help cities combat
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Non-profit
March On is one of two major national left-wing advocacy organizations that were created from the January 21, 2017, Women’s March on Washington and related events that took place across the United States in response to the election of President Donald Trump the previous November (the other is the
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Non-profit
With over a billion dollars in assets, the Schusterman Foundation is a grantmaking organization that funds left-of-center causes including LGBT interests and educational curriculum development.
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Non-profit
Power California, formerly known as Mobilize the Immigrant Vote, is a voter-registration coalition that pushes left-of-center ideas and voter engagement with immigrants in the state of California.1 Despite calling itself a non-partisan organization, Power California promotes
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Person
Susan A. Buffett is the daughter and an heir to the estate of famous financier and left-wing donor Warren Buffett. She is a key player in the Buffett family’s support of numerous left-wing causes as the chair of the Sherwood Foundation and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund,
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Non-profit
The Simons Foundation is a private foundation founded by left-leaning Renaissance Technologies hedge fund founder James Simons and his wife, Marilyn. The Foundation funds research in four broad areas: mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, autism research, and “Outreach & Education.” The Foundation conducts its own research through the Flatiron
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Non-profit
Business Roundtable is a trade association and lobbying group whose membership consists of 181 CEOs from major American companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Apple. 1 The organization supports broadly pro-business policies, including streamlined business regulations,
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Non-profit
The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation is a private foundation established in 2003 that donates to causes including Holocaust education, mental health, and left-of-center organizations that support left-progressive advocacy in the United States and Israel.
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Political Party/527
Mayday PAC (also known as MAYDAY America) is a left-leaning, partially crowdfunded Super PAC (a large political action organization) that funds candidates who support increased regulations on election-related speech activity. It was founded by Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Harvard University’s school of law. Background On May 1,
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Person
Anthony Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Before that, he worked with various left-wing foundations focusing on civil and human rights. Under his tenure as ACLU executive director, he has overseen the transformation of the ACLU from a legal organization into more of
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Non-profit
The National Congress of American Indians Fund is the 501(c)(3) education arm of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), a lobbying group that represents treaty-recognized tribal governments. The NCAI and the NCAI Fund are located in Washington, D.C.
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Non-profit
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an advocacy group representing the interests of tribal governments. It was founded in 1944 to connect individual American Indian and Native Alaskan tribes, in order to oppose federal legislation that would limit tribal sovereignty or terminate tribal governments. NCAI began with 80
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Government Agency
The European Commission is the main executive arm of the European Union (EU). It conducts the majority of the management of the European Union’s budget,1 and it is the only institution within
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Non-profit
FairVote is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Takoma Park, Maryland that promotes and is a principal activist for ranked-choice voting (RCV), universal voter registration, and abolition of the Electoral College. FairVote was founded in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio by a group of activists, educators, and former government officials, and
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Person
Kathleen “Katie” McGrath is the spouse of Hollywood producer J.J. Abrams and director of the Kathleen McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Foundation, the couple’s left-of-center private foundation. McGrath also works as co-CEO of Bad Robot Productions, the film production company founded by Abrams, and as a public relations
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Person
Jeffrey J. “J.J.” Abrams is an American film director and donor to left-of-center political and philanthropic causes. His principal philanthropic vehicle is the Katie McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Foundation, which he runs with his wife, public relations executive and former aide to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) Kathleen
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Person
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon and was estimated by Forbes to be the richest person in the world as of March, 2019, with an estimated net worth of $131 billion. 1
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Person
Tom Perez is the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and a former Secretary of the Department of Labor during the Obama administration. A 2016 report from National Public Radio stated he was “considered the most liberal member of Obama’s Cabinet.” Similarly, a 2016 analysis
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Labor Union
The California Labor Federation (CLF) is a labor union in California associated with the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The Federation includes more than 1,200 member unions which claim to represent over 2.1 million California workers.
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Non-profit
Women’s March Global is a feminist advocacy organization. The Tides Center, the former fiscal sponsor of the group, called it the “global representation of all the sister marches around the world” that were born out of the January 21, 2017 “Women’s March” protest in the wake of the election
