Movement Alliance Project (formerly Media Mobilizing Project) is a left-wing community organizing outfit in Philadelphia that funds a variety of left-leaning policy campaigns and organizations. The organization was founded in 2005 to organize left-progressive campaigns around poverty, criminal justice, and public schools. The organization manages several projects including the People’s Media

Lambda Legal Defense and Educational Fund, better known as Lambda Legal, is a left-leaning, social justice-oriented LGBT advocacy organization based in New York City. Lambda Legal advocates against gender and sexual orientation discrimination, HIV discrimination in the workplace, and immigration issues that concern LGBT or HIV-positive immigrants and refugees. The

Lake Research Partners is a political polling and research firm founded in 1995 by Celinda Lake. The firm is based in Washington, D.C. and has worked with numerous left-leaning organizations and Democratic political candidates. 1

International Rivers is a nonprofit environmentalist organization. Founded in 1985, the organization has supported the concept of “environmental personhood” and has received funding from the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic enterprise of billionaire left-of-center financial-industry billionaire and political donor George Soros. International Rivers has opposed the use

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, development, and pro-international-migration nongovernmental organization (NGO). 1 IRC has supported Biden administration efforts to expand pathways for refugee

International Crisis Group is a foreign policy non-governmental organization dedicated to preventing wars, genocides, and other global conflicts. Its staffers, leaders, and board of trustees members consist of former United Nations employees, foreign policy scholars, and philanthropists such as billionaire left-of-center financier George Soros.

The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm. The Hopewell Fund manages a number of left-of-center single-issue advocacy groups, including the Economic Security Project and pro-Obamacare Get America Covered. The Hopewell Fund often operates alongside its “sister” nonprofits, primarily

The Groundswell Fund is a “pass through” grantmaking organization that funds advocacy and direct-services groups working on reproductive issues—especially those that advocate for increased access to abortion for minority groups—and transgender interests. History and Background The Groundswell Fund focuses on increasing access to low-cost or government-funded abortions, contraception, midwifery, and

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a nonprofit think-tank founded in 1972 by Willy Brandt, at the time West German Chancellor and leader of the left-progressive Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Freedom House is a United States-based non-governmental organization that is primarily funded by the United States government but also receives money from private grantmaking foundations. 1 The organization’s focus is on research and analysis of political

Faith in Public Life is a left-of-center policy advocacy organization which focuses on economic and social issues. The organization is made up of politically liberal clergy and faith leaders. Faith in Public Life was originally a project of Center for American Progress (CAP), a large liberal think tank with

The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is a private foundation that provides grants primarily to left-of-center activist groups, with a focus on supporting liberal expansionist immigration policy, LGBT interests, education, and organizations in the San Francisco Bay area.

The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is an international affairs think tank with offices in multiple cities across Europe. Founded in 2007, the council focuses on strengthening European and international bilateral relations and has attacked European governments that have resisted European Union (EU) mandates. The council supports having

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) provides legal representation to death row prisoners in Alabama where no public funding existed for their defense. It was founded by Bryan Stevenson, author of the book and film Just Mercy.

The Drum Major Institute (DMI) is a nonprofit that advocates left-of-center policies. DMI was founded by supporters of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is run by King Jr.’s oldest son, Martin Luther King III, and King III’s wife, Arndrea Waters King. DMI has received funding from the Sixteen Thirty

Drug Policy Alliance is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates for total drug decriminalization and uses identity politics as a basis for determining how it wants drug law enforcement spending to be repurposed. 1

The David Rockefeller Fund is a left-of-center philanthropic organization that makes grants related to art, climate change, and criminal justice. Founded in 1989 and expanded in 2001, its grants go to independent organizations as well as initiatives affiliated with established groups like the Tides Foundation and the Arabella

Courage Campaign Institute (CCI) is the educational arm of the left-of-center advocacy group Courage Campaign. Through multiple websites and media outlets, CCI aims to educate the public on issues regarding LGBT rights, liberal expansionist immigration policies, and other issue areas.

Courage Campaign (CC) is a left-of-center organization that uses grassroots lobbying methods to bring attention to progressive issues such as immigration, net neutrality, and social justice. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Los Angeles, California. The organization signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal and

The Civil Marriage Collaborative (CMC) was a pro-gay marriage advocacy group created by the Proteus Fund, a major center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit. With the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the CMC closed in 2016. Organizational Overview In