Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the left-progressive New Venture Fund

Margaret Sanger was a prominent advocate for contraception, eugenics, population control, and abortion best known for founding the American Birth Control League, the immediate predecessor of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Sanger popularized the term “birth control” as central to her larger philosophy of Birth Control (later

Tara McGowan is a Democratic political operative best known as the head of the “ACRONYM” network of Democratic Party-aligned outside advocacy groups, which is known to include the social-welfare advocacy group ACRONYM, the political action committee (PAC) PACRONYM, the left-of-center media outlet Courier Newsroom, and the digital

The Fund for Policy Reform is a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization founded and funded by left-of-center megadonor George Soros within his Open Society Foundations network of groups. The Fund for Policy Reform provides grants to left-of-center organizations, most notably in drug policy, criminal justice, and election administration policy, in

MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Formerly known as MacKenzie Bezos, she is recognized as the third-wealthiest woman in the world after a divorce settlement left her with an estimated $37 billion.

Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) is a left-of-center private foundation which was formed in 1934 by railroad magnate Louis W. Hill. In 2023, NWAF updated its grantmaking to focus on “racial, social, and economic justice,” aligning more strongly to left-of-center causes.

The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a left-of-center New York-based membership organization that works with Hispanic communities across the United States, with its member groups primarily on the East Coast. The HF works in areas of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement, and the environment, with advocacy targeted and specific

The Miner Anderson Family Foundation (MAF) is a San Francisco-based grantmaking organization that supports local arts and left-leaning policy advocacy groups.264 Oracle heiress Nicola Miner and her husband, author

The NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates for legislation. It is the lobbying arm of NETWORK Advocates, which handles its direct activism and the training of local communities to organize for left-of-center causes. NETWORK is an outspoken critic of Republican policies. The

The Progress Unity Fund (PUF) is a radical-left group that fiscally sponsors activist organizations, including the ANSWER Coalition, Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD), the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and Pivot to Peace. PUF is closely connected to the Workers World Party (WWP) and

Never Again Action is a far-left Jewish group that organizes protests in cities across the United States against enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, casually comparing immigration enforcement officials to Nazis and comparing the detention of illegal immigrants with the Holocaust. Background Never Again Action is a liberal Jewish group of

Sean McElwee is an activist and political consultant who advocates for the Democratic Party to endorse more left-progressive policy platforms. He is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Progress, a left-of-center public research group and a project of Tides Advocacy. McElwee is also the director of

The Virginia Civic Engagement Table is a coalition of left-of-center advocacy groups that functions as a hub for environmentalist anti-conventional energy organizations, expanded voting rights, expanded abortion, and protection of illegal immigrants. The organization is the Virginia branch of State Voices, a nationwide coalition of left-leaning nonprofits that has

Not to be confused with the Bermuda-based Atlantic Philanthropies (Nonprofit) The Atlantic Foundation is a New Jersey-based philanthropic organization founded by J. Seward Johnson, Sr. in 1963. Primarily providing artistic and other apolitical grants and donations, it has provided many left-leaning grants since receiving funds from the Pacific Foundation

Jason Franklin is a co-founder of the left-of-center Solidaire Network. 396 Franklin has spent over twenty years engaged with left-progressive philanthropy.

In the Public Interest (ITPI) is left-of-center research and policy group that opposes privatization and defends government-provided goods and services. It publishes research, blogs, and other forms of communication to help other left-leaning policy organizations and elected officials. It is a project of the PowerSwitch Action (formerly Partnership for

Citizens Action Coalition (formerly Citizens Energy Coalition) is a political advocacy organization that lobbies for left-of-center causes, especially environmentalist policies, in Indiana. It was formed in 1974 when several labor unions, churches, nonprofits, and other organizations, united by their shared environmentalist outlook and concern that utility companies were exploiting consumers,

NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice is a left-of-center social advocacy group organized by politically left-of-center Catholic nuns. NETWORK is an outspoken critic of Republican policies. The group first rose to prominence with its 2012 “Nuns on the Bus” tour in opposition to then-Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan

Stop Handgun Violence is a lobbying group that that advocates for increased gun control legislation, specifically against the rights of Massachusetts handgun owners. Alongside typical lobbying activities, the organization specializes in billboard advertisements, due to its President, John Rosenthal, owning a prominent billboard next to Boston’s Fenway Park.

WESPAC (Westchester People’s Action Coalition) Foundation is a left-of-center nonprofit that supports advocacy movements for social reformation. Founded in 1974, WESPAC advocates for progressive social change in Westchester County, New York, and beyond. 472 It is