Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s

New Virginia Majority is a left-of-center mobilization group which works to expand voting in left-leaning demographics to support left-wing to radical-left economic and social policy in Virginia. The organization played a role in establishing and maintaining Virginia’s electoral college “flip” from Republicans to Democrats starting with the 2008 presidential election.

The New Florida Majority (formerly the Florida New Majority 56) was a left-of-center advocacy group which worked to expand voting in Democratic-leaning demographics to break the Republican-majority government in Florida and win the state’s

The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Founded from late 1936 to early 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified with radical-left groups and political orientations throughout its history. In its early years the National Lawyers Guild was significantly influenced

The Marguerite Casey Foundation is the smaller of the two major left-of-center private foundations created from the legacy of United Parcel Service founder James E. Casey, the other being the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Marguerite Casey Foundation emerged nearly two decades after James E. Casey’s death from Casey

The Leon Levy Foundation is a private New York City-based grantmaking foundation created from the estate of hedge fund manager Leon Levy. It makes grants to Jewish causes, New York-based institutions, neuroscience research, and in support of archeological ventures. It also has a “human rights” portfolio that makes grants to

The JPB Foundation is a private foundation created by Barbara Picower in 2011. It is one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States. 278 Focused on medical, environmental, and poverty issues, the

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

Harvard University is one of the oldest, most prestigious, and most powerful universities in the world. Founded in 1636, the university maintains a $40.9 billion academic endowment, the largest in the world, as of April 2021.

Goldman Sachs is an international investment bank and financial services corporation based in New York City. Since its founding in 1869, the firm has since grown into one of the largest and most influential financial institutions in the world. Since in the 1980s, a number of Goldman Sachs executives have

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.

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) sponsors initiatives that advance left-of-center causes, particularly those that it claims will benefit Black voters, and that trains policymakers and activists who support these policies. Founded in 1976, the foundation is affiliated with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), an alliance of Black Democratic members

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes policies such as increased funding for social welfare, housing, transportation, and other common left-of-center causes.

The Children’s Defense Fund is a left-of-center organization that works to increase the size of government and expand the welfare state. The organization focuses on increasing government spending on education, health care, and day care programs for American children.

Ceres is a left-of-center environmentalist group based in Boston, Massachusetts. Ceres claims to make the ‘business case’ for climate action; 523 in practice, this involves leveraging a network of investors totaling more than $32 trillion in

Every Texan (formerly Center for Public Policy Priorities or CPPP) is an advocacy group based in Texas which promotes left-of-center healthcare, education, and economic policies.  Every Texan says that the policies it promotes will lead to “an exciting, demographically changing state” with more government involvement in health care, education, and

CASA de Maryland (also called CASA) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) immigration advocacy organization that helps immigrants, most often of Central American extraction, find employment, regardless of their legal status in the United States. CASA’s executive director has told workers he will never turn their names over to federal immigration officials.

The Campaign Legal Center is an advocacy group aligned with left-of-center interests that supports strict enforcement of campaign finance laws. Campaign Legal Center attorneys track and participate in a variety of cases around the country involving campaign finance law at the federal, state, and local levels. The Campaign Legal Center

The California Wellness Foundation is a grantmaking foundation created in late 1990 and endowed in early 1992 because of the conversion of non-profit California health insurer Health Net into a for-profit health insurance corporation. Announcing the terms of the 1992 endowment, California Wellness stated that it had become the “largest

The division does business as North America’s Building Trades Unions; for more information on the connections of the BCTD, see the NABTU profile. North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), also known as the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), is a department of the American Federation of