The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a conservative-leaning think tank based in Austin, TX. The organization was founded in 1987 and states its mission is to defend liberty, personal responsibility and free enterprise in Texas and across the United States.

Emergent Order Foundation (EO Foundation) is a nonprofit creative studio that produces stories that promote individual dignity, thriving families and communities, civil discourse, and a culture of freedom. 1 Based in Austin, Texas, EO Foundation has produced dozens of films and series

Texas Scorecard (also known as Citizens News Guild and formerly the Empower Texans Foundation) is a nonprofit organization that intends to educate the public through its website, featuring investigative journalism and news reporting. Texas Scorecard reports on the advancement of self-governance in Texas from a pro-liberty right-of-center point of view.

The Zakat Foundation of America, also known simply as the Zakat Foundation, is a global Islamic charitable organization based in Bridgeview, Illinois, that offers aid to impoverished communities around the world. 1

The Public Private Strategies Institute (PPSI) is a nonprofit that supports policies encouraging the government to provide greater support to small businesses in the United States, particularly those owned by racial minorities. Public Private Strategies (PPS) was founded in 2017 by Aspen Institute senior fellow

The Public Rights Project (PRP) is an activist group that attempts to embed left-of-center attorneys in local public law offices to pursue litigation using what PRP calls “affirmative litigation” to advance left-of-center policy goals.

Texas Tribune Inc. is a Texas-based news organization that publishes news articles online and is the host of the annual Texas Tribune Festival. 1 Texas Tribune has a Climate Change series that reports on

The Loud Hound Foundation is a San Francisco-based left-of-center grantmaking foundation. 1 William Moritz is the president of the Loud Hound Foundation. His father, venture capital billionaire and Sequoia Capital director

The Chrest Foundation is an Irving, Texas-based private grantmaking foundation that serves as the giving vehicle for investors Jeff Jensen and Lou Anne King Jensen. The nonprofit supports causes such as left-leaning criminal justice policy, left-of-center environmental causes, and Turkish nonprofits.

The NCSL Foundation for Legislators, also known as the NCSL Foundation, is the nonprofit foundation arm of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a national association funded by the state and territorial legislatures of the United States. NCSL is officially nonpartisan and its executive committee is divided between

The Latino Community Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that funds organizations focused on the Latino community and its issues. Formerly an “affinity group” of United Way of the Bay Area and supporting organization of the San Francisco Foundation, the Latino Community Foundation became an independent, statewide organization

Our American Future Foundation (OAFF) is a left-of-center advocacy group that was incorporated in October 2022. 1 It acquired a fiscal sponsorship initiative administered by the

The Convention of States Foundation (COSF) is an organization that seeks to limit the power of the federal government. COSF supports calling an Article V convention of states to propose new Constitutional amendments restrict the jurisdiction and power of the federal government in order to return power to American citizens.

The Sills Family Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking foundation. The group focuses much of its grantmaking on liberal criminal justice policies, more permissive immigration policies, environmentalist issues, and other left-of-center priorities. It has expanded its giving to incorporate more members of the Sills family and has created a rapid

The Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) is a national-conservative research organization that traces Anglo-American conservative tradition from its earliest days up through the 20th century. 1 It is named for Edmund Burke, an 18th-century British

The Norman Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that focuses on environmentalist and economic justice issues and movement building. The Foundation mandates that grant requests should further equity and that funded projects are likely to achieve left-of-center systemic change. The Norman Foundation funds environmentalist groups that seek to preserve land

Texas 2036 is a center-left think tank focused on Texas-specific public policy advocacy. Former Texas 2036 CEO (and George W. Bush administration Secretary of Education) Margaret Spellings, who later became Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) president and CEO, has said that the center-left BPC’s thesis is “pretty much

The Cleveland Foundation is a grantmaking foundation based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in the 1910s, the foundation is among the largest grantmaking institutions in the United States with over $3.2 billion in assets under management and over $120 million in annual grants distributed. The foundation bills itself as the “world’s

American Endowment Foundation (AEF) is a donor-advised fund (DAF) provider that manages over $4 billion in assets and consists of 10,000 individual donor-advised funds 1 serving donors in all 50 states.

Local Progress Policy Institute trains and encourages local elected officials to advance left-of-center policies in their official roles. It is funded by labor unions and major left-of-center foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and includes mayors, district attorneys, county