The Trusted Elections Fund is a funding collaborative for center-left donors to coordinate grants to advocacy nonprofits ahead of the 2020 election. The Fund is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit created and managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, DC-based for-profit consultancy that caters

Alaskans for Better Elections (ABE) is a left-of-center ballot committee advocating for changes to the voting process in Alaska. Its initiatives include ranked choice voting, all-party primaries, and regulating anonymous campaign speech. 8 The

Nevadans For Secure Elections (NFSE) was a ballot measure committee formed by left-of-center operatives to promote and pass the successful Nevada Question 5, which authorizes registration of voters by Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles. The proposition was put onto the ballot after a similar measure was vetoed by then-Governor

Clean Elections Texas is a nonprofit founded in 2009 that advocates for left-of-center electoral policies within the Texas election administration, 33 including loosened voting requirements, limits on individual campaign contributions, and taxpayer-funded elections.

The Election Security Project was a left-of-center advocacy project of New Venture Fund, a left-of-center nonprofit controlled by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors. It is unclear if “Election Security Project” had an existence other than as a trade name of NVF.

Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) is a left-of-center advocacy group created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit managed by philanthropic consulting firm Arabella Advisors.

The Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME) is a left-of-center advocacy organization created as a project of the New Venture Fund, a leading “dark money” pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor, to promote sweeping changes to the elections process, including state laws that automatically register voters at state agencies.

Census Counts 2020 is a project of the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the 501(c)(3) component of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a left-of-center civil rights-focused political advocacy group which has staunchly opposed President Donald Trump. The program aims to increase participation among demographic groups likely to

Citizen Action for Fair Elections was the political action committee affiliated with Citizen Action of New York, a left leaning advocacy group that promotes political causes and candidates across New York and is affiliated with the national left-progressive organizing coalition People’s Action. The organization has previously taken part

Fair Elections Center (formerly the Fair Elections Legal Network) is a left-of-center litigation and election policy advocacy nonprofit created in 2006. The group originated as a project of the center-left funding and fiscal sponsorship group New Venture Fund; it has since been incubated into an independent nonprofit and was

Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections (also known as the Ohio Committee for Safe and Secure Elections) is a center-left election reform advocacy organization. The group is currently working to secure a left-leaning election administration policy question added as a ballot initiative in the 2020 election that would create

Stephen Allen Schwarzman is the chairman and chief executive officer of Blackstone Inc., the world’s largest alternative investment firm, which he co-founded in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson. 201

Miriam Adelson is an Israeli-American physician, philanthropist, and conservative political donor. Adelson is the widow of the late billionaire businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson. In 2007, the Adelsons established the Adelson Family Foundation, a private grantmaking organization that primarily supports programs that benefit the state of Israel and

Volunteer Blue is an online software tool created to help connect left-of-center activists with volunteer roles at Democratic Party-supporting organizations. 236 It is a project of Together We Elect, a

The Movement for Black Lives Action Fund (M4BL Action) is the lobbying and electoral advocacy affiliate of the Movement for Black Lives, a left-of-center organization associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. 247

Somos PAC is a Democratic-aligned political action committee (PAC) and the sister organization of Somos Votantes, which describes itself as a “Latino-led, Latino-focused organization” aimed at empowering Latinos to participate in democracy. 258 In 2019,

Democracy and Polarization Lab (DPL) is a political research organization housed at Stanford University that researches strategies on reducing “polarization” in the American electoral system. It also studies disinformation, election security, and “democratic accountability.” Its provides training to graduate students studying about electoral research methods.

Every State Blue is a hybrid political action committee (PAC) founded in late 2016 with the mission of supporting Democratic candidates in Republican-leaning districts and others traditionally under-resourced by Democratic outside-spending groups. Initially known as “It Starts Today,” the organization was launched after the 2016 elections by Jonathan Zucker, a

Legal Accountability Center is a left-of-center activist group that files legal action against individuals and other organizations that it claims are engaged in “disinformation campaigns” or whom it cliams “violate professional conduct rules.” It also claims to take action against supposed “Anti-Democratic Organizations.”   

The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) is a right-of-center judicial advocacy group. The group supports the confirmation of right-leaning judges who support the judicial philosophy of “originalism,” which holds that judicial interpretation should rely on the original meaning of legal texts rather than contemporary social or political circumstances. The Concord Fund