Learn how specific non-profits, government agencies, for-profits, labor unions, or other organizations are influencing public policy. Each profile below is carefully curated by an InfluenceWatch contributor and includes funding data where appropriate.
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View Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
Non-profit, Firearms Policy
For more information, see Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund (nonprofit)
View Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (Fidelity Charitable) is the largest public charity in the United States, holding over $30 billion in assets under management as…
View Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund
Non-profit, Firearms Policy
Everytown for Gun Safety (better known by its short name, Everytown) is a New York-based lobbying group that advocates for gun control measures while opposing…
View Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy
Vanguard Charitable is the fourth-largest manager of donor-advised funds (DAFs) and the 17th largest grantmaking organization in the United States as of 2017. Founded by…
View Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies)
Bloomberg Family Foundation (Bloomberg Philanthropies)
Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy
The Bloomberg Family Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation created by left-of-center billionaire and former Mayor of New York City and Democratic presidential primary candidate Michael…
View National Philanthropic Trust
National Philanthropic Trust
Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy
The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) is one of the largest charities in the United States, functioning as a management organization for left-of-center social impact investment…
View Trump Administration
Trump Administration
Government Agency, Other
This profile refers to the first Trump administration, in office from 2017 through 2021. For information on the second Trump administration that was inaugurated in…
View Crankstart Foundation
Crankstart Foundation
Non-profit
Crankstart Foundation is the family foundation of Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz. It is a private grantmaking organization that gives to numerous left-of-center organizations. In…
View The Trace
The Trace
Non-profit, Firearms Policy
The Trace is a left-of-center gun control news and journalism website created in 2015 with startup funding from Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, a…
View American Online Giving Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation
Non-profit
The American Online Giving Foundation (AOGF) is a charitable organization that establishes donor-advised funds (DAFs) to manage donations. Founded in 2016, AOGF has partnered with…
View Joyce Foundation
Joyce Foundation
Non-profit
The Joyce Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Chicago that finances advocacy for gun control, environmental causes, and liberal education policy; opposition to right-of-center…
View Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
Non-profit
The Ford Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It was formed in 1936 by Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, and his…
View Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Non-profit, Foreign Policy
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an invitation-only think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
View Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Non-profit, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, or Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), is a Boston-based group that provides grant money to Jewish and secular groups, many…
View Open Society Foundations (Open Society Institute)
Open Society Foundations (Open Society Institute)
Non-profit
The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros. OSF…
View Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund
Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund
Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy
The Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund is the research sector of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a left-leaning non-profit organization…
View Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Non-profit, Multi-Issue Advocacy
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a far-left political activist group in the United States. It claims to be the largest socialist organization in…
View Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund
Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund
Non-profit, Immigration Policy
The Partnership for a New American Economy Action Fund is the advocacy sector of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a left-leaning non-profit organization…
View National Students for Justice in Palestine
National Students for Justice in Palestine
Non-profit, Foreign Policy
National Students for Justice in Palestine is a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel advocacy group which creates student activism on college campuses. Its efforts include protesting Jewish…
View Code Pink (CODEPINK)
Code Pink (CODEPINK)
Non-profit, Foreign Policy
Code Pink (or CODEPINK) is a left-wing advocacy group founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin. It was created to oppose the 2003…
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Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund
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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (Fidelity Charitable) is the largest public charity in the United States, holding over $30 billion in assets under management as…
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund
Everytown for Gun Safety (better known by its short name, Everytown) is a New York-based lobbying group that advocates for gun control measures while opposing…
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Vanguard Charitable is the fourth-largest manager of donor-advised funds (DAFs) and the 17th largest grantmaking organization in the United States as of 2017. Founded by…
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Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts is a public charity formed in 2003 from the merger of seven foundations created by the Pew family, which made its…
Open Society Institute Baltimore
Open Society Institute-Baltimore (OSI-Baltimore) was a left-of-center grantmaking and advocacy organization that operated as the only United States field office of the Open Society Foundations…
New York Young Communist League (NYYCL)
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