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Michael Podhorzer is the assistant to the president for strategic research for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. Podhorzer was political director for the AFL-CIO from 1997 through 2019. The AFL-CIO’s political committees are substantial supporters of Democratic Party candidates, and the […]| InfluenceWatch
The Concord Fund, formerly titled the Judicial Crisis Network, 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 was […]| InfluenceWatch
Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel grants from liberal donors to center-left nonprofits […]| InfluenceWatch
The Ford Foundation was, for much of its history, the largest foundation in the United States, though it has been passed in recent years. As of December 2014, it possessed assets of $12.5 billion. The foundation has been a major force in American culture and, because of its size, has given a great deal of money […]| InfluenceWatch
The Solidaire Network is a left-of-center donor group for advancing race and gender-based causes. It is fiscally sponsored by the Tides Foundation and supported in part by the Proteus Group, left-of-center “pass-through” funders that obscure the identities of donors. Because of this, the Solidaire Network is not required to—and doesn’t—disclose donor identities nor executive compensation. […]| InfluenceWatch
