The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation serves for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change, issuing grants for a variety of projects that include conservation, global health, disaster recovery, education, and […]| InfluenceWatch
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The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (Astraea) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization that has funneled over $31 million to bolster Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI) political organizations. Since 2013, Astraea has worked extensively with the U.S. government and was provided funds by the Obama administration to support international LGBTQI political efforts. It […]| 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
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
