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Major private donors, family foundations and donor-advised funds finance a broad right‑wing ecosystem including think tanks (Heritage), policy networks (State Policy Network affiliates), and Project 2...
Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during the 2020 Kenosha unrest, killing two; he was later acquitted and has repeatedly appeared at paid conservative fundraisers where ticket prices ranged up to $39...
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) positions itself as “the nation’s leading nonprofit funder of other Veteran Service Organizations,” announcing $2 million in emergency grants in 2025 and a 2025–26 slate ...
Wealthy individuals, family foundations, and a set of large conservative grantmakers were central to an outsized flow of right‑wing money into U.S. politics in recent years: researchers documented mor...
Open Society Foundations (OSF) publishes a searchable grantee database that lists awarded grants, scholarships, and fellowships covering 2016–2023 and designed to show recipients and many award detail...
Oprah Winfrey’s philanthropic and education partnerships center on the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation and its long-running investments in schooling and scholarships — most notably the Oprah Winfr...
Open Society Foundations (OSF) reported $1.2 billion in expenditures for 2024 and says it awarded thousands of grants that year; OSF provides a searchable grants database of awarded grants for 2024 bu...
Major funders of U.S. right‑wing activity include wealthy individual donors, conservative foundations and political action committees, and donor-advised funds that channel grants to think tanks, legal...
Several and funder websites make searchable grants or grantee data available for investigators looking into support for , while individual foundations and donor collaboratives publish grantee lists or...
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) has continued large-scale grantmaking in the United States since 2017, funding a broad spectrum of advocacy, civil-rights, racial-justice, immigrant-rights, labor an...
The Gates Foundation does fund work that touches neurodegenerative disease, but it does so indirectly—by supporting institutions and programs whose projects align with broader foundation priorities ra...
Project Esther is framed in the available reporting as a Heritage Foundation–linked initiative aimed at policing and dismantling Palestine solidarity and left‑wing activism, not as a policy platform a...
Charles Koch has redirected at least $5.3 billion of nonvoting Koch Industries stock into two nonprofit vehicles in recent years, including a reported $4.3 billion gift to a newly created 501(c) calle...
Open Society Foundations (OSF) funds groups and individuals whose work advances “open society” values, prioritizing organizations with a vision that can produce lasting social change and building long...
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) primarily funds organizations but explicitly also provides grants and fellowships to individuals through specific programs such as the Open Society Fellowship, Soros...