Group



Leadership



Legal status Assets and/or revenue Major funders



Activities





Alliance for

Justice Nan Aron, President (c)(3) group of 100 entities with allied (c)(4), Alliance for Justice Action Campaign 2012:

$5,418,437 in assets,

$3,909,980 in revenue Include American Bar Association, Arcus Fdn., Atlantic Philanthropies, Susan Thompson Buffett Fdn., California Endowment, Edna McConnell Clark Fdn., Ford Fdn., Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, George Gund Fdn., John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn., George Soros, Charles Stewart Mott Fdn., Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program's donor-advised fund, and Woods Fund of Chicago. Politicizing judicial selection, guiding advocacy groups, producing documentaries, and lobbying for liberal agenda

American Bridge 21st Century Founded by David Brock, who also founded Media Matters for America and became chairman of Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington earlier this year



Brad Woodhouse, President Super PAC with allied (c)(4), American Bridge 21st Century Foundation Annual budget approaches $18,000,000 Include George Soros Conducts and distributes opposition research on conservative political candidates



"Macaca" scoop



Employs 44 people in 41 states

BerlinRosen Co-founded by political consultants Valerie Berlin and Jonathan Rosen For-profit public relations firm U.S. Labor Department data indicates $8.2 million from client labor unions in the last two years Labor clients include Service Employee Int'l Union's Committee on Political Education and Communication Workers of America



Other representative clients include League of Conservation Voters, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York University Law School's Brennan Center for Justice, Russell Sage Fdn., and UN Fdn. Concocted and devised media strategy for September's national "fast-food workers strike"

Center for American Progress/

Think Progress blog Founded by John Podesta



Neera Tanden, President



Sen. Tom Daschle, Chairman (c)(3) with allied (c)(4), Center for American Progress Action Fund 2012:

$50,042,142 in assets,

$39,201,517 in revenue Include Atlantic Philanthropies, Ford Fdn., labor unions, Progressive Insurance chairman Peter B. Lewis, George Soros, and Tides Fdn. CAP offers policy analysis and proposals talking points, and events, and contributes to public discourse; its August 2011 report Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America attacked Bradley



Among other things, CAP Action generally does the same kind of thing – though arguably even more aggressively – including by regularly attacking Koch brothers and their allies



Blog is daily-updated source of these and other, similar attacks on others

Center for Media and Democracy Lisa Graves Executive Director (c)(3) 2012:

$393,453 in assets,

$737,223 in revenue Include Grodzins Fund, Marisia Fdn., Park Fdn., Rockefeller Family Fdn., George Soros, Bill Moyers' Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Schwab Charitable Gift Fund's donor-advised fund, and Tides Fdn. Created and maintains ALECExposed.org, PRWatch online magazine, and SourceWatch platform mimicking Wikipedia



Launches "original investigations" and supports "strategic public-education campaigns"

Change.org Co-founded by Stanford classmates Ben Rattray, Chief Executive Officer, and

Mark Dimas, Chief Technology Officer For-profit "social-enterprise" "tech startup"



"Certified" as a "B Corporation" by the private "B Lab" (c)(3) Sells to mostly non-profit advertisers that sponsor petitions on a cost-per-user-email-address basis; estimated cost of a sponsored petition is $1.75 per email address Purports to make sponsored-petitions platform a "service" to advertisers and 70 million users on its open platform



Mostly nonprofit advertisers get way to advance causes and connect with new supporters by sponsoring petitions; users get opportunity to connect to groups working on issues of interest to them by signing petitions



Petition profiles and site blog entries are often hard-edged attacks on opponents

Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW) Media Matters for American founder David Brock, Chairman (c)(3) 2012:

$1,659,512 in assets,

$2,264,596 in revenue Include Arca Fdn., Dwoskin Family Fdn., Gill Fdn., Service Employees Int'l Union, Stephen Silbertstein Fdn., George Soros, and Tides Fdn. Files government complaints and occasional lawsuits against politicians and interest groups it deems corrupt



Created and maintains BermanExposed.com

Color of Change Co-founded by Van Jones



Rashad Robinson, Executive Director Project of Citizens Engagement Laboratory, which has an allied (c)(3), the CEL Education Fund Include George Soros Says it seeks to "strengthen Black America's political voice," but actually does little more than take advantage of often tragic, racially sensitive events to spread progressive political agenda



For example, led campaign against Bradley-supported American Legislative Exchange Council in wake of Trayvon Martin incident



Has strong ties and various partnerships with Service Employees International Union

Common Cause Miles Rapoport, President Allied (c)(3), Common Cause Education Fund 2012:

$2,366,327 in assets,

$5,708,903 in revenue Include Arca Fdn., Carnegie Corp. of New York, Joyce Fdn., George Soros, and Barbra Streisand Fdn. Claims to be nonpartisan anti-corruption and campaign-finance "watchdog," but actually merely advances progressive agenda and tries to block conservatism in general – including Koch brothers and American Legislative Exchange Council in particular

Democracy Alliance National Education Association executive director John Stocks, Chairman,



Former Atlantic Philanthropies president and chief executive officer Gara LaMarche, President Secretive, exclusive, private network of invited member "partners" who meet twice a year About 150+ partners pay initial $25,000 fee and $30,000 in annual dues, and must give at least $200,000 per year to endorsed groups



Reportedly plans to steer roughly $40 million to favorite causes this year Members reportedly have included Tim Gill, Jared Polis, George and Jonathan Soros, Andy Stern, Tom Steyer, and Pat Stryker Premier financial clearinghouse for liberal policy groups and non-(c)(3) allies



Effectively serves as "accreditation agency," partnering favored ones with major funders

Fenton Communications Founded by David Fenton, Chief Executive Officer For-profit public relations firm Clients include long list of liberal groups at work in education, environment, health, human rights, philanthropy, women's issues, global issues, and labor movement –including AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union Fenton was architect of "Alar scare" for Natural Resources Defense Council and says he now applies "lessons of Alar" in other contexts; scare was based on supposedly cancer-causing chemical used by apple growers

FitzGibbon Media Founded by Trevor FitzGibbon, President For-profit public relations firm Representative clients include Amnesty International, Climate Parents, Color of Change, Change.org, Common Cause, Ford Fdn., Global Zero anti-nuclear weapons group, Julian Assange Defense Fund, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, MoveOn.org, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Netroots Nation, Social Security Works, Wikipedia, and Wisconsin Progress Organized effort to highlight supposedly inhumane conditions of solitary confinement for Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning



Leading effort to push gun control after Sandy Hook incident for Mayors Against Illegal Guns



Supporting journalist Jeremy Scahill's film Dirty Wars about targeted-assassinations and drone programs of Obama administration

Media Matters for America Founded by David Brock, who became chairman of Citizen for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington earlier this year (c)(3) and allied (c)(4), Media Matters Action Network 2012:

$5,345,764 in assets,

$9,628,580 in revenue Include Joyce Fdn., National Education Association and other labor unions, Stephen M. Silberstein Fdn., George Soros, and Tides Fdn. Says it documents supposed conservative Media bias



Primarily focuses on "fact-checking" Rush Limbaugh and Fox News hosts and guests



Used to also focus heavily on Glenn Beck

Mother Jones Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, Co-editors,



David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief Published by Foundation for National Progress (c)(3) 2012:

$1,879,169 in assets, $11,940,791 in revenue Include Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors' donor-advised fund, Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, George Soros, and Surdna Fdn. "47%" scoop



Among other things, aggressively covers what it calls conservative "dark money" and elections

One Wisconsin Now Scot Ross, Executive Director (c)(4) with allied (c)(3), One Wisconsin Institute One Wisconsin Institute in 2012:

$303,040 in assets,

$327,062 in revenue Include AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union Among other things, created and maintains BradleyWatch.org

Open Society Institute Founded by George Soros, Chairman,



Christopher Stone, President (c)(3) private operating foundation 2012:

$685,871,435 in assets,

$325,168,087 in revenue George Soros Funds and works with groups that have missions spanning the larger agenda of the Left and many of which aggressively attack conservatives