Showing 15 results for "Patricia Bauman"

Foundation Watch
The Bauman Family Foundation: Funding community organizers for a progressive paradise
The Bauman Family Foundation:  Funding community organizers for a progressive paradise By Jonathan M. Hanen, Foundation Watch, December 2014  [PDF here] Summary:  The Bauman Family Foundation is not well…
Jonathan M. Hanen

Green Watch
“Green” Mega-Donors Funding Key Senate Battleground Races
Green Senate 2022 doesn’t have a website or online presence, but this new political action committee (PAC) is funneling tens of thousands of dollars to key Democrats in Georgia, North…
Hayden Ludwig, Kevin Mooney

Labor Watch
Big Labor and the Democracy Alliance: Funding Union Priorities
The Democracy Alliance functions largely to channel contributions pledged by its well-heeled partners to left-of-center organizations that the alliance has recommended. Individual partners are reportedly expected to commit at least…
Robert Stilson

Organization Trends
Unearthing the Tides Nexus: The Tides Nexus
Since the 1970s, Tides has become a brand that now encompasses eight distinct organizations, seven 501(c)(3) public charities and one 501(c)(4) advocacy group, collectively referred to as the Tides Nexus.
Hayden Ludwig

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Activists Trying to Tilt 2021 Redistricting
With the 2020 Census behind us the country looks to the looming battle over the future of its congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade. But “dark money”…
Hayden Ludwig

Deception & Misdirection
The Groups and Persons Mentioned in Time’s “Shadow Campaign” Article
UPDATED March 2, 2021: expanded entries for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Molly Ball, and Vanita Gupta.  On February 4, 2021, Time published “The Secret History of the Shadow…
CRC Staff

Organization Trends
The Funders Committee for Civic Participation
No single organization better illustrates the elite Left’s coordination ahead of the 2020 Census and 2021 redistricting effort than the Funders Committee for Civic Participation, an affinity group for…
Hayden Ludwig

Organization Trends
The “Dark Money” Shape-Shifter: Another Voter Registration Effort
The Colombe Foundation (or Colombe Peace Foundation) is unique among the Proteus Fund’s donor collaboratives in that it’s a standalone nonprofit, not a fiscally sponsored project. Proteus established the foundation…
Hayden Ludwig

Deception & Misdirection
The Left’s “Dark Money” Coordinator: Eyes on 2020
Perhaps no project quite illustrates the role NEO Philanthropy plays on the Left better than the Funders Committee for Civic Participation. For one thing, while it’s made up of mega-funders,…
Hayden Ludwig

Organization Trends
“Indivisibly” Divided: Faux-Insurgents for the Professional Left
From town hall protests to anti-Trump marches and congressional office sit-ins, it would be a mistake to undervalue Indivisible’s presence in 2017 politics. The far-left organization’s leadership and activism is…
Matt Middleton