Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
Nearly $10 million flowed from Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, one of the Left’s most secretive “dark money” funders, to one of its top activist empires in 2019, fueling campaigns ranging from…
Legislators and analysts interested in how nonprofit funding has shifted the political debate in the United States ought to also pay attention to another funding apparatus. This apparatus appears to…
Majority Forward, the 501(c)(4) arm of the Democrats’ partisan Senate Majority PAC, is a “dark money” behemoth. You wouldn’t know it from the group’s nondescript website, but Majority Forward spent $515,000 backing Joe Biden…
Many on the Left would have the public believe their issue campaigns are born from broad grassroots support for Big Government policies. But it is far from the truth. The…
Atlantic Philanthropies’ island headquarters gives it critical advantages: Unlike domestic U.S. foundations, it never has to reveal its finances and can grant money to U.S. 501(c)(4) advocacy groups to influence…
For a decade, Atlantic Philanthropies quietly bankrolled perhaps the largest ongoing campaign to drastically overhaul American immigration policy in U.S. history. From 2004 until liberals gave up on the issue…
A huge opportunity for comprehensive immigration reform materialized with the Democrats’ nomination of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 election, and Atlantic curried the support of Latino voters as…
Obama’s reelection fueled Atlantic Philanthropies’ third—and final—attempt at comprehensive immigration reform. Shortly after the 2012 election, Atlantic and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations invited some 40 unnamed donors to discuss…