Democracy Fund

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? How and Why
Common sense might suggest that foundations interested in voter turnout should bankroll get-out-the-vote efforts rather than registration campaigns to get the most bang for their buck. In fact, they fund…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? Parties or Nonprofits?
Besides their tax exemption and tax deduction for donors, 501(c)(3)s enjoy a key advantage over political committees: distance from the two parties. While Republican and Democratic National Committees struggle with…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? Cogs in the Machine
We traced the finances and funders of 24 top voter registration nonprofits. Together, these organizations spent roughly $434 million in 2020 alone. Not all of this money went to election work, but…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? Saving Democracy or Democrats?
Powerful leftists might have viewed unseating President Donald Trump as a cause worth pouring any amount of money into, but one suspects that they’re less inclined to do so for…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Featured Items
Video: Pierre Omidyar, the Next George Soros
Pierre Omidyar is the founder of the multinational e-commerce corporation eBay, a philanthropist, and a financier of left-wing organizations, including investigative journalism projects. Omidyar is also a major funder of…
by CRC Staff on August 2, 2022

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #226: The Omidyar Nexus
You know Soros and Steyer, Buffett and Bloomberg, but you may not be familiar with one of the most important left-of-center billionaires of all: Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay.
by Michael Watson on July 8, 2022

Organization Trends
Conservatives, Meet Pierre Omidyar
Conservatives should add another mega-donor to their radar: Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay. Nonprofits that Omidyar funds and leads poured out over $1.1 billion between 2004 and 2020, most of…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 24, 2022

Philanthropy
“Democracy Funders” Lopsidedly Liberal
Of the top 200 givers to “democracy” as defined and tracked by Candid, 121 are ideologically categorizable as left-of-center and 21 are categorizable as right-of-center. Of the Candid list’s top…
by Michael Watson on May 3, 2022

Green Watch
Rise of the Eco-Right
The Capital Research Center broke the news on liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right, which advocate for carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations to address the supposed…
by CRC Staff on December 27, 2021

Organization Trends
How Much Did Arabella’s Center for Secure and Modern Elections Undermine the 2020 Election?
Arabella Advisors, the Left’s top “dark money” network, was highly active in manipulating the 2020 election. But unseating Trump was only one of Arabella’s goals last year. Others—like passing automatic…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 1, 2021