Hopewell Fund

Deception & Misdirection
Excavating Arabella’s Origin: Lessons Learned
Responsible Trails America’s narrative shamelessly copycatted other progressive outlines. It existed as an “organization” or “coalition” mostly through numerous professionally written press releases. Those in turn directed journalist inquiries to…
by Dave Skinner on April 13, 2022

Foundation Watch
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The Ford Foundation’s Millions
One “lefty” billionaire that has been exerting a big influence on our politics for decades and yet escapes nearly all media scrutiny. This is more striking because Henry Ford died…
by Ken Braun on February 24, 2022

Foundation Watch
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The Climate Hypocrites
In January 2019, more than 600 left-leaning policy and climate organizations co-signed a letter to members of Congress demanding “renewable energy” and “100 percent decarbonization.” The Ford Foundation has spent…
by Ken Braun on February 24, 2022

Foundation Watch
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: Subsidizing the Big Labor Left
Large labor unions, particularly the powerful and often left-wing public employee unions, are major supporters of Democratic and left-leaning causes. The Ford Foundation gave grants totaling $44.5 million in 2021…
by Ken Braun on February 24, 2022

Foundation Watch
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The “Dark Money” Arabella Network
According to its online grants database, the Ford Foundation gave nearly $13 million to left-leaning projects run by Arabella’s Hopewell Fund and New Venture Fund in 2021. An April 2021…
by Ken Braun on February 24, 2022

Foundation Watch
Who Are Arabella’s Big-Dollar Donors?
The “dark money” network created and run by Arabella Advisors is perhaps the most powerful and, until recently, the least-reported-on player in Washington politics. Tracing the Arabella network’s donors is…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 27, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
New Ethics Complaint:
Soros-Funded Arabella Front Helped Democrats Break Congressional Ethics Rules
According to the complaints from the watchdog group Government Accountability & Oversight, the Arabella-run group Co-Equal provided in-kind donations to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the form…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 25, 2022

Organization Trends
The Big Money Behind Abortion Activism
There’s no shortage of cash for the war on the unborn. Famed investor Warren Buffett is almost certainly the largest funder of abortion in human history. In the two decades…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 21, 2022

Organization Trends
Arabella’s Long War: “Keep It in the Ground”
For years “dark money” activists ran a coordinated campaign to sabotage and undermine the Trump administration from the offices of Arabella Advisors in Washington, DC. The campaign culminated in the…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 12, 2021

Organization Trends
Arabella’s Long War: Web of “Pop-Up” Groups
Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC, that quietly runs arguably the most powerful activist and lobbying network in politics. Beginning in 2017, Arabella turned its guns on…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 12, 2021