Grassroots Organizing Gone Corporate
America’s uber-rich have found a crafty alternative to creating grassroots activism from scratch: using their money to buy influence over local groups that already exist. During the 2020 election cycle,…
NEO Philanthropy
Senate Democrats’ Dark Money ATM
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…
Fiscal Sponsorship, the Left, and Beginning to Explore Reform
Most people have never heard of one of the Left’s potent weapons—“fiscal sponsorship”—yet it’s the secret to the legion of liberal activist groups flooding American politics today.
The Left’s Top “Dark Money” Empires Brought in $1.7 Billion in 2019
In 2019 alone, the Left's the four biggest, most influential pass-through funders brought in $1.7 Billion. These “dark money” empires are Arabella Advisors, the Tides Nexus, NEO Philanthropy, and the…
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…