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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

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

Deception & Misdirection
What’s the North Fund and How Did It Muck Up the 2020 Election?
The enigmatic North Fund is perhaps the biggest bankroller of left-wing state ballot initiatives you’ve never heard of. This little-known giant is behind the campaign for DC statehood (“51 for…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 17, 2021

Organization Trends
Defending Democrats Together: Bill Kristol’s $10 Million “Dark Money” Assault on Republicans
Bill Kristol’s Defending Democracy Together—a star Never Trump group with the amusing acronym “DDT”—is really just another front for the “dark money” Left. The the group’s 501(c)(4) arm received $10…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 15, 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

Organization Trends
How Much Damage Did Arabella’s Trusted Elections Fund Cause in 2020?
The mysterious Trusted Elections Fund, one of the professional Left’s top vote-by-mail groups created to warp the 2020 election, seems to have popped out of existence as quickly as it…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 22, 2021

Organization Trends
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,…
by Parker Thayer on November 4, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Committee Hearing Debacle
The Ford Foundation gives well over $100 million per year to programs that advance policy and political wins for the Left and Democratic politicians, yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Senator Cancel Culture
The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021