We Broke New Ground on Arabella’s “Dark Money” in 2022
This year (2022) was a big year for exposing the activist Left and the well-heeled, secretive interests bankrolling them. At the center is Arabella Advisors and its $1.6…
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Arabella’s $1.6 Billion “Dark Money” Haul in 2021
The country’s largest and perhaps most influential “dark money” network pulled in nearly $1.6 billion in 2021, according to new IRS filings, a mere $148 million drop from the record…
What Is the North Fund, Anyway?
In 2019, a new member of Arabella Advisors’ $1.7 billion “dark money” network appeared: the North Fund. Unlike the Arabella network’s other nonprofits, North Fund doesn’t share Arabella’s L Street…
BREAKING: Arabella-Aligned Groups Sued for Racial Discrimination, Violating Civil Rights Laws
The largest member of DC’s most powerful liberal lobbying force is facing legal action from a former employee for discrimination and wrongful discharge, according to filings posted with the…
Is the Arabella Network Telling the Truth About Itself? Part 1
Arabella Advisors is one of the Left’s top consultancies to foundations and mega-donors who want to make grants to “mission-driven” nonprofits. Its killer app is the Arabella network: a set…
Is the Arabella Network Telling the Truth About Itself? Part 2
In an internal memo, Arabella and New Venture Fund makes little distinction between Arabella and its nonprofit "client"—evidence that the network internally refers to itself as “Arabella” instead of making…
Hayden Ludwig on the Schiffer Report
CRC senior investigative researcher Hayden Ludwig pulls back the curtain on the lobbying power of the huge, left-wing network Arabella Advisors in an interview with radio host Paul Schiffer of…
The For-Profit DC Firm Staging America’s ‘Grassroots’ Movements
Behind the closed doors of an unassuming philanthropic consultancy in Washington, D.C., is one of the most powerful lobbying forces in the United States. The Atlantic has called it “the massive progressive dark-money…
Nonprofit Political Activities: Three Rivers of Money
On May 4, 2022, a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing on “Laws and Enforcement Governing the Political Activities of Tax Exempt Entities.” Scott Walter,…
Nonprofit Political Activities: “Dark Money”
One of the largest challenges posed by the phrase “dark money” is that there is no clear definition of it. Politicians use the term with no legal precision but only…