Patient Power Is Dead: Promoters of the Status Quo
The Affordable Care Act wasn’t much of a reform for our broken third-party payment health care system, so much as a status quo effort to stuff millions more people into…
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Patient Power Is Dead: The Arabella Network
It is difficult to track the funding for many ACA advocates. There have been at least two dozen different Arabella subsidiaries with a major mission objective of promoting increases in…
Patient Power Is Dead: Arabella’s Secretive 2018 Election Projects
During the 2018 federal elections, Arabella deployed more than a dozen state-specific political projects to agitate against Republicans who didn’t support left-leaning health care policies. An October 2018 report in…
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…
Scott Walter Testifies to a Senate Finance Subcommittee on “the Political Activities of Tax Exempt Entities”
The Capital Research Center has studied the problems connected to the intersection of politics and tax-exempt entities for decades. Just in the last few months, many more scandals have erupted.
Excavating Arabella’s Origin: Arabella Trails
Before Arabella Advisors and its nonprofit minions was ALF—the “Arabella Legacy Fund," bankrolled by the Hewlett Foundation and Wilburforce Foundation. Its first initiative was Responsible Trails America, a “pop-up” astroturf…
Excavating Arabella’s Origin: Starting Small
Arabella has been all about other people’s money from day one, and it remains so. The money in this case was a special but tiny federal fund, the Recreational Trails…
Excavating Arabella’s Origin: Behind the Curtain
Arabella Legacy Fund’s IRS Form 990s were signed by Eric Kessler, actually Eric J. Kessler. In 2008, Arabella's throughput nearly quadrupled, to $6.1 million in gross receipts, $732,000 of which…
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…
Elon Musk’s Philanthropy Is Still Big Philanthropy
Boy-genius Elon Musk—of SpaceX, Tesla, and $5.7 billion in charitable gifts no one’s yet seen distributed—nearly broke the internet this week when first he became the largest single shareholder of…