North Fund

Deception & Misdirection
We Broke New Ground on Arabella’s “Dark Money” in 2022 [REPOST]
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 billion nonprofit…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 2, 2023

Deception & Misdirection
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 22, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
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…
by Hayden Ludwig, Parker Thayer on November 16, 2022

Organization Trends
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 11, 2022

Organization Trends
Sixteen Thirty Fund’s “Dark Money” Boosting Democrats in Midterms
To no one’s surprise, the Arabella network’s advocacy arms are spending heavily to boost Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. Since the beginning of the midterm cycle in January 2021,…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 19, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 5, 2022

Organization Trends
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 19, 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
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
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 10, 2021