Sixteen Thirty Fund

Commentary, Green Watch
Left-Wing Activist Sets Himself Up to Profit from His Own Climate Plan
Bracken Hendricks is cofounder and senior adviser to Evergreen Action, an activist group pushing for sweeping policy change to combat global warming. As CEO of Urban Ingenuity, consulting firm that…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 22, 2020

Deception & Misdirection
Sixteen Thirty Fund Carpet-Bombed the 2020 Election with Leftist “Dark Money”
Democrats had no shortage of left-wing “dark money” groups at their backs in the 2020 election. Chief among them was the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group and the…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 15, 2020

Commentary, Deception & Misdirection
Sheldon Whitehouse’s Hypocrisy on Liberal “Dark Money” Isn’t Fooling Anyone
For Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the Democrats’ leading hawk for donor disclosure, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett were an excuse to subject the nation to…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 11, 2020

Deception & Misdirection, Media Hits
“Dark Money” Fighting the Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett
CRC President Scott Walter sits down with Richard Pollack to discuss the millions of dollars in "dark money" that went into fighting the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. He discusses…
by Scott Walter on October 29, 2020

Commentary, Organization Trends
Inside the Left’s Web of “Dark Money”
The fight over Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court is only the beginning of judicial battles to come. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and others who pretend that “dark…
by Scott Walter on October 26, 2020

Special Report
Leftist “Dark Money” Activists Target America’s Courts
Despite liberal claims about a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” to confirm constitutional originalists to federal courts—fueled by rivers of “dark money” from conservative donors—it’s the Left, not the Right that has…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 15, 2020

Op-Ed Column, Organization Trends
Left-Wing “Dark Money”—Ignored by the Press—Could Tip Several Elections
News broke recently of shadowy, left-wing nonprofit network Arabella Advisors’ plans to “carpet bomb” the 2020 election, per a new report detailing the $635 million in revenues the network boasted in 2018. But the…
by Sarah Lee on October 13, 2020

Deception & Misdirection
Sixteen Thirty Fund Funneling “Dark Money” into Left-Wing PACs
A “dark money” giant is funneling millions of dollars into the 2020 election to tilt the outcome in favor of Democrats—while complaining about money in politics. The Sixteen Thirty Fund…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 25, 2020

Foundation Watch
A Donor Can Stand Up
(PDF here) Conservatives may not approve of many of the causes that former billionaire Charles Feeney has given money to over the years, but they would agree that he…
by Neil Maghami on April 13, 2015