Best of CRC Media Hits for 2022
From a communications perspective, CRC increased its reach into state media outlets, while continuing to develop news interest inside the Beltway. CRC staff topped out at over 300 media hits…
Sixteen Thirty Fund
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…
‘Dark Money’ on the Left
CRC’s Hayden Ludwig calls out Arabella Advisor’s hypocrisy in a letter to the editor that the Wall Street Journal published on October 16, 2022. In a letter (Sept. 29), …
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,…
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…
DC Dark Money Pours into Effort to Block an Alaska Constitutional Convention
In November, Alaskans will go to the polls to decide whether they want to hold a state constitutional convention to decide important issues, such as reapportioning the Permanent Fund dividend, which has…