The left’s equivalent of the Koch network, Arabella Advisors, is a powerhouse distributor of mega money to progressive PACs and Democrat campaigns.
Arabella Advisors is the biggest name in politics you’ve never heard.
The firm is deeply involved with some of the most prominent financiers of progressive policies and Democratic Party candidates. It manages a complex network of tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations that quietly funnels money to progressive organizations, political action committees, and the campaigns of Democratic Party candidates.
In 2020 and 2022, according to federal election finance filings and nonprofit tax forms, groups linked to Arabella were active in financing Democrats and left-leaning get-out-the-vote efforts. A leader of one of the funds connected to Arabella has already promised to keep up their efforts in 2024.
Arabella Advisors is a private, Washington-based for-profit corporation. In its 2020 report, it says it provides “administrative services to nonprofits working to build a better world and [help] philanthropists on their journeys from idea to impact.”
Arabella didn’t respond to requests for comment by The Epoch Times.
Its website says its clients include families and individuals, foundations, nonprofits, and corporations. It doesn’t disclose financial records or details of its activities outside of so-called annual impact reports.
The latest such report, reflecting its activities in 2021 and 2022, said it worked to “deploy more than half a billion dollars in grants to more than 2,800 grantees working in more than 100 countries and almost every state in the United States.”
The report also shows evidence of Arabella’s political leanings. It lists defending democracy and elevating equity as part of “how it helps.”
In a December 2023 hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) described Arabella as “a key part of the Democrat Party’s political infrastructure in recent years.”
Mr. Smith asked about the amount of money allegedly flowing into Arabella from foreign sources. In his testimony, Capital Research Center President Scott Walter said one donor in particular, Swiss medical device billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, is sending millions of dollars to Arabella-linked groups through his nonprofit organizations the Wyss Foundation and the Berger Action Fund.
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Arabella Advisors’ Shadow Over America | Hayden Ludwig (Nov 30, 2020)
In 2019, we exposed Arabella Advisors’s left-wing activist network that had operated with almost no scrutiny from the mainstream media for close to 15 years. We traced Arabella’s half-billion-dollar empire to hundreds of “pop-up” groups—websites pretending to be grassroots organizations—with unknown funders. These fake grassroots groups lobby for abortion-on-demand, Obamacare, control of the courts, and gun control, all from the same office in Washington D.C.
