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⭐️Introducing Arabella Advisors - World's richest and Largest dark money juggernaut of Leftists and Liberals

(And yes, our now s days favorite George Soros is neck deep involved with it)

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1. Arabella Advisors (commonly called “Arabella”) is a philanthropic consulting company that guides the strategy, advocacy, impact investing, and management for high-dollar left-leaning nonprofits and individuals.
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2. The company was founded in 2005 by Eric Kessler, a Clinton administration alumnus and long-time staffer at the League of Conservation Voters who remains a senior managing partner and principal at the firm.
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3. Kessler is closely involved in Democratic Party and left-wing politics. He is a former Clinton administration White House appointee and previously served as national field director for the League of Conservation Voters.
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3(a) Kessler later served as a member of the now-defunct Clinton Global Initiative. Kessler chairs a committee on culinary advocacy for the center-left James Beard Foundation and is co-founder of the Chef Action Network.
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3(b) He also serves on the board of directors of the National Democratic Institute. Eric Kessler was born in 1972. Kessler’s family operated Fel-Pro, a Chicago-based automobile parts manufacturer with a “family-centric management style and
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3(c) and progressive outlook on business ownership” which his family sold in 1998 for an estimated $750 million. The company was reportedly in the Kessler family for 80 years and was ranked by Forbes one of the 100 best companies to work in America.
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4. Eric Kessler is the founder of Arabella Advisors, a for-profit firm that manages four nonprofits, which in turn sponsor hundreds of “fake” groups: websites designed to look like standalone activist organizations.
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4(a) According to disclosure forms filed in those nonprofits’ 2018 IRS Form 990 filings, Kessler’s stake in Arabella Advisors exceeds 35 percent (the exact figure is unknown).
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5. Arabella Advisors manages five nonprofits that serve as incubators and accelerators for a range of other left-of-center nonprofits: the New Venture Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Hopewell Fund, the Windward Fund, and the North Fund.
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6. These nonprofits have collectively hosted hundreds of left-wing policy and advocacy organizations since the network’s creation (referred to by critics as “pop-up groups” because they are little more than websites.
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7. Arabella Advisors and its affiliated entities utilize tax regulations in which groups who use a fiscal sponsorship arrangement do not have to file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service.
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7(a) Using "pass-through" arrangements, funding is passed from one organization to another, making it difficult to trace where a donor's money ends up.
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8. An interlocking set of current and former key
employees at Arabella Advisors also serve as Directors, Officers, and Key Employees of Arabella-managed nonprofit organizations.
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8(a) The entities appear to avoid being classified as “related organizations” by the IRS by not quite having a majority of shared directors.
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9. Arabella Advisors has "undeniably benefited from the rush of panicked political giving on the left during the Trump years."In 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund donated $410 million toward defeating Trump and winning Democratic control of the U.S. Senate.
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9(a) Because of the way they are legally structured, Arabella Advisors and its affiliated groups are not required to disclose their donors, and they have not opted to do so.
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10. There’s a distinctly maritime theme to the names of Kessler’s nonprofits and company. “Windward,” for instance, is a reference to the side of a ship facing the wind (as opposed to the “leeward” side).
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10(a) As strange as it sounds, the reason for this theme is perhaps hidden in the New Venture Fund’s 2006 application for taxexempt status under the IRS. At that time, the nonprofit was known as the Arabella Legacy Fund,
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10(b) a name almost certainly taken from Kessler’s for-profit consultancy (Kessler himself served as founding president of the Fund). It adopted its current name in 2009. According to its organizational documents filed with the IRS,
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10(c) the New Venture Fund was created to turn evangelical Christians into environmentalist activists, going so far as to provide an “Environmental Toolkit . . . designed to enable Pastors to integrate creationcare teaching into their ministry”:
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10(d) The Pastor’s toolkit includes materials to educate Pastors regarding creation care’s basis in Scripture, as well as info for Pastors and their congregations on various environmental topics and suggestions for how congregations can take action to care for God’s creation!!!

11. While neither Arabella Advisors nor Eric Kessler have is closed the origins of their groups’ names, this early effort to embed environmentalism into evangelical Protestant churches may have informed the names Kessler gave to three of Arabella Advisors’
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11(a) four in-house nonprofits (and the company itself): the Arabella Legacy Fund (now New Venture Fund), Hopewell Fund, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The names themselves appear to be linked to early
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11(b) American history and specifically the Puritans of the seventeenth century. John Winthrop, founder of Boston and leader of the second wave of Reformed Protestant émigrés who fled Anglican England, is perhaps best-known for his celebrated sermon “A Model of Christian Charity”

11(c) in which he exhorted his flock “that we shall be as a city upon a hill.” The sermon completed, Winthrop and his followers then set forth for the New World aboard 11 ships.

11(d) Their flagship was named the Arbella or Arabella and was closely followed by the ship Hopewell. They departed in the year 1630.
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12. Arabella’s “Dark Money” Network:
Arabella Advisors provides much more to the institutional Left than donor advice—it runs a network of hundreds of “front” groups.
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13. Philanthropic advising is lucrative for Arabella, in part because its clients are so wealthy: it claims its donors’ assets are worth more than $100 billion.2
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13(a) Between 2007 and 2017, Arabella’s four nonprofit Funds paid a combined $76 million in management fees to Arabella Advisors. Some of the nation’s largest grantmaking institutions, including the Rockefeller, Packard, and Kellogg Foundations,

13(b) are donors to
the funds managed by Arabella. It remains unclear why such large and powerful institutions seek outside philanthropic consulting, but presumably a significant part of Arabella’s appeal lies in its ability to obscure large financial transactions.
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14. Between 2013 and 2017, the Arabella network received a staggering $1.6 billion in contributions, which it has used to advance its donors’ agenda through dozens of “front” groups and “astroturf” initiatives. The Arabella network of funds
is also growing rapidly
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14(a) from 2013 to 2017, the network’s revenues grew by an incredible 392 percent.4 Arabella’s network often plays host to highly influential groups on the Left. For example, the Democracy Alliance, a network of donors co-founded by billionaire George #Soros,

14(b) has used the New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund to host at least eight projects that don’t disclose their original funders. While financial information for the 2018 election year has not been disclosed, the Arabella network will keep showing steep revenue growth.

15. The mainstream media rarely mention any part of the Arabella empire, but in 2018 a Politico report on the Sixteen Thirty Fund—which is exempt under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code—described that portion of the empire as a “liberal secret-money network”

15(a) in which nonprofit groups spend millions of dollars to shape elections and policy “even while criticizing ‘dark money’ and its effects on politics. . . . They have aired 6,885 broadcast TV ads [during the 2018 election campaign], according to Advertising Analytics,

15(b) a TV tracking firm—more than the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and almost as many as [the Koch-supported] Americans for Prosperity, two of the five biggest nonprofit political advertisers focused on the House and Senate in the first half of this year.”

15(c) Despite the vast scope of Arabella’s influence, its “dark money” network goes largely ignored by media outlets. In the last year, mainstream outlets published 47 stories about Arabella Advisors or its four funding vehicles—

15(d) most mentioning the network only in passing. In contrast, the Koch network appeared 189 times in the same outlets, and the coverage included much more thorough reporting than anything written on Arabella.

16. Revenues of the nonprofit entities managed by
Arabella Advisors: New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund. These organizations collected a combined $1.6 billion in revenue from 2013-2017. Between 2016 and 2017, revenues jumped 41 percent.

17. The Arabella Advisors network includes over 340
different entities/projects. The chart below lists some of the most prominent projects executed by Arabella’s four Funds.
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18. Revenues of the nonprofit entities managed by Arabella Advisors: New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty
Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund. These organizations collected a combined $1.6 billion in revenue from 2013-2017. Between 2016 and 2017, revenues jumped 41 percent.

19. Expenses of the nonprofit entities managed by Arabella Advisors. These organizations spent a combined $1.16 billion from 2013-2017. Between 2016 and 2017, spending jumped 39 percent.
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20. Defining “Dark Money:
So what is “dark money”? As the left-leaning Center for Responsive Politics (best known for its website OpenSecrets.org) told CRC over email, “‘dark money’ in politics can be broadly defined as spending from undisclosed sources

20(a) to influence political outcomes.”
While the term “dark money” is often tossed around
indiscriminately by journalists, it’s most often applied to 501(c)(4) nonprofits, which aren’t required by IRS rules to disclose their donors,

20(b) though the term can also extend to the 501(c)(3) nonprofits they’re closely aligned with, since the groups often share staff, office space, and projects, and even make donations to one another.

21. While Arabella Advisors doesn’t completely hide its connection to its four Funds (which would be illegal), the firm is curiously hesitant to explain just how “deep” their partnerships with the Funds run.
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21(a) Littering the front groups’ websites are myriad descriptions of the supposedly “independent” Funds managed under an “administrative agreement” with Arabella Advisors.
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22 The “Pop-Up” Model of operations:
Each of New Venture Fund’s sister nonprofits specializes in a different set of issue areas. For example, the $130.6 million Hopewell Fund—which generally supports social liberal groups
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22(a) —was launched in 2015 with $8.4 million in startup capital from the left-leaning Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation; it hosts groups like the pro-abortion Equity Forward. Similarly, the Windward Fund focuses on environmentalist causes, thanks to funding

22(b) that includes multi-million dollar grants from the Rockefeller, Kellogg, and Walton (of Wal-Mart fame) Foundations.But the real stars of the Arabella network are the New Venture Fund and the Sixteen Thirty Fund.

22(c) The pair regularly work hand-in-hand to maximize the effectiveness of their “pop-up” campaigns. This tends to take the form of a New Venture-sponsored fundraising arm and a Sixteen Thirty-sponsored advocacy and lobbying arm.

22(d) Under this model, these “pop-up” projects take full advantage of the two Fund’s different tax statuses. The fundraising arm, for instance, offers donors tax-deductibility on their donations,

22(e) thanks to the New Venture Fund’s 501(c)(3) designation, and that same status also makes it easier for multi-billion-dollar foundations to contribute, while hiding what particular project they’re supporting.

22(f) The advocacy arm, on the other hand, is allowed far greater lobbying limits by the IRS under the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s 501(c)(4) designation.

23. Fiscal Sponsorship: Incubation vs. “Pop-Up” Groups
Traditionally, a principal form of nonprofit fiscal sponsorship is “incubation,” in which an established nonprofit houses a fledgling project—managing its activities, tracking and accepting its donations, etc.

23(a) while the new group awaits its nonprofit determination letter and tax-exemption from the IRS. In exchange, the sponsoring nonprofit is generally paid a fee for administering the start-up group.

23(b) The incubated group is treated as a “project” or “program” of the fiscal sponsor until it is spun off as an independent nonprofit, tax-exempt organization holding its own favorable determination letter from the IRS.

24. There’s nothing nefarious about fiscal sponsorship in and of itself. As the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors puts it, the process “has evolved as an effective and efficient mode of starting new onprofits, seeding social movements, and delivering public services.”

25. But Arabella Advisors offers a unique take on fiscal sponsorship: creating websites designed to fool the casual viewer into thinking they’re standalone activist groups. As noted, many of these websites give the impression of depth when in fact they’re more like masks

25(a) sophisticated websites made to cast the illusion that they’re more than just a small digital space owned by a much larger entity, yet often powerful enough to win political battles. Because websites can disappear as quickly as they go live,

25(b) there’s a certain ephemerality to Arabella’s pop-up groups. That’s a huge advantage to Arabella’s clients in today’s politics, where the news cycle is driven at the speed of a tweet, since their websites can vanish just as quickly as their campaign began.

25(c) Why wait for the wheels of bureaucracy to turn when you can quickly create a website to spread your message? These “pop-up” groups could be described as “Potemkin projects”—

25(d) like the phony mobile villages built for Russian Empress Catherine II to make her 1787 trip to the Crimea feel like home. Arabella’s campaigns pop up out of nowhere and then if it’s politically or financially expedient to do so vanish almost as quickly as they appeared.

26. Because these groups can pop up at the speed it takes to publish a website, they tend to be run as short-term, high intensity media campaigns targeting the news cycle.

27. The Arabella Advisors network includes as
many as 340 different entities/projects as reported
by each organization’s Form 990. CRC has identified
as many as 65 of those shadowy projects.

28. Hiding the Donors:
Obfuscation is a key advantage Arabella’s clients enjoy by using this model. IRS rules do not require 501(c)(4) nonprofits to report their donors to anyone, and the same rules don’t require 501(c)(3) nonprofits to publicly disclose their donors’ names

28(a) (only the largest individual donations). And Arabella Advisors, as a for-profit company, is not required to disclose its client list, much less the work it performs or the ads it buys for its clients.

28(b) This makes it virtually impossible to identify which donor or donors paid an Arabella Advisors Fund to run a pop-up group, or exactly how much they paid for it. Pop-up groups themselves provide veils for Arabella Advisors.

28(c) Many of the pop-up groups hosted by the Funds (such as that of Demand Justice) do not identify themselves as a project of an Arabella-run nonprofit, and few users are likely to dig past the surface to find out whether a group soliciting donations is registered with the IRS

28(d) under the name displayed on its website. Between 2013 - 2017, this network took in $1.6 billion to advance the political policies for wealthy left-wing interests through hundreds of “pop-up” groups: websites designed to look like full-fledged “grassroots” organizations.

To be continued....................................
Part2 - a. Arabella Advisors in action and who all are the big bankrollers who fuel this rollercoaster of left
b. How Donald Trump was dislodged using spider web of Arabella Advisors dark money.