Karl Frisch Associates (KFA) was a for-profit consulting firm owned and operated by left-of-center activist and Democratic operative Karl Frisch that existed from 2014 to 2015. [1] KFA’s clients included the New Venture Fund (NVF), the largest nonprofit managed by the left-of-center “dark money” consulting company Arabella Advisors. [2] [3]
Frisch is a longtime Democratic Party operative with experience working at left-of-center organizations such as Allied Progress, Media Matters, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). [4] [5] [6] [7]
History
Karl Frisch founded Karl Frisch Associates in the summer of 2014 after working as a partner at Bullfight Strategies, a left-of-center[8] communications firm founded by Eric Burns, the former president of left-of-center Media Matters for America. [9][10][11][12][13]
KFA took on the left-of-center “dark money” organization New Venture Fund (NVF), the largest nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, as a client shortly after its founding. [14] Frisch’s relationship developed with NVF in this period “set the stage” for Frisch to found the left-of-center Allied Progress (also a project of the New Venture Fund) in August 2015. [15] [16]
KFA’s most recent public records with the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs are from 2015. [17] KFA’s business license expired on July 1, 2016. [18] [19] During its one year of operations, KFA reportedly had 20 employees with an annual revenue of $3,000,000. [20]
Leadership
Karl Frisch was the founder of KFA, where he worked as a principal from July 2014 to August 2015. [21] He currently sits on the Fairfax County School Board in Fairfax County, Virginia. [22]
Frisch has many associations with left-of-center nonprofits and the Democratic Party. Frisch was co-chair of President Joe Biden’s Virginia LGBTQ+ Leadership Council during the 2020 presidential campaign; founded of the left-of-center Allied Progress;[23] worked as communications director and senior fellow with Media Matters[24] and as national press secretary for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC);[25] [26] and was named in a plan for the development of a communications hub to support the left-of-center Wyss Foundation. [27]