Arizonans For Responsible Government is nominally a left-of-center advocacy group. It is a registered trade name of the Hopewell Fund, a nonprofit controlled by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors. ¹

Founding and History

As of March 2020, there exists no public information about Arizonans for Responsible Government outside of its listing as a trade name of the Hopewell Fund on the group’s publicly available 2018 tax filings. ²

Arizonans for Responsible Government is likely another instance of what the Hopewell Fund’s critics call “pop-up’s,” or websites that are created to give the appearance of a standalone, localized nonprofit; in actuality, the websites and nonprofits fall beneath the Fund’s umbrella, the recipients of Arabella Advisors’ so-called “dark money.” ³

This is done to make it seem as if the Hopewell Fund’s left-of-center policies have broad, local support, when it is really centralized direction from the Arabella Advisors network itself. ⁴

1. Hopewell Fund, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2018, Schedule O https://www.scribd.com/document/436821860/Hopewell-Fund-s-2018-tax-forms.
2. Hopewell Fund, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2018, Schedule O. https://www.scribd.com/document/436821860/Hopewell-Fund-s-2018-tax-forms.
3. Hayden Ludwig. “Big Money in Dark Shadows: Arabella Advisors’ Half-billion-dollar ‘Dark Money’ Network.” Capital Research Center. Published April 2019. Accessed July 31, 2019. https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/CRC_Arabella-Advisors-Dark-Money.pdf
4. Hayden Ludwig. “Big Money in Dark Shadows: Arabella Advisors’ Half-billion-dollar ‘Dark Money’ Network.” Capital Research Center. Published April 2019. Accessed July 31, 2019. https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/CRC_Arabella-Advisors-Dark-Money.pdf