The Sixteen Thirty Fund (sometimes styled “1630 Fund”) is a left-of-center lobbying and advocacy organization founded in 2008. ^[1] Sixteen Thirty Fund often operates alongside its charitable “sister” nonprofit New Venture Fund, which provides similar funding and fiscal sponsorship services to center-left organizations. Both groups, along with the Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund, are administered by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm that caters to left-leaning clients.

According to its founding documents, the Sixteen Thirty Fund was created with seed funding from Americans United for Change (AUFC), ACORN, USAction, the Sierra Club, and Working America. ^[2]

Both Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund have been criticized as “dark money” organizations by left-leaning news outlets, including the New York Times, for serving as a way for left-wing groups to anonymously funnel money toward various advocacy issues, such as attacking vulnerable Republicans or pushing state-level environmental restrictions. ^{[3] [4]}

In April 2021, the New York Times criticized Arabella’s “system of political financing, which often obscures the identities of donors,” as “dark money,” calling the network “a leading vehicle for it on the Left.” ^[5] In May 2021, the New York Times identified Sixteen Thirty Fund as one of the “leading dark money spenders on the Left” for quietly supporting Democrats with more than $63 million in super PAC donations that hurt Republicans in the 2020 election, as well for “help[ing] create and fund dozens of groups, including some that worked to block Mr. Trump’s nominees and push progressive appointments by Mr. Biden.” ^[6]

The Atlantic, a left-leaning magazine, has called the Sixteen Thirty Fund “the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money” which funneled “roughly $61 million of effectively untraceable money to progressive causes,” making it the “second-largest super-PAC donor in 2020.” Of Arabella Advisors, the Atlantic noted that the “mothership” company runs a “massive progressive dark-money group you’ve never heard of.” It added: “Democrats have quietly pulled ahead of Republicans in untraceable political spending. One group helped make it happen.” ^[7]

Left-leaning Politico has called the Sixteen Thirty Fund a “massive ‘dark money’ network” responsible for “boost[ing] Democrats” in the 2018 midterm elections, a “liberal dark-money behemoth,” a “secretly funded nonprofit,” and “one of the Left’s financial hubs” responsible for “attacking Republican senators” in 2019. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

The Sixteen Thirty Fund has also been characterized as one of the “key groups founded to resist Trump” by the left-leaning Atlantic. ^[11] Politico noted in late 2021 that the Sixteen Thirty Fund “exploded in size during the Trump administration,” doling out “a whopping $410 million in 2020” and “aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate” for Democrats. ^[12]

In its 2018 Form 990, New Venture Fund shows a $26.7 million grant to the Sixteen Thirty Fund for “capacity building.” ^[13] Sixteen Thirty Fund’s Form 990 of the same year, also shows zero employees, and notes in Schedule O that “New Venture Fund (NVF) is the paymaster for Sixteen Thirty Fund payroll. NVF pays the salary and immediately invoices Sixteen Thirty Fund, which reimburses the full amount.” ^[14]

Arabella and its nonprofit network have been criticized as “dark money” funders both for channeling hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing organizations and for hosting hundreds of “pop-up groups”—websites designed to look like standalone nonprofits that are really projects of an Arabella-run nonprofit. ^[15]

In November 2019, Politico criticized the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the 501(c)(4) advocacy wing of Arabella’s nonprofit network, as a “little-known,” “massive ‘dark money’ group [that] boosted Democrats” in the 2018 midterm elections with $140 million. “The money contributed to efforts ranging from fighting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other Trump judicial nominees to boosting ballot measures raising the minimum wage and changing laws on voting and redistricting in numerous states,” the left-leaning website reported. Politico also noted that Sixteen Thirty Fund’s biggest single donation (made anonymously) was for $51.7 million, “more than the group had ever raised before in an entire year before President Donald Trump was elected,” adding that “the group’s 2018 fundraising surpassed any amount ever raised by a left-leaning political nonprofit.” ^[16]

The left-leaning Washington Post further criticized Arabella’s Sixteen Thirty Fund as a “big campaign donor” in a November 21, 2019 opinion by the editorial board, which called on Congress to change nonprofit disclosure laws, noting in particular a $26.7 million anonymous donation to the Fund. ^[17] However, the Post also failed to connect the Sixteen Thirty Fund to Arabella Advisors and its other three nonprofits.

In a November 24, 2019 letter to the editor published by the Washington Post, Capital Research Center president Scott Walter identified the $26.7 million donation as originating with the New Venture Fund, the largest of Arabella’s in-house nonprofits, and confirmed Politico’s suspicion that the Sixteen Thirty Fund is “part of a larger network of dark money.” ^[18]

Seed Capital from the Left

The Sixteen Thirty Fund is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. According to its original filings with the IRS (archived here), the group received $350,745 in seed capital in 2009 from five left-wing organizations, including the scandal-ridden ACORN, which collapsed in 2010. ^[19]

• Americans United for Change (AUFC): $221,745
• ACORN: $25,000
• USAction: $22,000
• Sierra Club: $10,000
• Working America: $72,000

Americans United for Change (AUFC) has been characterized as a “dark money group” by the left-leaning Sunlight Foundation for its support of left-wingcauses and Democratic Party candidates. The group is headed by Brad Woodhouse, a controversial Democratic operative who also runs Protect Our Care, a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund. ^[20] AUFC is heavily funded by labor unions, including the AFL-CIO and AFSCME. ^[21]

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is a now-defunct community organizing network that once had hundreds of affiliates nationwide. The group, which provided voter registration and mobilization efforts for left-wing causes beginning in the 1970s, disbanded in 2010 after declaring bankruptcy following a loss of federal funding. ^[22]

USAction was a center-left advocacy nonprofit created by activist Heather Booth in 1999 as a successor to the scandal-ridden consumer advocacy group Citizen Action, founded by Ralph Nader in the 1970s. USAction was a key player in the creation of Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a major coalition of center-left groups formed in 2007 to help pass the Democratic Party’s healthcare overhaul bill (which later became Obamacare). ^[23] HCAN was later revived as a joint project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund, which manages the HCAN Education Fund. ^[24] In 2016, USAction merged with a number of other left-wing groups to form People’s Action.

The Sierra Club is one of the oldest and most powerful environmentalist organizations in the country, known for funding many activist groups on the Left.

Working America is a center-left labor union characterized as the “community affiliate” of the AFL-CIO. The group was formed in 2003 and claims more than 3 million members, many of whom it encourages to canvass neighborhoods during elections in order to support left-wing and Democratic Party political candidates. ^[25]

Low-Profile Funding Activities

The Sixteen Thirty Fund keeps a low profile compared with comparable nonprofit organizations. The organization boasts a one-page website, no Facebook page and no Twitter account. The fund has received little news coverage in the past few years. What little press coverage to be found centered on the 2013 effort to recall Democratic sate legislators in Colorado over their votes on a controversial gun-control measure.

That year, Sixteen Thirty Fund donated $35,000 to a Colorado group founded to defended Democratic state Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) from a recall effort over her votes for more gun control in the state. ^[26] Giron lost the effort after only 44 percent voted to retain her. ^[27] During the same recall effort, Sixteen Thirty Fund donated another $35,000 to a group supporting Colorado state Sen. John Morse (D-Colorado Springs), who also supported stricter gun control. ^[28] Morse also lost the recall vote when 51 percent voted to oust him. ^[29]

In 2017, the Washington Free Beacon tied the Sixteen Thirty Fund to progressive efforts to hide big money fueling criticism of President Donald Trump’s nominees to several Cabinet-level posts. Targeted nominees included businessman Andy Puzder (who would later withdraw as nominee for Secretary of Labor) and Steven Mnuchin (later confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury). ^[30]

Another publication, Tax Analysts, noticed Sixteen Thirty Fund’s financial support for “Tax March” rallies planned to protest President Trump’s unwillingness to release his tax returns. It is unclear how much Sixteen Thirty Fund contributed to the march. ^[31]

“Dark Money” Funder

The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that isn’t required by the IRS to disclose its donors, has been criticized by groups on the political Left and Right as a “dark money” funder.

Politico, a left-leaning website, notes that Sixteen Thirty’s “massive 2020 fundraising and spending illustrates the extent to which the Left embraced the use of ‘dark money’ to fight for its causes in recent years”: ^[32]

After decrying big-money Republican donors over the last decade, as well as the Supreme Court rulings that flooded politics with more cash, Democrats now benefit from hundreds of millions of dollars of undisclosed donations as well.

In its 2018 profile of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, Politico noted that the group spent “$141 million on more than 100 left-leaning causes during the [2018] midterm election”: ^[33]

Sixteen Thirty Fund played a role in the battle for the House of Representatives in 2018, a crucial contest for Democrats trying to seize back power after Trump’s rise. The election featured dozens of Democratic candidates who decried the influence of money in politics on the campaign trail.

And in 2020 Politico attributed Sixteen Thirty’s enormous spending to “Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate.” ^[34]

In 2015, the Fund provided millions in grants to 29 different organizations. That year, Sixteen Thirty Fund’s largest grant—exceeding $1.9 million—went to the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the “educational” arm of the League of Conservation Voters, an organization activating and rallying environmentalists to political activism. ^[35]

Amy Kurtz, Sixteen Thirty Fund’s president, has called the organization’s “dark money” spending “just playing by the rules.” ^[36]

Ballot Initiatives

On September 4, 2018, the Missouri-based Kansas City Star reported a $3 million donation from Sixteen Thirty Fund to Raise Up Missouri, a left-wing PAC seeking to raise the state’s minimum wage to $12 per hour through a 2018 ballot initiative. Sixteen Thirty Fund also reportedly gave $500,000 to the PAC in 2017, and an additional $500,000 to it in May 2018. ^[37]

2018 Midterm Election

The Sixteen Thirty Fund spent approximately $740,000 in independent expenditures and electioneering communications during the 2018 midterm election.^[38]

Sixteen Thirty Fund: 2018 Midterm Outside Spending
Sixteen Thirty Fund Project	Amount	Expenditure Type
Demand Justice	$317,696	Electioneering Communications
Floridians for a Fair Shake	$286,113	Electioneering Communications
Floridians for a Fair Shake	$7,537	Independent Expenditure
SoCal Healthcare Coalition	$120,149	Electioneering Communications
SoCal Healthcare Coalition	$5,875	Independent Expenditure
Ohioans for Economic Opportunity	$2,721	Independent Expenditure
Sum:	$740,091

Lobbying for H.R. 1 (2019-2020)

In November 2019, the Sixteen Thirty Fund hired lobbyists Dana Singiser of Keefe Strategies and former chief of staff to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) Maura Keefe to lobby in favor of H.R. 1, an anti-dark money campaign finance and ethics reform bill (named the “For the People Act 2019”) that passed the House in March, 2019. ^[39] The bill aims to expand access to voting, create stronger ethics rules for public servants, and combat the influence of money in politics. ^[40]

In September 2020, Sixteen Thirty Fund executive director Amy Kurtz explained to NBC News that her organization lobbied for H.R. 1: ^[41]

We support and have lobbied in favor of reform to the current campaign finance system (through H.R. 1), but we are equally committed to following the current laws to level the playing field for progressives in this election.

2020 Presidential Election

Politico attributes Sixteen Thirty’s enormous spending in the 2020 election to successful “Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate.” That includes a $10 million grant to the NeverTrump group Defending Democracy Together (DDT), founded by former Republican commentator Bill Kristol. ^[42]

The New York Times reported in July 2020 that the Sixteen Thirty Fund had donated $5.7 million to the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, which had paid for multiple advertisements critical of President Trump in key battleground states. ^[43]

The Sixteen Thirty Fund spent $4.3 million in electioneering communications (political ads) in the 2020 election: ^[44]

Sixteen Thirty Fund: 2020 Election Outside Spending
Sixteen Thirty Fund Project	Amount	Expenditure Type
Demand Justice	$3,732,553	Electioneering Communications
Health Care Voter	$425,000	Electioneering Communications
Democracy for All 2021	$105,372	Electioneering Communications
Protect Our Care	$84,748	Electioneering Communications
Total:	$4,347,673

According to its Form 990 filing (archived here), the Sixteen Thirty Fund spent $13,240,753 on political campaign activities in 2019. ^[45] That included grants to Democratic-supported PACs:

• Change Now Inc.: $25,000
• Forward Majority Action: $290,000
• Future Forward USA PAC: $1,415,274
• House Majority PAC: $500,000
• League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund: $6,787,500
• Real Justice PAC: $100,000
• National Democratic County Officials: $50,000
• Senate Majority Project: $100,000

In the 2019-2020 election cycle, the Sixteen Thirty Fund donated $43.5 million to PACs and super PACs aligned with Democrats: ^[46]

Recipient PAC	Year	Contribution
Victory 2020	2020	$5,700,000
Change Now	2020	$3,500,000
Unite the Country	2020	$3,500,000
Priorities USA Action	2020	$3,500,000
Take Back 2020	2020	$3,150,000
NextGen Climate Action Committee	2020	$2,500,000
Black PAC	2020	$2,250,000
AB (American Bridge) PAC	2020	$2,200,000
AB (American Bridge) PAC	2020	$2,000,000
Victory 2020	2020	$2,000,000
PACRONYM	2020	$2,000,000
Forward Majority Action	2020	$1,500,000
Change Now	2020	$1,500,000
Future Forward USA PAC	2020	$1,500,000
Future Forward USA PAC	2020	$1,415,274
NextGen Climate Action Committee	2020	$1,200,000
Future Forward USA PAC	2020	$1,000,000
House Majority PAC	2019	$500,000
Sunrise PAC	2020	$500,000
Change Now	2020	$400,000
The Lincoln Project	2020	$300,000
Forward Majority Action	2020	$250,000
Forward Majority Action	2019	$250,000
Family Friendly Action PAC	2020	$110,000
People's Action Power	2020	$100,000
Real Justice PAC	2019	$100,000
Change Now	2020	$100,000
Unite the Country	2020	$100,000
Family Friendly Action PAC	2020	$50,000
National Democratic County Officials	2019	$50,000
Montana Hunters and Anglers Leadership Fund	2020	$50,000
Working Families Party (WFP) Independent Expenditure Committee	2020	$50,000
Change Now	2020	$47,003
Forward Majority Action	2020	$30,000
Change Now	2019	$25,000
Change Now	2020	$19,402
Change Now	2020	$12,089
Change Now	2020	$1,184
Change Now	2019	$655
Change Now	2019	$230
Change Now	2019	$21
Change Now	2019	$20
Change Now	2020	$20
Change Now	2019	$20
Change Now	2020	$19
Change Now	2019	$19
Change Now	2020	$19
Change Now	2019	$19
Change Now	2020	$19
Change Now	2019	$19
Change Now	2019	$18
Change Now	2019	$18
Change Now	2019	$17
Change Now	2019	$17
Change Now	2020	$17
Change Now	2019	$17
Grand Total:		$43,461,136

Major recipients of Sixteen Thirty Fund contributions include Victory 2020, a Democrat-aligned PAC (created to support American Bridge 21st Century and Unite the Country) whose total revenues (as of September 2020) were $5.9 million, $5.7 million of which came from Sixteen Thirty Fund; Unite the Country, a super PAC created in 2019 to help 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden; American Bridge 21st Century, which creates political advertisements attacking Republicans; House Majority PAC, a PAC that helps Democratic politicians running for the House of Representatives; and PACRONYM, a PAC responsible for numerous anti-Republican political advertisements and aligned with the advocacy organization ACRONYM. ^[47]

Sixteen Thirty donated $1.5 million in July 2020 to Future Forward PAC (FF PAC), which the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets) describes as a “pro-Biden super PAC” that funded its “$100 million ad campaign with ‘dark money.'” FF PAC targeted Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida on President Trump’s COVID-19 policies. ^[48]

Sixteen Thirty also donated $300,000 in August 2020 to the Lincoln Project, a “NeverTrump” PAC of former Republican political operatives that attacked Republicans in the 2020 election. Sixteen Thirty was the Lincoln Project’s third-largest donor and its single largest organizational donor. ^[49]

2020 State Spending

In 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund spent close to $44 million in grants to politically active, left-of-center state-based groups: ^[50]

Sixteen Thirty Fund: 2020 State Spending	Total
North Carolina	$9,514,000
Colorado	$6,961,439
Arizona	$3,610,000
Pennsylvania	$3,251,750
Georgia	$3,094,000
Maine	$2,106,000
Michigan	$2,033,250
Florida	$1,795,500
Minnesota	$1,762,000
New Hampshire	$1,478,000
Iowa	$1,335,000
Nebraska	$1,085,000
New York	$750,000
Ohio	$715,000
Louisiana	$700,000
New Mexico	$595,000
Alaska	$420,000
California	$365,000
Massachussetts	$350,489
Montana	$350,000
Virginia	$345,800
Kansas	$300,000
Missouri	$225,000
Nevada	$165,000
Texas	$125,000
Wisconsin	$115,000
Connecticut	$60,000
New Jersey	$50,000
Maryland	$24,500
Grand Total:	$43,681,728

Project Activism in the 2020 Election

A number of Sixteen Thirty Fund projects were involved in aiding Democrats and hurting Republicans in the 2020 election.

Family Friendly Michigan ran multiple Facebook advertisements targeting Republican Senate candidate John James (MI) under the disclaimer “Family Friendly Action PAC.” However, Family Friendly Michigan’s other Facebook advertisements identify the group as part of the Sixteen Thirty Fund. ^[51]

Fix Our Senate

On June 3, 2021, Fix Our Senate along with over 100 other left-of-center activist groups sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with a renewed call to end the filibuster on investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. ^[52] Fix Our Senate is an affiliate of the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The letter stated that:

The Republicans could not even support a bipartisan investigation into a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol reflects dangerously misplaced priorities: they have chosen party over country, obstruction over progress, and Trump over democracy. In the face of Republicans’ inability and unwillingness to defend our democracy, it is clearer than ever that the filibuster needs to be eliminated. ^[53]

The letter also referenced the GOP’s attempts to block the For the People Act, which is designed to expand vote-by-mail and establish an “alternative campaign funding system” for certain federal offices. ^[54] [55]

Facebook Ads

In 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund ran at least 250 advertisements on Facebook under a number of its projects. Because Facebook’s Ad Library only offers a range of cost per advertisement, a minimum and maximum total for each ad is provided below: ^[56]

Sixteen Thirty Fund Project: 2020	Month	Amount Min	Amount Max	Issue
Democracy for All 2021 Action	August	$300	$399	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	August	$0	$100	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	July/August	$400	$499	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	July	$800	$899	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	August	$0	$100	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	August	$0	$100	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	July	$800	$899	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	July/August	$0	$100	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	July/August	$400	$499	HEROES ACT
Democracy for All 2021 Action	July	$800	$899	HEROES ACT
Family Friendly Michigan*	March	$1,500	$2,000	Covid Relief	*Removed for violating ad policy
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	May	$400	$499	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	July-September	$100	$199	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	March	$0	$100	Covid Relief	*Removed for violating ad policy
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$800	$899	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$2,500	$3,000	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	May	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	May	$600	$699	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*		$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	July-September	$3,000	$3,500	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	June/July	$300	$399	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$100	$199	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	March	$4,500	$5,000	Covid Relief	*Removed for violating ad policy
Family Friendly Michigan*	March	$4,000	$4,500	Covid Relief	*Removed for violating ad policy
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Michigan*	August/September	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	February	$4,000	$4,500	Paid Leave
Family Friendly Wisconsin*		$100	$199	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$3,500	$4,000	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$0	$100	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*		$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*		$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	July/August	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	July/August	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	July/August	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	February/March	$6,000	$7,000	Child care
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*		$400	$499	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$4,000	$4,500	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Healthcare
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$100	$199	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	July/August	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$100	$199	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	July/August	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	May	$400	$499	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	February/March	$3,500	$4,000	Social Security
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	May	$400	$499	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$100	$199	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$200	$299	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	February/March	$900	$999	Healthcare
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	February	$0	$100	Healthcare
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$1,500	$2,000	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$0	$100	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	July/August	$200	$299	Org. Ad
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	March	$0	$100	Covid Relief
Family Friendly Wisconsin*	January	$100	$199	Org. Ad
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$700	$799	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$600	$699	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$400	$499	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$300	$399	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$0	$100	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$400	$499	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	May	$800	$899	Trump Covid Response
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$300	$399	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$900	$999	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$900	$999	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$400	$499	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$500	$599	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$300	$399	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$500	$599	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$4,000	$4,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$500	$599	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	January/February	$3,000	$3,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$3,500	$4,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$300	$399	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$600	$699	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	January	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$700	$799	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
I Like Obamacare*	March/April	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
I Like Obamacare*	March	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
Obamacare*	June	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Obamacare*	June/July	$900	$999	Health Care Under Trump	*Same ad as Protect our Care
Protect Our Care	July/August	$900	$999	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	June/July	$1,000	$1,500	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	August	$200	$299	Health Care
Protect Our Care	May	$100	$199	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July/August	$1,500	$2,000	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	June/July	$500	$599	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July/August	$300	$399	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July/August	$700	$799	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	June/July	$1,000	$1,500	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July/August	$500	$599	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	August	$100	$199	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$700	$799	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July/August	$900	$999	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	August	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	August/September	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$2,500	$3,000	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$500	$599	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	October	$200	$299	ACB Nomination
Protect Our Care	August	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	August	$1,000	$1,500	Health Care
Protect Our Care	August/September	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$3,000	$3,500	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	March	$5,000	$6,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	February	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare Under Trump
Protect Our Care	March	$900	$999	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August	$500	$599	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	June	$500	$599	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	May	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	August	$1,000	$1,500	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January/February	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	July/August	$700	$799	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July-September	$1,500	$2,000	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July	$200	$299	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January/February	$3,000	$3,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	May	$100	$199	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$300	$399	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	July	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July-September	$600	$699	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July/August	$200	$299	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	January/February	$3,500	$4,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	July/August	$1,000	$1,500	Health Care
Protect Our Care	June/July	$1,000	$1,500	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	August	$200	$299	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	July/August	$200	$299	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	October	$200	$299	ACB Nomination
Protect Our Care	January/February	$1,500	$2,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August	$100	$199	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January/February	$3,000	$3,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	October	$200	$299	ACB Nomination
Protect Our Care	May	$500	$599	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	July/August	$1,000	$1,500	Health Care
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	July/August	$1,500	$2,000	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	January	$1,000	$1,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January/February	$3,500	$4,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August/September	$500	$599	Sen. Gardner Fact Check
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August	$0	$100	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August/September	$200	$299	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	October	$200	$299	ACB Nomination
Protect Our Care	January	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January/February	$3,500	$4,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August	$600	$699	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	August	$100	$199	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	September	$500	$599	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	June/July	$1,000	$1,500	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,500	$3,000	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	January/February	$3,000	$3,500	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	August	$100	$199	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July/August	$300	$399	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	May	$0	$100	Healthcare
Protect Our Care	July/August	$300	$399	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	September	$600	$699	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	October	$200	$299	ACB Nomination
Protect Our Care	September	$0	$100	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	August	$100	$199	Trump Covid Response
Protect Our Care	July/August	$200	$299	Health Care Under Trump
Protect Our Care	January/February	$2,000	$2,500	Healthcare
Total:		$176,400	$234,111

Local Election Intervention

In May 2021, it was revealed that the Sixteen Thirty Fund had funneled $35,000 into a group supporting Democratic Anchorage mayoral candidate Forrest Dunbar. The funding came to light following an FEC complaint filed by Americans for Public Trust, a right-leaning watchdog group. ^{[57] [58]}

“Fake” Groups

Known Sixteen Thirty Fund Projects

• Abortion Access Force (Lady Parts Justice)
• Accountable.US Action
• All Above All Action Fund (AAAAF)
• Allied Progress Action
• Americans for Affordable Birth Control Action Fund
• Arizonans United for Health Care
• Black Civic Engagement Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)
• Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform
• Civic Action Fund
• Colorado United for Families
• Constitutional Responsibility Project
• Defend American Democracy
• Demand Justice
• Democracy for All 2021 Action
• Climate Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)
• Democracy Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)
• Equity Forward Action (Equity Fwd Action)
• Evergreen Action
• Family Friendly Michigan
• Fighting Chance for Families Action
• Floridians for a Fair Shake
• For Our Families
• Groundwork Action
• Health Care Facts
• Health Care FAQs
• Health Care Voter
• Health Care Voters of Nevada
• Health Care for America Now (HCAN)
• The Hub Project
• Inclusive Economy Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)
• Justice March
• Kansans for Secure Elections
• Keep Iowa Healthy
• Latino Engagement Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)
• Lower Drug Prices Now
• Mainers Against Health Care Cuts
• Make It Work Action
• March for America
• Media Democracy Action Fund
• Michigan Families for Economic Prosperity
• Michigan Families for Opportunity
• Navigator Research
• New American Majority Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)
• New Jersey for a Better Future
• North Carolinians for a Fair Economy
• Not One Penny
• Ohio Committee for Safe and Secure Elections
• Ohioans for Economic Opportunity
• Our Lives on the Line
• Patients Over Pharma Action
• PA Progress
• Protect Our Care
• Protect PA Voters
• Protect The Investigation
• Respect Workers, Respect Voters
• Restore Trust Action
• Secure Michigan Elections
• Small Businesses for America’s Future
• SoCal Healthcare Coalition
• Speak Out Central New York
• State Engagement Initiative (Democracy Alliance)
• Stop Deficit Squawks
• Stop Payday Predators
• Survey America Project
• Tax March
• Tax Plan Answers
• The Love Vote
• Western Values Project Action
• Youth Engagement Action Fund (Democracy Alliance)

Controversies

“Dark Money” Criticism from the Left and Right

Arabella and its nonprofit network have been criticized as “dark money” funders both for channeling hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing organizations and for hosting hundreds of “pop-up groups”—websites designed to look like standalone nonprofits that are really projects of an Arabella-run nonprofit. ^[59]

In April 2021, the New York Times criticized Arabella’s “system of political financing, which often obscures the identities of donors,” as “dark money,” calling the network “a leading vehicle for it on the Left.” ^[60] In May 2021, the New York Times identified Sixteen Thirty Fund as one of the “leading dark money spenders on the Left” for quietly supporting Democrats with more than $63 million in super PAC donations that hurt Republicans in the 2020 election, as well for “help[ing] create and fund dozens of groups, including some that worked to block Mr. Trump’s nominees and push progressive appointments by Mr. Biden.” ^[61]

Robert Maguire, research director for the far-left Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said of Sixteen Thirty Fund in 2021: ^[62]

“Altogether this is absolutely one of the largest fundraising machines I have ever come across . . . I am really struggling to think of any other group, especially recently, that could rival it,” he added, comparing the amount of money flowing through Sixteen Thirty Fund to the Koch brothers’ network at the height of its influence earlier this decade.

In November 2019, Politico criticized the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the 501(c)(4) advocacy wing of Arabella’s nonprofit network, as a “little-known,” “massive ‘dark money’ group [that] boosted Democrats” in the 2018 midterm elections with $140 million. “The money contributed to efforts ranging from fighting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other Trump judicial nominees to boosting ballot measures raising the minimum wage and changing laws on voting and redistricting in numerous states,” the left-leaning website reported. Politico also noted that Sixteen Thirty Fund’s biggest single donation (made anonymously) was for $51.7 million, “more than the group had ever raised before in an entire year before President Donald Trump was elected,” adding that “the group’s 2018 fundraising surpassed any amount ever raised by a left-leaning political nonprofit.” ^[63] However, Politico failed to tie the Sixteen Thirty Fund to Arabella Advisors’ nonprofit network.

The left-leaning Washington Post further criticized Arabella’s Sixteen Thirty Fund as a “big campaign donor” in a November 21, 2019 opinion by the editorial board, which called on Congress to change nonprofit disclosure laws, noting in particular a $26.7 million anonymous donation to the Fund. ^[64] However, the Post also failed to connect the Sixteen Thirty Fund to Arabella Advisors and its other three nonprofits.

In a November 24, 2019 letter to the editor published by the Washington Post, Capital Research Center president Scott Walter identified the $26.7 million donation as originating with the New Venture Fund, the largest of Arabella’s in-house nonprofits, and confirmed Politico’s suspicion that the Sixteen Thirty Fund is “part of a larger network of dark money.” ^[65]

In November 2020 Politico called the Sixteen Thirty Fund a “liberal dark-money behemoth” and “one of the Left’s biggest financial hubs” for raising $137 million in 2019, much of which was spent on an “eight-figure ad campaign attacking Republican senators.” Politico also noted that “more than half of the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s money came from just three anonymous sources in 2019” and it made grants to over “100 different liberal organizations” that year. ^[66]

The Atlantic: Arabella’s Political Activism Masked as Philanthropy

Arabella’s increasing prominence as the head of a large and influential network of political groups has earned the company attention from both left- and right-leaning media, which respectively praise or criticize Arabella’s political activism as it exists in the guise of “philanthropy.”

InsidePhilanthropy, a left-leaning website that examines trends in charitable giving, praised Arabella Advisors founder Eric Kessler in July 2021 as one of the 100 “most powerful players in philanthropy” for aiding “progressive causes” through his nonprofit network: ^[67]

Since he founded Arabella Advisors in 2005, Kessler has built a complex network of nonprofit funds and pass-through entities that now channel hundreds of millions toward progressive causes annually—giving that soared under Trump.

Arabella Advisors maintains that its nonprofit network primarily serves philanthropic, not political, causes. A November 2021 interview with the Atlantic observed that “Arabella hates [the] narrative” that it controls a set of “innocuous-sounding . . . and promiscuously spawn[ed] mini-organizations” engaged in political causes. In its interview with Arabella CEO Sampriti Ganguli, the Atlantic wrote: ^[68]

The organization’s CEO, Sampriti Ganguli, insisted to me that she runs a relatively small business-services organization that does HR, legal compliance, accounting, etc., for clients such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund. Ganguli comes from a consultant background, and she talks like it: Arabella’s mission is to make philanthropy more efficient, effective, and equitable, she told me.

Of Arabella’s political spending, the Atlantic wrote: ^[69]

Do you feel good that you’re the Left’s equivalent of the Koch brothers?

Ganguli: Yeah.

. . .

[Interviewer]: Okay. You guys have a narrative around you, which associates you with dark-money spending in America. I want to give you a clean opportunity to explain why you think that narrative is wrong.

Ganguli: I’m super surprised at the attention that Arabella Advisors gets. We’re a pretty small professional-services business. We make sure things get done on time, that the checks go where they need to go. We help donors figure out how to maximize their effectiveness. I struggle to fully diagnose the narrative.

What I will say is, on the work of the Sixteen Thirty Fund in particular, the narrative is often spun by a set of actors and agents who benefit equally, if not more, from the same legal structure. One of the reasons we don’t engage in this narrative is that it’s not at all the bulk of what Arabella Advisors does. Whenever organizations are looking to profile the work of philanthropy, we’re super excited to talk about that. But it has been my observation that the slog of day-to-day change doesn’t warrant headlines in a 24/7 media cycle.

[Interviewer]: Look, I take your point. But just to give you insight into the reporter brain: In 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund was the second-largest giver to super PACs in the entire country. The first was One Nation, a right-wing organization. The Sixteen Thirty Fund gave $61 million to super PACs. They’ve scaled up at a speed that is unprecedented. Your organization’s structure has even prompted people on the [R]ight to say, “Hey, I love what you’re doing. I’m going to reorganize in order to mirror you.”

I don’t think it’s that reporters don’t have a taste for covering long, slow, hard work. This political spending is newsworthy. And Arabella shares an address, resources, legal services, HR services, and all kinds of other things with the Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Ganguli: I don’t dispute your wanting to ask the question. I just worry that you’re asking the question to the wrong person.

The Atlantic attributed Arabella’s vast political influence to “the rush of panicked political giving on the Left during the Trump years” but added that “Arabella, as a mission-driven, progressive organization, is caught in a major tension on the [L]eft: How can progressive groups justify using billionaires’ money to influence American politics and civic life while earnestly advocating for a wealth tax or political-spending reforms?” ^[70]

Illegal Election Intervention Complaint (2021)

On May 15, 2021, the right-leaning watchdog Americans for Public Trust (APT) filed a complaint (archived here) with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which oversees political groups’ spending, alleging violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act by Hansjorg Wyss, the Wyss Foundation, the Berger Action Fund, the New Venture Fund (in its capacity as the parent of the Hub Project), and Sixteen Thirty Fund. ^[71] According to APT, “Mr. Wyss indirectly funded federal electoral advocacy through his nonprofit organizations,” failing to set them up as political action committees (PACs), and “the intended recipient of these funds was ultimately a variety of organizations whose primary purpose is to engage in electoral advocacy.”

Organizations which receive contributions in excess of $1,000 or makes contributions in excess of $1,000 in a calendar year is considered a PAC for the major purpose of influencing elections. PACs are subject to strict financial reporting requirements that 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) nonprofits are not. ^[72] The complaint points out that the Wyss Foundation, Berger Action Fund, and New Venture Fund, which are all 501(c) nonprofits, have failed to file a statement of organization with the FEC, despite Wyss contributing at least $56.5 million from the Wyss Foundation to the New Venture Fund and another $135 from the Berger Action Fund to the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The 501(c)(4) Sixteen Thirty Fund spent $30 million influencing the 2018 midterm elections in order to favor Democratic candidates, “thereby triggering classification as a political committee,” according to APT.

U.S. law strictly prohibits foreign nationals from making direct or indirect contributions to political action committees. ^[73] Wyss, who was born in Switzerland, resides in the U.S. under an “E-2 VISA” (which is intended for foreign investors who live and work in the country) and “is not a permanent resident of the U.S. under a ‘green card,'” according to his attorney. ^[74] The complaint cites $41,000 in illegal federal campaign contributions Wyss paid between 1998 and 2003, claiming that, “Since that time, [Wyss] has made indirect contributions and expenditures by means of an intricate network of organizations in a scheme to obscure his role as the source of these funds.” ^[75]

APT alleges that Wyss established the Hub Project, a front for the “dark money” funder New Venture Fund and the recipient of significant funding from the Wyss Foundation, in order “to avoid any connection with the sizeable election activities carried out by the Hub Project and Change Now,” a super PAC associated with the Hub Project. “Operating since 2015
without the requisite FEC filing,” APT writes, “the Hub Project has been immune to any oversight and accountability despite significant spending in federal election.” It adds:

The Hub Project has served as a vehicle for the political spending of Mr. Wyss. This is demonstrated by the fact that Mr. Wyss has not publicly disclosed his role in founding the Hub Project. Neither his influence nor his financial support can be found anywhere on the group’s website. Rather, information regarding his involvement with the Hub Project was the result of “interviews with five people with knowledge of The Hub Project, an internal memo from another liberal group that was obtained by The New York Times.”

Hiding Political Agenda Behind “Fake News Sites”

The nonprofit watchdog OpenSecrets (published by the Center for Responsive Politics) reported in May 2020 on Arabella’s involvement in numerous “fake news sites,” pouring millions of untraceable dollars into advertisements and other digital content “masquerading as news coverage to influence the 2020 election.” ^[76]

OpenSecrets identified five Facebook pages (Colorado Chronicle, Daily CO, Nevada News Now, Silver State Sentinel, Verified Virginia) that “gave the impression of multiple free-standing local news outlets,” but are in fact “merely fictitious names used by the Sixteen Thirty Fund,” Arabella’s 501(c)(4) lobbying nonprofit. ^[77] These pages published Facebook political advertisements that favored Democrats and left-wing causes during the 2020 election. After the report was published a number of these pages were deleted.

States Newsroom, which runs another network of left-wing “fake news” websites, was originally created as “Newsroom Network,” a project of the Arabella-run 501(c)(3) Hopewell Fund. In June 2019, States Newsroom was spun off as an independent nonprofit with its own 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, but a number of its local affiliates are used by the Hopewell Fund as its own legal aliases. ^[78]

While States Newsroom does not disclose its donors (and is not required to by the IRS), ^[79]

IRS application records obtained by OpenSecrets show the States Newsroom was offered a $1 million donation from the Wyss Foundation, a private foundation primarily funded by Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, who made his fortune as CEO of a controversial medical device manufacturer called Synthes.

A financial statement in the IRS records obtained by OpenSecrets shows that the States Newsroom plans to bring in more than $27 million in contributions before the end of 2021.

And in 2018 the Hopewell Fund gave $1.72 million to News for Democracy, which OpenSecrets points out “was at the crux of a network of seemingly independent Facebook pages disguised as news outlets that started spending on digital ads in 2018,” with backing from the Sixteen Thirty Fund and Investing in US, an investment vehicle funded by LinkedIn founder and liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman. ^[80]

Also among these “dark money” groups was ACRONYM, which raised $9.4 million from “secret donors” through April 2019, including $250,000 from Arabella’s 501(c)(3) New Venture Fund. ACRONYM is affiliated with a super PAC, PACRONYM, which spent close to $18 million aiding Democrats and hurting Republicans through independent expenditures in the 2020 election. ^[81] ACRONYM also owns and operates Courier Newsroom, which in turn manages a network of left-wing websites that present themselves as local news outlets while spreading “hyperlocal partisan propaganda,” according to the centrist watchdog Newsguard. ^[82] Courier Newsroom spent at least $20,000 in digital advertising campaigns on Facebook between March 2019 and May 2020; its total spending in Facebook ads as of June 2021 is nearly $1.4 million. ^{[83] [84]}

Leadership

Eric Kessler, a former Clinton administration environmental policy staffer who also serves as principal of liberal philanthropic and investment strategy firm Arabella Advisors, was president and chair of Sixteen Thirty Fund until he resigned in June 2021 for unknown reasons. ^[85] He also  previously served as the board chair for the New Venture Fund. ^[86] More than 100 progressive organizations boast connections to Kessler and the New Venture Fund. ^[87]

Amy Kurtz is president and former executive director of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a position she’s held since November 2019. ^[88] Kurtz is also an independent consultant. Prior to joining Sixteen Thirty Fund, she was a senior advisor for America Votes, a left-wing get-out-the-vote nonprofit heavily funded by Sixteen Thirty Fund and other Arabella-run nonprofits. She has also worked as an associate director at the National Education Association, as a project manager at Defenders of Wildlife, and as a campaign director for the League of Conservation Voters. ^[89] In 2020, Kurtz earned total compensation from Sixteen Thirty Fund totaling $196,116. ^[90]

Board of Directors

As of 2020 the Sixteen Thirty Fund board of directors consists of: ^[91]

Raul Alvillar (board chair since June 2021): Executive vice president of Resolute, a public relations and communications firm, and former New Mexico State Director for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. From 2014 to 2016 he served as the National Political Director for the Democratic National Committee. Prior to that he was political director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, associate director in the Obama administration’s Office of Public Engagement, and a senior advisor for the Obama administration Public Engagement Office of Public Affairs. ^[92]

Douglas Hattaway (board secretary): Democratic Party consultant and president of Hattaway Communications. Hattaway has worked as a spokesman and communication director for the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, former Democratic Sen Tom Daschle, and as State Press Secretary for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Before that he worked as national spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. ^[93]

Dara Freed (board treasurer): American Democracy Institute vice president.

Jeff Cherry: Founder of the consultancy Conscious Ventures Partners.

LaToia Jones: Senior vice president of government affairs for Hustle, a peer-to-peer texting platform whose clients include many left-of-center organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns. Jones also serves on the board at Higher Heights, a PAC dedicated to getting more black women elected to public office. ^[94]

Former Board Members

Past Sixteen Thirty Fund board members include: ^[95]

Eric Kessler (former board chair; resigned in June 2021): Founder, principal, and senior managing director of Arabella Advisors.

Michael Madnik (resigned July 2018): Albright Stonebridge Group senior adviser.

Wilbur Priester (resigned Sept. 2019): Arabella Advisors chief financial officer.

Andrew Schulz: (resigned Sept. 2019): Arabella Advisors general counsel.

Monica Dixon (resigned Sept. 2019): Former Democratic PAC staffer.

Cristobal Alex (resigned Feb. 2019): Latino Victory Project president.

Nathaniel Chioke Williams (resigned Feb. 2019): Hill-Snowdon Foundation executive director.

Key Staff

All of Sixteen Thirty Fund’s IRS Form 990 filings from 2009 to 2020 show zero employees. Instead, as stated in the organization’s 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Form 990 filings, “New Venture Fund (NVF) is the paymaster for all managed organizations under Arabella for payroll[.] NVF pays the salary and immediately invoices Sixteen Thirty Fund, which pays the full amount back[.]” ^[96]

In Sixteen Thirty Fund’s 2019 Form 990 the text is: “New Venture Fund is the payroll reporting agent for Sixteen Thirty Fund under the IRS common paymaster rules. Under the arrangement, Sixteen Thirty Fund reimburses New Venture Fund for its allocated share of salaries and benefits, which is reported on Form 990, Part VII.” ^[97]

In 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund noted the following key employees: ^[98]

• Amy Kurtz, president (2020 total compensation $196,116)
• Ryan Johnson, project director (2020 total compensation: $213,570), former director of the Fairness Project (a Sixteen Thirty Fund grant recipient) ^[99]
• Arkadi Gerney, project director (2020 total compensation: $148,321; Gerney worked 16 hours per week in 2020, which amounts to just under $178 per hour)
• Patricia “Patty” Kupfer, campaigns director (2020 total compensation: $145,314), a former managing director for America’s Voice (a major Sixteen Thirty Fund grant recipient) from 2008-2015 and former activist for Colorado Families for a Fair Wage ^{[100] [101] [102]}
• Carl J. Walz, campaigns director (2020 total compensation: $143,555)
• Amy Steinhoff, campaigns director (2020 total compensation: $162,534)

Past Sixteen Thirty Fund employees include: ^[103]

• Brad Woodhouse, project director (2019 total compensation: $203,992; Woodhouse worked 16 hours per week in 2019, which amounts to just over $245 per hour)

Lobbying

Between 2014 and 2020 (Quarter 4), the Sixteen Thirty Fund spent nearly $2.5 million in lobbying expenditures in the U.S. Congress (a version with the bills lobbied for is available here): ^[104]

Year	Quarter	Amount	Lobbyist	Lobbying Firm
2020	4	$40,000	Fontenot, Yvette	Avenue Solutions
2020	3	$40,000	Fontenot, Yvette	Avenue Solutions
2020	2	$40,000	Fontenot, Yvette	Avenue Solutions
2020	1	$40,000	Fontenot, Yvette	Avenue Solutions
2019	4	$40,000	Fontenot, Yvette	Avenue Solutions
2019	3	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2019	3	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Tim Peckinpaugh, Kathleen Nicholas, Slade Gorton, Pamela Garvie, Paul Stimers, Laurie Purpuro, James Walsh	K&L Gates LLP
2019	3	$190,000	Daniel Schuman	Sixteen Thirty Fund
2019	3	$10,000	Maria Price, Robert Raben, Joe Onek, Diego Sanchez Gallardo, Timothy Lynch, Lawrence Gonzakez, Marit Vangrow	The Raben Group
2019	2	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2019	2	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Slade Gorton	K&L Gates LLP
2019	2	$160,000	Daniel Schuman	Sixteen Thirty Fund
2019	1	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2019	1	$90,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Eli Schooley	K&L Gates LLP
2019	1	$110,000	Daniel Schuman	Sixteen Thirty Fund
2018	4	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2018	4	$50,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, James Walsh, Tim Peckinpaugh	K&L Gates LLP
2018	4	$10,000	Sean Vitka	Pale Blue LLC
2018	4	$530,000	Daniel Schuman	Sixteen Thirty Fund
2018	3	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2018	3	$60,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, James Walsh, Kathleen Nicholas, Slade Gorton, Tim Peckinpaugh, Dennis Potter, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2018	3	$10,000	Sean Vitka	Pale Blue LLC
2018	3	$150,000	Daniel Schuman	Sixteen Thirty Fund
2018	2	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2018	2	$60,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, James Walsh, Kathleen Nicholas, John McHugh, Slade Gorton, Amanda Makki, Tim Peckinpaugh	K&L Gates LLP
2018	2	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2018	2	$10,000	Sean Vitka	Pale Blue LLC
2018	1	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2018	1	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, James Walsh, Kathleen Nicholas, Dennis Pooter, John McHugh	K&L Gates LLP
2018	1	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2018	1	$10,000	Sean Vitka	Pale Blue LLC
2017	4	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2017	4	$30,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, James Walsh, Kathleen Nicholas, W. Dennis Stephens, Dennis Potter, John McHugh, Nicholas Leibham	K&L Gates LLP
2017	4	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2017	4	$10,000	Sean Vitka	Pale Blue LLC
2017	3	$10,000	Robert Epplin	Epplin Strategic Planning
2017	3	$15,000	Richard Healy	Healy Consulting Group
2017	3	$30,000	Daniel Ritter, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, James Walsh, Tim Peckinpaugh, Kathleen Nicholas, W. Dennis Stephens, Dennis Potter	K&L Gates LLP
2017	3	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2017	2	$10,000	Robert Epplin	Epplin Strategic Planning
2017	2	$30,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton, James Walsh, Barton Gordon, Tim Peckinpaugh, Kathleen Nicholas	K&L Gates LLP
2017	2	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2017	1	$30,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, Steven Valentine, Slad Gorton, Tim Peckinpaugh, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2017	1	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2016	4	$20,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2016	4	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2016	3	$20,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2016	3	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2016	2	$20,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2016	2	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2016	1	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2016	1	$10,000	Michele Wymer	Kyle House Group
2016	1	$10,000	Sean Vitka	Pale Blue LLC
2015	4	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton, W. Dennis Stephens	K&L Gates LLP
2015	3	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton	K&L Gates LLP
2015	2	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton, Dennis Potter	K&L Gates LLP
2015	1	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton	K&L Gates LLP
2014	4	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Sean McGlynn, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, Slade Gorton, W. Dennis Stephens Nicholas Leibham	K&L Gates LLP
2014	4	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, James Walsh, Steven Valentine, W. Dennis Stephens, Dennis Potter, Ryan Severson	K&L Gates LLP
2014	3	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Steven Valentine, W. Dennis Stephens, James Walsh, Nicholas Leibham, Sean McGlynn, Emanuel Rouvelas, Barton Gordon, William Kirk	K&L Gates LLP
2014	2	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Steven Valentine, W. Dennis Stephens, James Walsh, Dennis Potter, Nicholas Leibham, Barton Gordon, Sean McGlynn, William Kirk, Scott Aliferis, Tricia Markwood, Amy Carnevale	K&L Gates LLP
2014	1	$40,000	Daniel Ritter, Paul Stimers, Steven Valentine, W. Dennis Stephens, James Walsh	K&L Gates LLP
Total:		$2,625,000

Funding

Financial Overview

Sixteen Thirty Fund: Financial Overview (2009-2020)
	Total Revenues	Total Expenditures	Grants Paid	Net Assets
2020	$388,206,178	$410,038,247	$324,931,044	$61,904,683
2019	$138,371,684	$98,641,867	$64,973,649	$82,358,064
2018	$143,837,877	$141,396,752	$91,386,301	$42,513,247
2017	$79,559,836	$46,893,083	$13,336,144	$39,872,122
2016	$21,258,592	$19,660,860	$14,584,591	$7,205,369
2015	$5,617,209	$8,660,897	$6,768,578	$5,607,637
2014	$16,523,735	$10,880,643	$9,719,545	$8,651,325
2013	$5,269,965	$2,721,133	$1,322,500	$3,008,233
2012	$812,500	$353,098	$152,500	$459,401
2011	$93,600	$93,600	-	-
2010	-	$447,394	$146,569	-
2009	$4,828,000	$4,380,606	$3,336,624	$447,394
Grand Total:	$894,379,176	$744,168,180	$530,658,045

The Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues grew 1,547 percent between 2009 and 2017.

From 2018 to 2019, the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues decreased from $143.8 million to $138.7 million, a decrease of 3.8 percent. ^[105]

From 2017 to 2018, the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues increased from $79.6 million to $143.8 million, an increase of 80.8 percent. ^[106]

From 2016 to 2017, the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues increased from $21.3 million to $79.6 million, an increase of 274 percent. ^[107]

From 2015 to 2016, the Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues increased from $5.6 million to $21.3 million, an increase of 278 percent. ^[108]

Donors to Sixteen Thirty Fund

As a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, the Sixteen Thirty Fund isn’t required by the IRS to report its donors.

The Washington Free Beacon reported that the Sixteen Thirty Fund received $860,000 from four labor unions in 2015 and 2016, including the AFL-CIO and the National Education Association. ^[109]

In 2017, the left-leaning group Avaaz Foundation granted $10,000 to Sixteen Thirty for “US Tax March,” likely indicating support for the Sixteen Thirty-run project Tax March, which lobbies for greater taxes on the wealthy. ^[110]

Sixteen Thirty Fund also received over $4.5 million from the Atlantic Philanthropies, a Bermuda-based philanthropic enterprise that funded left-of-center organizations. ^[111] Other known funders of Sixteen Thirty include the Tides Foundation. ^[112]

In 2018, Politico identified a handful of liberal donors to the Fund: ^[113]

The group does disclose the amount of money of each donation, which shows several strikingly large contributions: One donor gave the group $51,705,000; a second gave $26,747,561 and a third gave $10,000,000. And The Hub Project disclosed three of its donors in 2017: Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, the union American Federation of Teachers and the Wyss Foundation, founded by businessman and environmentalist Hansjörg Wyss.

The second donor noted above is likely the New Venture Fund, since it shows a $26,747,561 grant to the Sixteen Thirty Fund for “capacity building.” ^[114]

The following are all known grants and donors to the Sixteen Thirty Fund from 2010 to 2018 (excluding the Arabella-run nonprofits Hopewell Fund and New Venture Fund): ^[115]

Donor	Amount	Year	Description
AFSCME	$120,000	2018	General Support
Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation	$52,500	2018	Net Neutrality
Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO CLC)	$50,000	2018	General Support
Democracy Fund Voice	$650,000	2018	Law Works Action
Democracy Fund Voice	$100,000	2018	Demand Progress Action
Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium	$11,000	2018	Demand Progress
Fairness Project	$600,000	2018	Program Services
Grove Action Fund	$25,000	2018	All Above All
Instructional Telecommunications Foundation	$100,000	2018	Net Neutrality
NextGen Climate Action	$128,000	2018	The Townhall Project
Planned Parenthood Action Fund	$250,000	2018	To support public affairs programs
State Engagement Fund	$2,045,000	2018	To support nonpartisan voter engagement and mobilization
Tides Advocacy	$195,000	2018	Equality and Human Rights
Tides Foundation	$30,000	2018	Economic development
AFL-CIO	$10,000	2017	General Contribution
AFSCME	$120,000	2017	General Support
Avaaz Foundation	$10,000	2017	US Tax March
Center for Community Change Action	$50,000	2017	Childcare Jobs
Center for Empowered Politics	$30,000	2017	General Support
Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation	$60,000	2017	Net Neutrality
Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO CLC)	$25,000	2017	General Support
Demand Progress Action	$626,298	2017	The Fund's purpose is to engage in activism to promote civil liberties, privacy and open government
Democracy Fund Voice	$100,000	2017	Support for Demand Progress Action
Groundswell Action Fund	$50,000	2017	-
Instructional Telecommunications Foundation	$90,000	2017	Net Neutrality
Majority Forward	$116,000	2017	General Support
National Education Association	$800,000	2017	Financial Assistance
Public Citizen Foundation	$5,000	2017	Programatic Support
Tioga Fund	$15,000	2017	General support
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East	$15,000	2016	Solidarity Contribution
AFL-CIO	$200,000	2016	Organizational Support
AFSCME	$300,000	2016	General Support
All Hands on Deck Network	$7,500	2016	-
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)	$30,000	2016	Related Organization Program
Center for Community Change Action	$150,000	2016	Childcare Jobs
Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation	$20,000	2016	Net Neutrality
Demand Progress Action	$672,292	2016	The Fund's purpose is to engage in activism to promote civil liberties, privacy and open government
Instructional Telecommunications Foundation	$50,000	2016	Voter Registration
National Education Association	$550,000	2016	Financial Assistance
American Unity Fund	$310,000	2015	Promote freedom for LGBT Americans
National Education Association	$50,000	2015	Financial Assistance
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union	$10,000	2015	General support
AFL-CIO	$200,000	2014	General Contribution
AFSCME	$460,000	2014	General Support
National Education Association	$75,000	2014	Financial Assistance
Western Conservation Action	$15,000	2014	Conservation Outreach
AFSCME	$120,000	2013	General Support
AFSCME	$50,000	2012	General Support
Progressive Future	$12,500	2010	Program Support
Total:	$9,761,090

Grants from Sixteen Thirty Fund

While the Sixteen Thirty Fund primarily provides incubation (or fiscal sponsorship) services, it also pays out millions of dollars in grants each year. The Sixteen Thirty Fund paid $324 million in grants in 2020, $65 million in grants in 2019, $91 million in grants in 2018, $13 million in grants in 2017, $14 million in grants in 2016, and $6 million grants in 2015. ^[116]

The following is a list of grants from Sixteen Thirty between 2013 and 2021: ^[117]

Sixteen Thirty Fund Grant Recipients	Year	Amount
1000 Women Strong	2021	$100,000.00
9 to 5 National Association of Working Women	2021	$50,000.00
A Better Big Sky	2021	$40,000.00
A Better Wisconsin Together	2021	$25,000.00
Accelerate the South	2021	$225,000.00
Action Center on Race and the Economy	2021	$250,000.00
ADRC Action	2021	$30,000.00
Advance North Carolina	2021	$210,000.00
Advancing AZ	2021	$8,750,000.00
Alaska AFL-CIO	2021	$153,875.00
Alaska Progressive Donor Table	2021	$7,500.00
Alaskans for Better Government	2021	$500,000.00
Alaskans for Posterity	2021	$275,000.00
Alliance for Climate Education	2021	$100,000.00
Alliance for Justice Action Campaign	2021	$25,000.00
Allied Media Action Fund	2021	$200,000.00
America Votes	2021	$1,525,000.00
America Works USA	2021	$100,000.00
American Bridge 21st Century	2021	$2,100,000.00
American Clean Power Association	2021	$1,500,000.00
American Energy Action	2021	$500,000.00
Americas Voice	2021	$950,000.00
Amplify New Hampshire	2021	$4,174,774.00
Annie's List Training and Engagment Fund	2021	$75,000.00
Arizona Human Rights Foundation	2021	$115,000.00
Arizonans for a Just Democracy	2021	$100,000.00
Avow Inc	2021	$225,000.00
Battle Born Collective	2021	$535,000.00
BBT Inc	2021	$3,275,000.00
Be a Hero PAC	2021	$25,000.00
Better Pennsylvania	2021	$115,995.00
Big Sky Fifty Five Plus	2021	$25,000.00
Black Male Voter Project	2021	$65,000.00
Black Voters Matter Fund	2021	$250,000.00
Black Women for Wellness	2021	$10,000.00
Brady	2021	$100,000.00
Building a Stronger Anchorage	2021	$35,000.00
Buiness Action Fund	2021	$125,000.00
Café Accion	2021	$25,000.00
Care in Action	2021	$90,000.00
Casa in Action	2021	$200,000.00
Casa in Action PAC	2021	$200,000.00
CASE Action Fund	2021	$560,000.00
Centennial State Prosperity	2021	$570,600.00
Center for American Progress	2021	$50,000.00
Center for American Progress Action Fund	2021	$150,000.00
Center for Civic Action	2021	$75,000.00
Center for Community Change Action	2021	$1,485,000.00
Center for Economic and Policy Research	2021	$75,000.00
Center for Health and Democracy	2021	$17,500.00
Citizen Action of New York	2021	$125,000.00
Citizens Utility Board	2021	$150,000.00
Civic Empowerment Coalition	2021	$305,000.00
Civic Engagement Beyond Voting	2021	$25,000.00
Civic Nation Action	2021	$75,000.00
Clean Energy for America	2021	$700,000.00
Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights	2021	$20,000.00
Coloradans Creating Opportunities	2021	$75,000.00
Colorado Values Project	2021	$200,000.00
Committee on States	2021	$25,000.00
Common Cause	2021	$275,000.00
Common Defense Civic Engagment	2021	$1,060,000.00
Commonwealth Communications	2021	$35,000.00
Commonwealth Foundation	2021	$77,000.00
Comunidades Organizando el Poder Y la Accion Latina	2021	$30,000.00
Congressional Integrity Project	2021	$500,000.00
Connecticut Citizen Action Group	2021	$30,000.00
Conservation Voters for Idaho	2021	$60,000.00
Deeds Actions Fund	2021	$50,000.00
Defending Democracy Together	2021	$500,000.00
Demand Justice	2021	$1,982,613.00
Demand Justice PAC	2021	$110,000.00
Demand Progress Action	2021	$150,000.00
Democracy for America Advocacy	2021	$25,000.00
Democratic Party of Virginia	2021	$15,000.00
Down Home North Carolina	2021	$215,000.00
Drug Policy Alliance	2021	$50,000.00
Drum Major Institute	2021	$250,000.00
Earthseed LLC	2021	$222,000.00
Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan	2021	$50,000.00
Electrification Coalition Foundation	2021	$100,000.00
Energy Action Fund	2021	$75,000.00
Environmental Defense Action Fund	2021	$1,950,000.00
Environmental Voter Project	2021	$240,000.00
Equity PAC	2021	$100,000.00
Erie County Surj IE Committee	2021	$40,000.00
Evergreen Action	2021	$750,000.00
Every Elligible American	2021	$400,000.00
Fair Future NC	2021	$90,000.00
Fair Lines Colorado	2021	$175,000.00
Fair Share Action	2021	$1,950,000.00
Faith in Action Fund	2021	$275,000.00
Faith in Minnesota	2021	$240,000.00
Faith in Public Life Action Fund	2021	$75,000.00
Families Against Mandatory Minimums	2021	$125,000.00
Family Farm Action	2021	$35,000.00
Family Forward Action	2021	$75,000.00
Family Friendly Action Fund	2021	$1,460,000.00
Family Friendly Action PAC	2021	$185,000.00
First Institutional Baptist Church	2021	$10,000.00
FLIC Votes	2021	$125,000.00
Florida Consumer Action Network	2021	$10,000.00
For Our Future Action Fund	2021	$99,916.00
For West Virginias Future	2021	$175,000.00
Free Fair PA	2021	$25,000.00
Free Press Action Fund	2021	$80,000.00
Freedom Virginia Inc	2021	$114,000.00
FSIC American Innovation and Opputunity Fund	2021	$10,000.00
Fund for a Better Future	2021	$1,600,000.00
Future Now Action	2021	$937,000.00
Galaxy Gives Action Fund	2021	$25,000.00
Georgia Investor Action Fund	2021	$25,000.00
GLPA Lead	2021	$75,000.00
Hero Action Fund	2021	$45,000.00
Highlander Research and Education Center	2021	$10,000.00
Idaho Values First Foundation	2021	$495,000.00
If Not Now	2021	$50,000.00
Independent Restaurant Coalition	2021	$216,357.00
Innovation Ohio	2021	$70,000.00
Iowa Citizen Acton Network	2021	$5,600.00
Iowa Forward	2021	$85,000.00
Justice Forward Virginia	2021	$50,000.00
Kansans for Constitutional Freedom	2021	$15,000.00
Land Stewardship Action Fund	2021	$50,000.00
Land Stewardship Project	2021	$75,000.00
Lead PA	2021	$75,000.00
League of Conservation Voters	2021	$18,915,000.00
League of Women Voters of New Jersey	2021	$50,000.00
Little Lobbyists Acton Network	2021	$25,000.00
Living United for Change in Arizona	2021	$540,000.00
Maine Peoples Alliance	2021	$3,500,000.00
Mainers for Working Families	2021	$238,000.00
Make the Road Action in PA	2021	$330,000.00
March On	2021	$300,000.00
Maryland Rise Inc	2021	$70,000.00
Mexican American Legislative Policy Council	2021	$200,000.00
Mi Familia Vota	2021	$130,000.00
Michigan Civic Action Fund	2021	$155,000.00
Michigan Democratic State Central Committee 21st Century Fund	2021	$250,000.00
Michigan Peoples Campaign	2021	$100,000.00
Michiganders for Fair Lending	2021	$25,000.00
Mijente	2021	$100,000.00
Minneapolis Area Synod	2021	$20,000.00
Minnesota Youth Collective	2021	$45,000.00
MN350 Action	2021	$100,000.00
Moms Rising	2021	$45,000.00
Montana Budget and Policy Center	2021	$35,000.00
More than A Vote	2021	$150,000.00
Move Texas Action Fund	2021	$575,000.00
NAACP Atlanta Branch	2021	$10,000.00
Nakasec Action Fund	2021	$180,000.00
National Action Network	2021	$250,000.00
National Black Women's Health Project	2021	$15,000.00
National Conference of Democratic Mayors	2021	$25,000.00
National Partnership for Women and Families Action Fund	2021	$25,000.00
National Redestricting Action Fund	2021	$250,000.00
NCAAT in Action	2021	$50,000.00
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund	2021	$25,000.00
Nevada Alliance	2021	$45,000.00
New Day Nevada	2021	$1,110,000.00
New Florida Majority	2021	$280,000.00
New Georgia Project Action Fund	2021	$225,000.00
New Rural Project	2021	$50,000.00
New Venture Fund	2021	$469,900.00
New York Communities for Change	2021	$8,412.00
Newtown Action Alliance	2021	$25,000.00
NM Native Vote	2021	$25,000.00
North Carolina A Phillip Randolph Educational Fund	2021	$25,000.00
North Carolina Black Alliance	2021	$15,000.00
North Fund	2021	$1,136,250.00
North Star Prosperity	2021	$47,500.00
NRDC Action Fund	2021	$2,000,000.00
Ohio Progressive Collaborative	2021	$800,000.00
One for Democracy Action Fund	2021	$225,000.00
Open Democracy PAC	2021	$150,000.00
Opportunities for all Floridians	2021	$57,000.00
Opportunity Arizona	2021	$140,000.00
Organize Pennsylvania	2021	$225,000.00
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment	2021	$100,000.00
Our Voice Our Vote Arizona	2021	$50,000.00
PAC for Justice	2021	$150,000.00
Partnership for Innovation and Empowerment	2021	$10,000.00
Partnership Project Action Fund	2021	$6,705,000.00
Pennsylvania United	2021	$225,000.00
Peoples Acton Institute	2021	$200,000.00
Piedmont Rising	2021	$40,000.00
Plan Action Fund	2021	$100,000.00
Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund	2021	$27,800.00
Plus Action Fund	2021	$30,000.00
Poder NC Action	2021	$50,000.00
Power Action Fund	2021	$125,000.00
Progress Michigan	2021	$50,000.00
ProgressNow	2021	$105,000.00
ProgressNow New Mexico	2021	$35,000.00
Promote the Vote	2021	$150,000.00
Prosperity Michigan	2021	$2,160,000.00
Protect MI Vote	2021	$2,500,000.00
Red Wine & Blue	2021	$75,000.00
Renew New England	2021	$400,000.00
Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance	2021	$150,000.00
Rights and Democracy Project	2021	$120,000.00
Road to Michigan's Future	2021	$100,000.00
Rocky Mountain Values	2021	$30,000.00
Run for Something Action Fund	2021	$600,000.00
Rural Arizona Action	2021	$115,000.00
RuralOrganizing.org	2021	$200,000.00
Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference	2021	$10,000.00
Scale Inc	2021	$50,000.00
Scholars Strategy Network	2021	$13,853.00
Securing Americas Future Energy Alliance	2021	$200,000.00
Siembra NC	2021	$50,000.00
Small Business Majority Foundation	2021	$20,000.00
Solar United Neighbors Action	2021	$7,000.00
Somos Accion	2021	$50,000.00
Stand Up America	2021	$150,000.00
TakeAction Minnesota	2021	$315,000.00
TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund	2021	$50,000.00
Texas Freedom Network	2021	$75,000.00
Texas Impact	2021	$15,000.00
The Arena	2021	$150,000.00
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence	2021	$163,750.00
The Common Ground Project	2021	$8,000.00
The Greenlining Institute	2021	$150,000.00
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights	2021	$50,000.00
The Organizing Alliance	2021	$25,000.00
The Praxis Project	2021	$50,000.00
The Terrell Bosley Anti Violence Association	2021	$7,000.00
The Voter Project	2021	$250,000.00
Tides Advocacy	2021	$1,765,000.00
Tides Center	2021	$50,000.00
Ultraviolet Action	2021	$402,500.00
Unidos MN	2021	$100,000.00
Unite Here Local 355	2021	$20,000.00
United We Dream Action	2021	$300,000.00
US Middle East Project	2021	$61,250.00
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values	2021	$50,000.00
Virginia New Majority	2021	$815,000.00
Voter Formation Project	2021	$1,000,000.00
We the People Action Fund	2021	$450,000.00
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy	2021	$125,000.00
Western Conservation Action	2021	$275,000.00
Western Futures Fund	2021	$107,850.00
Wisconsin Farmers Union	2021	$50,000.00
Wisconsin Opportunity Coalition	2021	$250,000.00
Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania	2021	$10,000.00
Working America	2021	$50,000.00
Working America Education Fund	2021	$70,000.00
Working Families Organization	2021	$153,000.00
WorkMoney Inc	2021	$25,000.00
Zero Emission Transportation Association	2021	$100,000.00
A Better Big Sky	2020	$200,000.00
Abortion Access For All	2020	$100,000.00
Accountable Justice Action Fund	2020	$100,000.00
Acronym	2020	$51,000.00
Advance North Carolina Inc	2020	$291,000.00
Advancing Az	2020	$2,477,000.00
Alasksa Afl-Cio	2020	$65,000.00
Alasksa Progressive Donor Table	2020	$50,000.00
Alaskans For Posterity	2020	$155,000.00
Alliance For A Better Minnesota	2020	$142,000.00
Alliance For Youth Action	2020	$1,450,000.00
Allied Media Action Fund	2020	$125,000.00
America Promise Pac	2020	$4,750,000.00
America Votes	2020	$128,976,147.00
American Bridge 21St Century	2020	$2,130,000.00
America'S Promise Action Fund	2020	$200,000.00
Annie'S List Training And Engagement Fund	2020	$25,000.00
Arizona Advocacy Network	2020	$10,000.00
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc	2020	$150,000.00
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center	2020	$25,000.00
Better Colorado Alliance	2020	$400,000.00
Better Future For New Mexico	2020	$50,000.00
Better Pennsylvania	2020	$922,250.00
Big Sky Voters Pac	2020	$25,000.00
Bipartisan Policy Center	2020	$10,000.00
Black Male Voter Project	2020	$300,000.00
Black Voters Matter Fund	2020	$225,000.00
Blackpac	2020	$2,250,000.00
Born To Run Colorado	2020	$35,500.00
Business Action Fund	2020	$20,000.00
Café Accion	2020	$10,000.00
Care In Action Inc	2020	$40,000.00
Casa In Action	2020	$300,000.00
Casa In Action Pac	2020	$150,000.00
Center For American Progress	2020	$3,240,000.00
Center For Change A Northern Michigan Advocacy Group	2020	$65,000.00
Center For Civic Action	2020	$195,000.00
Center For Popular Democracy Action Fund	2020	$508,799.00
Central Arizonans For A Sustainable Economy	2020	$20,000.00
Chenge Now Inc	2020	$5,930,000.00
Children'S Action Alliance Inc	2020	$20,000.00
Coloradans Creating Opportunities	2020	$250,000.00
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative	2020	$27,600.00
Colorado Families First	2020	$2,642,272.00
Colorofchange.Org	2020	$23,986.00
Committee To Protect Medicare And The Aca Inc	2020	$25,000.00
Common Cause	2020	$635,000.00
Congressional Integrity Project	2020	$1,000,000.00
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc	2020	$60,000.00
Consumers For Affordable Health Care Foundation	2020	$10,000.00
Cooperative For Assistance And Relief Everywhere Inc	2020	$20,000.00
Count Mi Vote	2020	$20,000.00
Cultivate Team Llc	2020	$260,000.00
Defeat By Tweet Pac	2020	$75,000.00
Defend Alaska	2020	$150,000.00
Defending Democracy Together	2020	$10,050,000.00
Election Security Center	2020	$300,000.00
Emerging American Majorities	2020	$850,000.00
Environmental Defense Action Fund	2020	$1,000,000.00
Ethnic Minorities Of Burma Advocacy And Resource Center	2020	$10,000.00
Fair Fight Action Inc	2020	$2,229,000.00
Fair Future Nc	2020	$1,050,000.00
Fair Lines Colorado	2020	$63,000.00
Faith 2020	2020	$40,000.00
Faith In Action Fund	2020	$250,000.00
Faith In Minnesota	2020	$450,000.00
Faith In Public Life Action Fund	2020	$238,250.00
Families Against Mandatory Minimums	2020	$62,500.00
Family Farm Action	2020	$50,000.00
Family Friendly Action Fund	2020	$1,178,000.00
Family Friendly Action Pac	2020	$300,000.00
Fight For The Base	2020	$200,000.00
First Draft News Inc	2020	$200,000.00
Flic Votes Inc	2020	$250,000.00
Florida Voices For Health Inc	2020	$16,000.00
Florida Watch Inc	2020	$737,000.00
For Our Future Action Fund	2020	$40,000.00
Forward Majority Action	2020	$2,680,000.00
Freedom Action Now Inc	2020	$15,000.00
Freedom Virginia Inc	2020	$118,000.00
Future Forward Usa Action	2020	$15,232,000.00
Future Forward Usa Pac	2020	$7,500,000.00
Future Now Action	2020	$734,000.00
Future Now Fund	2020	$10,000.00
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc	2020	$600,000.00
Giffords	2020	$120,000.00
Groundswell Action Fund	2020	$16,433.00
Hero Action Fund	2020	$30,000.00
Higher Ground Labs Management Llc	2020	$415,930.00
House Majority Forward	2020	$750,000.00
If Not Now Movement	2020	$12,000.00
Iowa Citizen Action Network	2020	$130,000.00
Iowa Forward	2020	$1,205,000.00
Isssue One	2020	$3,000,000.00
Justice Forward Virginia	2020	$50,000.00
Kansas Values Institute	2020	$300,000.00
Keep Our Republic	2020	$50,000.00
Land Stewardship Action Fund	2020	$10,000.00
Latino Victory Project	2020	$14,650.00
Lead Nc	2020	$25,000.00
Lead Pa	2020	$25,000.00
Leading Colorado Forward	2020	$1,500,000.00
League Of Conservation Voters	2020	$3,515,500.00
League Of Women Voters Of New Jersey	2020	$50,000.00
League Of Women Voters Of The United States	2020	$500,000.00
Living United For Change In Arizona	2020	$76,500.00
Maine Center For Economic Policy	2020	$15,000.00
Maine Momentum	2020	$1,936,000.00
Maine People'S Alliance	2020	$60,000.00
Maine People'S Resources Center	2020	$15,000.00
Majority Forward	2020	$3,000,000.00
Make North Carolina First	2020	$25,000.00
Make The Road Action In Pa	2020	$150,000.00
Maryland Center For Economic Policy	2020	$24,500.00
Mecep Action	2020	$70,000.00
Michigan Civic Action Fund	2020	$105,000.00
Michigan Peoples Campaign	2020	$150,000.00
Mijente	2020	$170,000.00
Millions Of Michiganians	2020	$175,000.00
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action	2020	$25,000.00
Missouri Win	2020	$200,000.00
Mn350 Action	2020	$110,000.00
Momentum Action Inc	2020	$50,000.00
Momsrising Together	2020	$80,000.00
Montana Hunters & Anglers	2020	$50,000.00
Montana Native Vote	2020	$50,000.00
More Treatment For A Better Oregon	2020	$250,000.00
Mothering Justice Action Fund	2020	$30,000.00
Moveon.Org Political Action Fund	2020	$235,000.00
Moving Nc Forward	2020	$125,000.00
Msp Area Now	2020	$15,000.00
Naral Pro-Choice Ma Inc	2020	$9,489.00
Naral Pro-Choice Minnesota	2020	$20,000.00
Naral Pro-Choice Virginia	2020	$22,300.00
Nebraskans For Responsible Lending	2020	$1,085,000.00
Network Education Program	2020	$225,000.00
New America Foundation	2020	$10,000.00
New Day Nevada Inc	2020	$90,000.00
New Era Colorado Foundation	2020	$24,067.00
New Florida Majority	2020	$420,000.00
New Georgia Project Action Fund	2020	$265,000.00
New Venture Fund	2020	$8,232,242.00
Nextgen Climate Action Committee	2020	$3,700,000.00
North Carolina Citizens For Protecting Our Schools	2020	$575,000.00
North Fund	2020	$19,390,584.00
Ohio Afl-Cio	2020	$50,000.00
Ohio Organizing Campaign	2020	$75,000.00
One Fair Wage Action	2020	$150,000.00
One Fair Wage Inc	2020	$25,000.00
One For All Committee	2020	$550,000.00
Opportunity Arizona	2020	$716,500.00
Organize Florida	2020	$365,000.00
Organize For Justice	2020	$20,000.00
Organize Pennsylvania	2020	$400,000.00
Organizers In The Land Of Enchantment	2020	$100,000.00
Pac For Justice	2020	$50,000.00
Pacronym	2020	$3,000,000.00
Pennsylvania Alliance Action	2020	$175,000.00
Pennsylvania Fund For Change	2020	$200,000.00
Pennsylvania Stands Up	2020	$500,000.00
Pennsylvania United	2020	$250,000.00
People'S Action	2020	$326,000.00
Peoples Action Power	2020	$100,000.00
Piedmont Rising Inc	2020	$7,005,000.00
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc	2020	$25,000.00
Poder Nc Action	2020	$50,000.00
Policylink Equity Action Network	2020	$12,580.00
Priorities Usa	2020	$1,500,000.00
Priorities Usa Action	2020	$4,500,000.00
Progress Michigan	2020	$545,000.00
Progress North Carolina Action	2020	$325,000.00
Progressive Change Institute	2020	$12,500.00
Progressive Leadership Alliance Of Nevada Action Fund	2020	$75,000.00
Progressive State Leaders Committee	2020	$50,000.00
Progressnow	2020	$160,000.00
Progressnow Arizona	2020	$100,000.00
Progressnow Colorado	2020	$114,000.00
Progressnow Colorado Education	2020	$15,000.00
Progressnow Education	2020	$5,211,000.00
Progressnow New Mexico	2020	$90,000.00
Prosperity Michigan	2020	$818,250.00
Protect Colorado'S Recovery	2020	$200,000.00
Protect Minnestoa Advocacy Fund	2020	$100,000.00
Purple Pac	2020	$100,000.00
Pushblack Now	2020	$700,000.00
Real Facts Nc	2020	$43,000.00
Results Education Fund Inc	2020	$31,335.00
Rocky Mountain Values	2020	$1,590,000.00
Rural Arizona Action	2020	$190,000.00
Rural Economic Development Center Inc	2020	$13,800.00
Ruralorganizing.Org	2020	$565,000.00
Ruralvote.Org	2020	$25,000.00
Save My Country Action Fund	2020	$85,000.00
Secure Democracy	2020	$500,000.00
Secure Elections Project	2020	$1,040,000.00
Senate Majority Pac	2020	$500,000.00
Somos Accion	2020	$150,000.00
Stand Up America Inc	2020	$29,300.00
State Engagement Fund	2020	$350,000.00
Story Network Foundation	2020	$965,000.00
Sunrise	2020	$950,000.00
Sunrise Pac	2020	$500,000.00
Swpa Moving Forward	2020	$11,500.00
Take Back 2020	2020	$5,150,000.00
Takeaction Minnesota	2020	$615,000.00
Taskforce Llc	2020	$400,000.00
Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee	2020	$100,000.00
The Center For Empowered Politics	2020	$120,000.00
The Center For Media Justice	2020	$120,000.00
The Coalition To Stop Gun Violence	2020	$78,500.00
The Common Ground Project	2020	$29,000.00
The Commonwealth Institute For Fiscal Analysis	2020	$70,000.00
The Cooperative Impact Lab	2020	$550,000.00
The Fairness Project	2020	$226,000.00
The Hopewell Fund	2020	$215,331.00
The Leadership Conference On Civil And Human Rights	2020	$1,250,000.00
The Lincoln Project	2020	$300,000.00
The Movement Cooperative	2020	$250,000.00
The Organizing Alliance	2020	$75,000.00
The People Over Profits Florida Inc	2020	$7,500.00
The Ucla Foundation	2020	$125,000.00
The Voter Project	2020	$393,000.00
Tides Advocacy	2020	$1,895,700.00
Tides Foundation	2020	$350,000.00
Together Wisconsin Acts Inc	2020	$75,000.00
Ultraviolet Action	2020	$215,000.00
Unidosus Action Fund	2020	$15,000.00
Unite The Country Inc	2020	$100,000.00
United For Respect	2020	$20,000.00
United We Dream Action	2020	$125,000.00
Victory 2020	2020	$7,700,000.00
Virginia New Majority	2020	$150,000.00
Virginia21 Action	2020	$5,500.00
Vote Common Good	2020	$225,000.00
Voter Protection Corps Education And Advocacy Fund	2020	$341,000.00
Voters Organized To Educate - Vote Action Fund	2020	$650,000.00
Voto Latino	2020	$170,000.00
We The People Pennsylvania Action	2020	$225,000.00
Western Organization Of Resource Councils	2020	$25,000.00
Win Minnesota	2020	$75,000.00
Wisconsin Farmers Union	2020	$25,000.00
Women Vote!	2020	$100,000.00
Women'S March Inc	2020	$32,015.00
Working Families Organization	2020	$150,000.00
Working Families Party National Independent Expenditure	2020	$50,000.00
Workmoney Inc	2020	$4,678,700.00
North Fund	2019	$9,300,500.00
America Votes	2019	$7,060,000.00
LCV Victory Fund	2019	$6,787,500.00
Environment America	2019	$4,900,000.00
Rocky Mountain Values	2019	$4,050,000.00
Advancing AZ	2019	$3,950,000.00
Maine Momentum	2019	$3,850,000.00
League of Conservation Voters	2019	$3,500,000.00
Iowa Forward	2019	$2,900,000.00
Piedmont Rising Inc	2019	$1,750,000.00
Future Forward USA PAC	2019	$1,415,274.00
Green Tech Action Fund	2019	$1,000,000.00
Senate Majority Project	2019	$1,000,000.00
Movement Cooperative	2019	$1,000,000.00
Center for American Progress Action Fund	2019	$750,000.00
Secure Elections Project	2019	$750,000.00
Nebraskans for Responsible Lending	2019	$665,000.00
Fairness Project	2019	$625,000.00
Accountable Justice Action Fund	2019	$500,000.00
American Wind Action	2019	$500,000.00
House Majority PAC	2019	$500,000.00
MobilizeAmerica Inc	2019	$500,000.00
New Venture Fund	2019	$476,800.00
Center for Community Change Action	2019	$300,000.00
Forward Majority Action	2019	$290,000.00
Colorofchange.org	2019	$250,000.00
Forward Florida Action	2019	$250,000.00
Cooperative Impact Lab	2019	$250,000.00
Maine People's Alliance	2019	$200,000.00
New Day Nevada Inc	2019	$200,000.00
Family Friendly Action Fund	2019	$194,500.00
Moving NC Forward Inc	2019	$190,000.00
Secure Democracy	2019	$175,000.00
Iowa Citizen Action Network	2019	$170,000.00
Living United for Change in Arizona	2019	$165,000.00
American Bridge 21st Century	2019	$150,000.00
High Ground Action Fund	2019	$150,000.00
The Arena	2019	$150,000.00
Virginia New Majority	2019	$149,000.00
Opportunities for All Floridians Inc	2019	$138,000.00
Families Against Mandatory Minimums	2019	$125,000.00
Save My Country Action Fund	2019	$125,000.00
Tides Advocacy	2019	$109,137.00
Better Pennsylvania	2019	$100,000.00
Coloradans for Prosperity	2019	$100,000.00
Gun Violence Prevention Aciton Committee	2019	$100,000.00
Heartland Forward	2019	$100,000.00
League of Women Voters of Ohio	2019	$100,000.00
Ohio Organizing Campaign	2019	$100,000.00
Our Voice Our Vote Airzona	2019	$100,000.00
Prosperity Michigan	2019	$100,000.00
Protect Minnesota Advocacy Fund	2019	$100,000.00
Real Justice PAC	2019	$100,000.00
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund	2019	$92,000.00
Opportunity Arizona	2019	$91,000.00
Arizonans for Secure Elections	2019	$90,000.00
Maryland Citizens Health	2019	$85,000.00
Maine Gun Safety Coalition	2019	$80,000.00
Ceasefire Pensylvania	2019	$75,000.00
Hoosier Action Inc	2019	$75,000.00
Progress North Carolina Action	2019	$74,000.00
Conservation Colorado	2019	$70,000.00
Momsrising Together	2019	$70,000.00
RuralOrganizing.org	2019	$70,000.00
Alaska AFL-CIO	2019	$65,000.00
Mainers for Working Families	2019	$62,498.00
Arizona Wins	2019	$61,268.00
Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action	2019	$60,000.00
Common Cause	2019	$60,000.00
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota	2019	$50,000.00
Colorado People's Action	2019	$50,000.00
Communities Creating Opportunity Action	2019	$50,000.00
Mothering Justice Action Fund	2019	$50,000.00
National Democratic County Officials	2019	$50,000.00
Neo Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	2019	$50,000.00
Nevada Conservation League	2019	$50,000.00
One Apia Nevada	2019	$50,000.00
Renew Oregon Action Fund	2019	$50,000.00
Stand Up For Ohio	2019	$50,000.00
We The People Pennsylvania Action	2019	$50,000.00
Hopewell Fund	2019	$42,238.00
ProgressNow Colorado	2019	$40,000.00
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence	2019	$40,000.00
State Engagement Fund	2019	$35,000.00
Woman Project	2019	$35,000.00
ProgressNow	2019	$33,750.00
Maryland Family Network	2019	$30,707.00
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center	2019	$30,000.00
Ohioans for Making Every Vote Matter	2019	$30,000.00
Our Missouri Inc	2019	$27,300.00
Alliance for Retired Americans	2019	$25,000.00
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center	2019	$25,000.00
Change Now Inc	2019	$25,000.00
Coalition for DC Representation in Congress Education Fund	2019	$25,000.00
Georgia Engaged Inc	2019	$25,000.00
Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice	2019	$25,000.00
New Jersey Organizing Project	2019	$25,000.00
TakeAction Minnesota	2019	$25,000.00
Way to Win Action Fund	2019	$25,000.00
Progress Texas	2019	$24,000.00
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence	2019	$20,000.00
Cultivate Team LLC	2019	$20,000.00
Represent.Us	2019	$20,000.00
Young Women United	2019	$20,000.00
NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia	2019	$19,000.00
NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia	2019	$15,000.00
OneVirginia2021	2019	$10,677.00
Connecticut Citizen Action Group	2019	$10,000.00
Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund	2019	$10,000.00
Patrick Rynard DBA PRPR LLC	2019	$10,000.00
Progressive State Leaders Committee	2019	$10,000.00
Social Good Fund	2019	$6,000.00
America Votes	2018	$27,150,000.00
League of Conservation Voters	2018	$8,000,000.00
Nevadans for Secure elections	2018	$6,250,000.00
Count MI Vote	2018	$6,000,000.00
Raise up Missouri	2018	$4,241,000.00
Save Our Neighborhoods	2018	$3,500,000.00
Stop Deceptive Amendments	2018	$3,500,000.00
Change Now Inc.	2018	$2,822,500.00
Floridians for a Fair Democracy	2018	$2,650,000.00
Coloradans for Fairness	2018	$2,500,000.00
Coloradans to Stop Predatory Payday Loans	2018	$2,075,000.00
Michigan Time to Come	2018	$1,760,000.00
Fund for a Better Future Inc.	2018	$1,750,000.00
Arkansas for a Fair Wage	2018	$1,346,000.00
Environmental Defense Action Fund	2018	$1,000,000.00
Forward Majority Action	2018	$1,000,000.00
Good Jobs Colorado	2018	$920,000.00
State Engagement Fund	2018	$787,918.00
New Venture Fund	2018	$778,000.00
Alliance for Youth Action	2018	$750,000.00
Center for Popular Democracy	2018	$701,500.00
The Fairness Project	2018	$697,000.00
Justice Colorado	2018	$600,000.00
No Cuts to Care PAC	2018	$600,000.00
Coloradans Creating Opportunities	2018	$545,000.00
Center for American Progress	2018	$500,000.00
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign	2018	$500,000.00
Our Colorado Values	2018	$500,000.00
Florida for All, Inc.	2018	$480,000.00
North Carolina Citizens for Protecting our Schools	2018	$400,000.00
Environment America	2018	$357,300.00
Progress North Carolina Action	2018	$355,000.00
Progress Now	2018	$335,688.00
Kansas Values Institute	2018	$325,000.00
Maine People's Alliance	2018	$250,713.00
Color of Change Education Fund	2018	$250,000.00
Michigan League or Responsible Voters	2018	$250,000.00
Promote the Vote	2018	$250,000.00
Progress Michigan	2018	$240,000.00
Network	2018	$225,000.00
Make North Carolina First	2018	$223,000.00
American Bridge 21st Century	2018	$200,000.00
The Arena	2018	$200,000.00
ProgressNow Colorado	2018	$191,700.00
One PA	2018	$188,000.00
Vote No on Amendment 1, Inc.	2018	$150,000.00
Common Cause	2018	$125,000.00
Plan Action Fund	2018	$125,000.00
Casa In Action	2018	$100,000.00
Raise up Massachusetts	2018	$100,000.00
Secure Democracy	2018	$95,000.00
Arizona Wins	2018	$93,300.00
People's Action Institute	2018	$93,062.00
Battle Born Progress	2018	$90,000.00
Green Tech Action Fund	2018	$75,000.00
Momsrising together	2018	$75,000.00
Stand Up for Ohio	2018	$75,000.00
State Innovation Exchange	2018	$75,000.00
Working People of Colorado	2018	$75,000.00
State Employers Association of North Carolina	2018	$73,700.00
Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement	2018	$70,000.00
NC Justice Center	2018	$70,000.00
The Hopewell Fund	2018	$68,112.00
Fair Maps Colorado	2018	$68,000.00
West Virginia Citizen Action Group	2018	$55,000.00
Chirlaction Fund	2018	$50,000.00
Colorado People's Action	2018	$50,000.00
Community Voices Heard Power Inc.	2018	$50,000.00
Faith in Public Life Action Fund	2018	$50,000.00
hiladelphia Unemployment Project	2018	$50,000.00
Kingdom Mission Society	2018	$50,000.00
National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund	2018	$50,000.00
Promise Arizona in Action	2018	$50,000.00
The Movement Cooperative	2018	$46,250.00
Alaska Conservation Voters	2018	$43,500.00
Citizen Action of New York	2018	$40,000.00
Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates Inc.	2018	$40,000.00
Run For Something Action Fund	2018	$40,000.00
The Arc of the United States	2018	$40,000.00
American Cancer Society	2018	$30,000.00
The Advocacy Fund	2018	$27,000.00
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center	2018	$25,000.00
Care in Action, Inc.	2018	$25,000.00
PICO Action Fund	2018	$25,000.00
Stand Up America PAC	2018	$25,000.00
Women's Foundation of California	2018	$25,000.00
Citizen Action Illinois	2018	$20,000.00
ProgressOhio.org Inc.	2018	$20,000.00
Colorado Fiscal Institute	2018	$17,750.00
Jannus Inc.	2018	$17,750.00
Montana udget and Policy Center	2018	$17,750.00
ACT Indiana, Inc.	2018	$15,000.00
Social Good Fund	2018	$15,000.00
We the People of Florida, Inc.	2018	$15,000.00
Women's March, Inc.	2018	$15,000.00
Black Youth Project 100	2018	$12,500.00
Chicago International Social Change Film Festival	2018	$12,500.00
Tides Center	2018	$12,500.00
Urban Affairs Coalition	2018	$12,500.00
The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation	2018	$12,000.00
Citizen Action of New Jersey	2018	$10,500.00
Blue Institute Enterprises, Inc.	2018	$10,000.00
Collective Future	2018	$10,000.00
New Era Colorado Action Fund	2018	$10,000.00
Organize Now Inc.	2018	$10,000.00
Save the Children Action Network Inc.	2018	$10,000.00
Texas Organizing Project	2018	$10,000.00
Win Colorado	2018	$10,000.00
TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund	2018	$9,450.00
215 People's Alliance	2018	$8,500.00
Economic Policy Institute	2018	$6,000.00
40 Friends (We Care)	2018	$5,000.00
Action NC	2018	$5,000.00
Latino Victory Project	2018	$5,000.00
Missouri Jobs with Justice Voter Action	2018	$5,000.00
Pennsylvania Health Access Fund	2018	$5,000.00
League of Conservation Voters (LCV)	2017	$3,850,000.00
Partnership Project Action Fund	2017	$1,160,000.00
Environment America	2017	$1,100,000.00
Mainers for Health Care	2017	$800,000.00
Natural Resource Defense Council Action Fund	2017	$750,000.00
Raise Up Missouri	2017	$500,000.00
Michigan Time To Care	2017	$400,000.00
New Venture Fund	2017	$313,722.00
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network	2017	$310,846.00
Virginia New Majority	2017	$285,196.00
Black PAC	2017	$225,463.00
ProgressNow	2017	$221,500.00
New Jersey Working Families Alliance	2017	$215,000.00
Maine People's Alliance	2017	$215,000.00
Black Progressive Action Coalition	2017	$200,000.00
MoveOn Civic Action	2017	$170,000.00
Color of Change	2017	$150,000.00
New Florida Majority	2017	$150,000.00
Organizing for Action	2017	$150,000.00
Black Leadership Organizing Collaborative	2017	$150,000.00
Raise Up Massachusetts	2017	$110,000.00
Center for American Progress Action Fund	2017	$110,000.00
Kingdom Mission Society	2017	$105,000.00
Fair Share	2017	$100,000.00
Our Revolution	2017	$100,000.00
National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund	2017	$100,000.00
Faith In Public Life Action Fund	2017	$98,000.00
Working Families Organization	2017	$90,000.00
California Calls Action Fund	2017	$75,000.00
Center for Racial and Gender Equity	2017	$75,000.00
Citizen Action of New York	2017	$65,000.00
Citizen Action of New Jersey	2017	$65,000.00
MomsRising Together	2017	$60,000.00
Mijente	2017	$50,000.00
America Votes	2017	$50,000.00
Advance North Carolina Inc	2017	$50,000.00
West Virginia Citizen Action Group	2017	$50,000.00
NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc	2017	$41,907.00
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action	2017	$40,000.00
Promise Arizona In Action	2017	$40,000.00
Arizona Wins	2017	$30,196.00
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	2017	$30,000.00
Center for Community Change Action	2017	$28,000.00
Texas Organizing Project	2017	$25,000.00
Action Inc	2017	$25,000.00
Citizen Action Illinois	2017	$25,000.00
Missouri Jobs with Justice Voter Action	2017	$25,000.00
Arkansas Community Organizations	2017	$25,000.00
TakeAction Minnesota	2017	$25,000.00
Rights and Democracy Project	2017	$25,000.00
Organize Now Inc.	2017	$25,000.00
Washington Comm Action Network Education and Research Fund	2017	$25,000.00
Delawareans for Social and Economic Justice	2017	$25,000.00
Bread for the World	2017	$25,000.00
Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias and Ward PA	2017	$24,225.00
Arizonians for Fair Wage and Healthy Families	2017	$20,000.00
Missouri Impact Inc	2017	$15,000.00
Pennsylvania Health Access Fund	2017	$15,000.00
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc	2017	$15,000.00
Tennessee Citizen Alliance	2017	$15,000.00
ProgressNow Education	2017	$15,000.00
South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce	2017	$10,500.00
The Network	2017	$10,000.00
Center for Responsible Lending	2017	$10,000.00
US Black Chambers Inc	2017	$8,000.00
The Hopewell Fund	2017	$6,549.00
Battle Born Progress	2017	$5,714.00
Environmental Defense Action Fund	2016	$1,500,000.00
League of Conservation Voters	2016	$1,300,000.00
Partnership Project Action Fund	2016	$1,120,000.00
Civic Participation Action Fund	2016	$1,100,000.00
Environment America	2016	$1,100,000.00
Sierra Club	2016	$1,000,000.00
Every Voice	2016	$990,000.00
Center for Community Change Action	2016	$975,000.00
For Our Future Action Fund	2016	$600,000.00
Majority Forward	2016	$500,000.00
Media Matters Action Network	2016	$429,000.00
America Votes	2016	$400,000.00
New Venture Fund	2016	$379,964.00
State Engagement Fund	2016	$250,000.00
Colorado Families for a Fair Wage	2016	$224,500.00
Greater Wisconsin Committee Inc	2016	$207,750.00
Arizonians for Fair Wage and Healthy Families	2016	$190,000.00
Represent.Us	2016	$150,000.00
Center for American Progress Action Fund	2016	$125,000.00
New Virginia Majority	2016	$120,000.00
Organize Now Inc.	2016	$116,900.00
350 Action	2016	$100,000.00
Advance North Carolina Inc	2016	$100,000.00
Black Leadership Organizing Collaborative	2016	$100,000.00
Color of Change	2016	$100,000.00
New Florida Majority Education Fund	2016	$100,000.00
New Florida Majority Inc	2016	$100,000.00
Wisconsin Progress	2016	$100,000.00
Americans United For Change	2016	$98,860.00
Center for Racial and Gender Equity	2016	$50,000.00
LCV Political Engagement Fund	2016	$50,000.00
Make North Carolina First	2016	$50,000.00
Ohio Organizing Campaign	2016	$50,000.00
Voter Access Institute	2016	$50,000.00
Leadership Conference On Civil and Human Rights	2016	$49,000.00
Progressive Agenda Committee	2016	$48,500.00
Alaska Conservation Voters	2016	$47,500.00
Freedom for All Americans	2016	$37,326.00
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund	2016	$37,000.00
Emerge Wisconsin	2016	$35,000.00
Business Council of Alabama	2016	$30,000.00
Community Organizations In Action	2016	$25,917.00
Bus Federation Civic Fund	2016	$25,000.00
House Majority PAC	2016	$25,000.00
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law	2016	$25,000.00
New Futures Fund	2016	$25,000.00
NILC Immigration Fund	2016	$25,000.00
US Global Leadership Campaign	2016	$25,000.00
Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias and Ward PA	2016	$22,500.00
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc	2016	$20,000.00
Democratic Governors Association	2016	$20,000.00
Free Press Action Fund	2016	$20,000.00
Living United for Change In Arizona	2016	$20,000.00
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin Inc	2016	$20,000.00
Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters	2016	$20,000.00
Working Families Organization	2016	$20,000.00
All Hands On Deck Network Inc	2016	$18,000.00
ProgressNow	2016	$15,000.00
One Wisconsin Now	2016	$14,000.00
We Are Wisconsin	2016	$14,000.00
People for the American Way	2016	$11,073.00
Enviornmental Advocates of New York	2016	$10,000.00
Maine People's Alliance	2016	$10,000.00
Raise Up Washington	2016	$10,000.00
Working Families Party National Independent Expenditure Committee	2016	$10,000.00
South Dakotans for Responsible Lending	2016	$9,800.00
No On U	2016	$6,000.00
Fight for the Future Education Fund	2016	$5,000.00
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	2015	$1,925,000.00
The Partnership Project Action Fund	2015	$1,450,000.00
Environmental Defense Fund	2015	$675,000.00
Center for Community Change Action	2015	$610,000.00
Fair Share	2015	$550,000.00
Environment America	2015	$475,000.00
Free Press Action Fund	2015	$125,000.00
Americans for Tax Fairness Act	2015	$100,000.00
Stand for Children Louisiana Inc	2015	$80,000.00
350 Dot Org Action Fund	2015	$75,000.00
Color of Change Education Fund	2015	$75,000.00
Freedom for All Americans	2015	$75,000.00
United Working Families	2015	$75,000.00
Louisiana Federation for Children PAC	2015	$70,000.00
Demand Progress Action	2015	$55,000.00
Earth Day Network	2015	$55,000.00
Center for Rights in Action Inc.	2015	$50,000.00
Color of Change	2015	$40,000.00
The Public Investigator	2015	$28,578.00
SumOfUS	2015	$25,000.00
US Global Leadership Campaign	2015	$25,000.00
Pineros Campesinos Unidos	2015	$20,000.00
Presente Action	2015	$20,000.00
Citizen Action of Wisconsin	2015	$14,000.00
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin Inc	2015	$14,000.00
Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters	2015	$14,000.00
New Progressive Network	2015	$13,000.00
Bread for the World	2015	$12,500.00
Church World Service	2015	$12,500.00
Northwest Health Foundation	2015	$10,000.00
One Nation Forward	2015	$5,000.00
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	2014	$1,450,000.00
The Partnership Project Action Fund	2014	$1,250,000.00
Environmental Defense Action Fund	2014	$1,200,000.00
Sierra Club	2014	$900,000.00
Patriot Majority USA	2014	$660,000.00
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions	2014	$500,000.00
American Wind Energy Association	2014	$350,000.00
Texas Organizing Project	2014	$290,000.00
Mi Familia Vota	2014	$270,000.00
America Votes	2014	$265,000.00
Center for American Progress	2014	$250,000.00
Florida New Majority	2014	$215,000.00
Color of Change	2014	$200,000.00
Center for Rights in Action Inc.	2014	$180,000.00
NAACP National Voter Fund	2014	$150,000.00
National Council of La Raza Action Fund	2014	$140,000.00
Stand Up for Ohio	2014	$115,000.00
CA Calls Action Fund	2014	$100,000.00
Voter Access Institute	2014	$100,000.00
Ohio Organizing Campaign	2014	$90,000.00
New Progressive Network	2014	$85,000.00
Higher Heights for America	2014	$75,000.00
National Action Network	2014	$75,000.00
Power PAC Org.	2014	$70,000.00
Advancement Project	2014	$50,000.00
Blueprint NC	2014	$50,000.00
Latino Victory Project - A Project of the New Venture Fund	2014	$50,000.00
Organize Now Inc.	2014	$50,000.00
People for the American Way	2014	$50,000.00
Pineros Campesinos Unidos	2014	$50,000.00
State Voices	2014	$45,000.00
Georgia Equality Inc.	2014	$35,000.00
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote Action	2014	$30,000.00
Wisconsin Voices	2014	$30,000.00
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund	2014	$25,000.00
Circ Action Fund	2014	$25,000.00
New Era Colorado Action Fund	2014	$25,000.00
The People's Lobby	2014	$25,000.00
Virginia New Majority	2014	$25,000.00
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization	2014	$20,000.00
Florida Planned Parenthood	2014	$15,000.00
MOSES	2014	$15,000.00
TakeAction Minnesota	2014	$15,000.00
Bread for the World	2014	$12,500.00
Church World Service	2014	$12,500.00
Utahns for Public Lands and Recreation	2014	$12,045.00
A. Philip Randolph Institute	2014	$10,000.00
Equality Florida Action	2014	$10,000.00
Kick	2014	$10,000.00
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	2014	$10,000.00
New Voices Pittsburgh	2014	$10,000.00
ADA	2014	$7,500.00
ICAN	2014	$7,500.00
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement	2014	$7,500.00
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	2013	$850,000.00
State Voices	2013	$180,000.00
Wellstone Action	2013	$150,000.00
A Whole Lot of People for John Morse	2013	$35,000.00
New Venture Fund	2013	$35,000.00
Pueblo United For Angela	2013	$35,000.00
Amnesty International USA	2013	$25,000.00
ProgressNow	2013	$12,500.00

Consulting and Management Fees

Between 2009 and 2019, Sixteen Thirty Fund paid almost $48 million in contracting and management fees to other organizations, notably Arabella Advisors, the for-profit company closely associated with Sixteen Thirty Fund and its “sister” nonprofits. ^[118]

Sixteen Thirty Fund Contractors
Contractor	Total (2009-2019)
SKDKnickerbocker	$10,618,536
Arabella Advisors	$9,537,923
Buying Time LLC	$6,693,226
Targeted Platform Media	$5,396,502
Blueprint Interactive	$2,887,800
Mothership Strategies LLC	$2,415,000
Ethica Media LLC	$1,739,975
Screen Strategies Media	$1,500,525
Revolution Messaging LLC	$1,287,619
OTG Strategies Inc	$1,015,000
Block By Block Inc	$527,950
K&L Gates	$450,740
Precision Strategies	$1,643,068
Democracy Alliance	$400,000
Information Staffing Services	$339,548
US Action	$264,500
Freedman Consulting LLC	$235,000
Arabella Philanthropic Investment	$162,604
Community Organizations in Action	$151,500
Americans for Democratic Action	$132,500
Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC	$126,000
Seligman Consulting	$108,350
The Konkurrenz Group	$108,000
The Atlas Project	$107,250
Sum	$47,849,116

In 2019, the Sixteen Thirty Fund paid its highest contractor, Arabella Advisors, $3.5 million in administration, operations, and management services fees. Other major contractors included Mothership Strategies LLC ($2.4 million), Screen Strategies Media ($1.5 million), Precision Strategies ($1.2 million), and OTG Strategies ($1.02 million). ^[119]

In 2018, the Sixteen Thirty Fund paid its highest contractor, Targeted Platform Media, $5.4 million in consulting fees. Other major contractors paid that year include Arabella Advisors at $3.5 million; SKDKickerbocker at $3.3 million; Buying Time LLC at $3 million; and Blueprint Interactive at $2.9 million. ^[120]

In 2017, the Sixteen Thirty Fund paid its highest contractor, SKDKnickerbocker, $7.1 million in consulting fees. The other highest contractors for that year include Buying Time LLC, which received $3.7 million; Arabella Advisors, for $2.1 million; Ethica Media, for $1.7 million; and Revolution Messaging, for $1.3 million. ^[121]

In 2016, the Sixteen Thirty Fund paid $400,000 in consulting fees to the left-wing Democracy Alliance. It also hired Arabella Advisors, which was paid $789,891 in consulting fees; SKDKnickerbocker for $268,944; Block By Block, Inc. for $527,950; and Precision Strategies for $435,141. ^[122]

Financial Documents

The Sixteen Thirty Fund’s Application for Recognition of Exemption (Form 1024) was filed with the IRS on August 31, 2009, and is available here.

The Sixteen Thirty Fund’s IRS Form 990 filings for 2016-2020 were obtained by the Capital Research Center and are available here:

• 2020 Form 990
• 2019 Form 990
• 2018 Form 990
• 2017 Form 990
• 2016 Form 990

The Sixteen Thirty Fund’s lobbying disclosure (LD-2) form is available here.

The Sixteen Thirty Fund’s IRS 1024 application for recognition of tax exempt status by the IRS is available here; the file also includes:

• a description of Sixteen Thirty Fund’s charitable activities as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, including a “public communications program,” limited lobbying activity, “organizational coalition building,” “community leadership development,” and “grassroots lobbying and non-partisan civic engagement”;
• the nonprofit’s founding board of directors (Eric Kessler, Brian Kathman, and Molly McUsic), as well as their “qualifications”;
• a list of the Fund’s initial grantees: Americans United for Change, USAction, Working America, ACORN, and the Sierra Club;
• Sixteen Thirty Fund’s articles of incorporation filed with the District of Columbia on February 19, 2009;
• the nonprofit’s bylaws; and
• an administrative agreement between the Sixteen Thirty Fund and Arabella Advisors, authorizing the latter to provide paid management services to the former.

The Sixteen Thirty Fund received recognition of its tax exempt status from the IRS on August 31, 2009; the letter is available here.