CRC News: Minnesota scams & Arabella’s decline

Washington Examiner—The fall and rise of the Left’s premier dark money network

Capital Research Center president Scott Walter and researcher Paker Thayer are quoted extensively in an analysis of the shuttering and rebranding of the Arabella Advisors network.

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The Federalist—Here’s How Professional Activists Use Guerrilla Tactics To Sabotage ICE Arrests

According to nonprofit tracker InfluenceWatch, the ICIRR raked in more than $80.4 million in revenue in 2023, with more than $77 million in government grants. Yes, the taxpayer is paying for this seething leftist “nonprofit.”

“The left loves to train people in what they call ‘direct action’, which almost always can be translated as lawbreaking. It’s not a tactic that is good for our country and lawbreaking is not something that nonprofit groups should be encouraging or funding,” said Parker Thayer, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, which operates InfluenceWatch.

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National Association of Scholars—The Left’s Funding Network Is Its Power

Review of Arabella: The Dark Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America, the book written by CRC president Scott Walter:

Through his investigative acumen, Walter dissipates the fog around politicized leftwing philanthropy by linking what would otherwise be a list of bland-sounding organizations to dollar amounts and individuals. Readers will be shocked at the neo-aristocratic nature of this network, which brought in $6.5 billion between 2006 and 2021.

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The National News Desk (video)—Scott Walter Discusses NGO Accountability as Minnesota Investigation Expands

As federal investigators describe the Minnesota nonprofit scandal as “the tip of a very large iceberg,” questions are growing about oversight, transparency, and accountability for taxpayer-funded NGOs. In this interview, Capital Research Center President Scott Walter joins The National News Desk to discuss CRC’s long-standing research into taxpayer-funded nonprofits, his testimony before Congress and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and what the Minnesota investigation could mean nationwide. Walter explains why cooperation between state, local, and federal law enforcement is critical, how lack of transparency allowed problems to go unnoticed for years, and why the core principle is simple: organizations that receive taxpayer dollars must be able to clearly show they are helping people.

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Daily Caller— Leftist Nonprofit Behemoth Got $37.8 Million In Taxpayer Money In Year Before Trump’s Return

An InfluenceWatch social media post is featured:

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Kansas Informer—Kansas Reflector’s Soros-connected parent collects record cash in 2024, but loses even more

Despite denials by Reflector staffers, public records show Soros’ philanthropic network, primarily the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and its affiliates, made significant grants to the D.C.-based Arabella Advisors network of 501c3 funds over recent years. These grants have included contributions to several Arabella-managed non-profits including the Hopewell Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, and others, according to the Capital Research Center. The Hopewell Fund incubated and provided direct financial support to States Newsrooms until SN obtained its own 501c3 in 2019.

According to financial data aggregated from public filings and reported by Capital Research Center, Open Society Foundations entities gave tens of millions to Arabella-managed nonprofits from 2018 through 2022, with a notable portion going to the Hopewell Fund (around $16.8 million in that period). States Newsrooms claims to receive no present funding from Hopewell, but lists the similarly-leftist focused Wyss Foundation among its major funders. Wyss has demonstrated financial and partnership ties to Arabella and its funds, as well as others pressing climate and other political initiatives.

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Independent Sentinel—The People Behind the Pro-Maduro Protests

Back to the major funder, Neville Roy Singham. Singham and his wife reside in Shanghai, and his business partners are members of the Chinese Communist Party, per Influence Watch.

The CCP Is Heavily Involved

Singham denies having a relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. What else is he going to say?

According to Influence Watch, he has praised Maoism.