The largest left-wing dark money network across the United States steered hundreds of thousands of dollars to an anti-Israel charity that fiscally sponsors a Palestinian-terror linked group, tax forms reveal.
The New Venture Fund and Windward Fund, two nonprofit groups managed by Arabella Advisors, gave Alliance for Global Justice $263,000 combined in 2021, according to newly released tax documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner. AFGJ sponsors several groups behind the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel, including Samidoun, an Israeli-designated terrorist organization.
AFGJ received $38,000 from the New Venture Fund in 2021 for “environmental programs,” and the Windward Fund gave it $225,000 for “environmental programs,” according to tax forms.
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A spokesperson for the New Venture Fund told the Washington Examiner the money it gave to AFGJ went to Philly Thrive, a climate group it fiscally sponsors. “It was made for the explicit purpose of helping clean up and repurpose land in Philadelphia that once housed an oil refinery,” said the spokesperson.
On the other hand, a Windward Fund spokesperson told the Washington Examiner the money it gave to AFGJ was directed to a group it fiscally sponsors “to support environmental cleanup of a site in New York City.”
Arabella, which manages five nonprofit groups, including the New Venture Fund and the Windward Fund, is a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm. The firm, which hauled in over $1.5 billion in 2021, has been dubbed a “dark money” behemoth. This is because the five nonprofit groups, which do not publicize their donors, sponsor other organizations that are not required to file tax forms.
In recent years, Arabella has expanded its operations to push left-wing political causes. In September, the company acquired the New York-based Kiwi Partners, an accounting and consulting firm that an Arabella spokesman told Fox News “deepens Arabella’s capacity to support the nonprofit sector.”
The New Venture Fund is the largest group in the Arabella network, and it raked in $955 million in 2021 while spending $553 million. The Windward Fund, an environmental group, hauled in $273 million and spent $72 million.
“Arabella Advisors is proud of the work we do for all of our clients, including our nonprofit clients who hire us to provide HR, legal, payroll, and other administrative services,” a spokesman for Arabella told the Washington Examiner. “We will continue to support our clients with best-in-class service and expertise in the future.”
AFGJ, which also got $210,000 from the New Venture Fund in 2020, is based in Arizona. The self-billed “progressive” and “anti-capitalist” group is an offshoot of the Nicaragua Network, a group that backed the socialist Sandinista political regime in Nicaragua.
Samidoun, which is one of up to 130 projects that AFGJ sponsors, was designated a terrorist group by Israel in February 2021 for operating as an arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Samidoun aims to free Palestinian prisoners, who in many cases have ties to the PFLP, according to NGO Monitor, an Israeli watchdog group.
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy found in a 2019 report that one Samidoun activist was “trained by” the Islamist terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon. That activist allegedly paid money to PFLP activists in Belgium.
On the heels of this report, Mastercard, Visa, and American Express said they would not allow their services to be used by Samidoun. Similarly, Paypal, Plaid, and Donorbox, three major global payment providers, shut down online donation portals for Samidoun in 2019 because of its PFLP ties.
In October, the Netherlands banned Samidoun’s leaders from entering the European Union. Discover, the credit card company, said in 2021 it would quit processing donations to AFGJ because of its ties to Samidoun.
“If you have a mechanism that enables regular Americans to give money to a terrorist organization, that is a problem,” Itai Reuveni, a spokesman for NGO Monitor, told the Washington Examiner.
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In 2021, Arabella raked in roughly $47 million for operations, management, and administrative services for its five nonprofit funds, tax records show.
“We hire Arabella Advisors to provide administrative, compliance, accounting, human resources, and grant-processing support. New Venture Fund and our projects make our own strategic, programmatic, or funding decisions, not any outside contractor,” said a spokesperson for the New Venture Fund.
AFGJ did not respond to a request for comment.
