I'm Sarah Lee, and this is the Influence Watch podcast.

Arabella advisors, we hardly knew you.

The once obscure multi-billion dollar private equity-owned machine of leftist funding has gone

the way of the dinosaurs, or has it? Arabella, an organization we here at

CRC, worked diligently to help bring into the light, has in fact, after being rather publicly

and unceremoniously dumped by the Gates Foundation in June, simply split, been restructured,

been sold, and or rebranded, depending on your perspective.

The two new entities born of Arabella's demise are Sunflower Services, a public benefit corporation,

and vital impact, a philanthropic consulting firm that most resembles the former dark money machine.

The three C3 workhorse nonprofits housed under the former

Arabella, who often served as fiscal sponsors for other nonprofits and from which the funding flowed,

that's the New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund, are now investors in the aforementioned

Sunflower Services and have vowed to continue the work of

helping leftist nonprofits accomplish their goals on everything from DEI to abortion to social

justice. But there are many questions remaining, with perhaps the most interesting, what happens to

Arabella's most political entities, the C-4s, notably the notorious 1630 fund, and what prompted

them to make this momentous change. Here to help shine a light are my colleagues, Mike Watson,

Parker Thayer, and Robert Stilson. Hi, guys. Hello. Hello. Hey. Hey. Okay.

So I'm going to just kind of throw this at you guys and I'm going to let you guys talk just

for the listeners.

We're trying a thing here where we're going to, once a month we're going to kind of showcase

our researchers and have them just kind of talk about things that we're working on.

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