Inside the Arabella Advisors Network: The Dark Money Architecture Behind American Progressive Causes In November 2025, the Washington, D.C. consulting firm Arabella Advisors announced that its core fiscal-sponsorship business had been acquired by a newly formed entity called Sunflower Services. Arabella itself was renamed Vital Impact. The reorganization affected the largest and most active donor-advisory operation in American progressive politics...

How Far Does It Go? The Wider History of Nonprofits Paying Informants Inside Extremist Groups The April 21, 2026 federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has prompted a broader question that reaches well beyond a single organization: how widespread is the practice of advocacy nonprofits paying confidential informants inside the groups they publicly oppose, and what other organizations...