Scott Walter and his book "Arabella" | Capital Research Center / Encounter Books
Scott Walter and his book "Arabella" | Capital Research Center / Encounter Books
Scott Walter, in his book, “Arabella,” said the nonprofit pyramid structure Arabella, created by Eric Kessler, allows left leaning donors to contribute to political campaigns or causes "without being seen" by donation tracking.
Published in 2024, “Arabella" is about how large donations from political megadonors are concealed to hide how they are funding and directing political trends and groups in America.
Following is the excerpt from “Arabella”:
These in-house nonprofits provide a powerful advantage to big-dollar donors: Those nonprofits can create “pop-up” groups designed to do the donors’ bidding, but those groups can only be traced back to one of the in-house nonprofits Arabella runs. Because each of the in-house nonprofits runs many pop-up front groups, no one will ever know which big donor was paying for a particular group when he or she wrote a check to, say, New Venture Fund. These hundreds of front groups form the base of the Arabella pyramid, and the pyramid, as a whole, enables donors to fund the “progressive” political causes they want without being seen wading into grubby activism.
"Arabella" can be found on Encounter Books' website.
Walter is the president of Capital Research Center, a think tank that focuses on how large organizations spend their money. He previously served under the George W. Bush Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and a vice president for the Philanthropy Roundtable. He was also a senior fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and a senior editor of AEI’s publication. Walter graduated from Georgetown and lives with his wife and four children in Virginia.
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