Eric Kessler

Eric Kessler is the founder and senior managing director of Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based for-profit consulting company that advises left-leaning donors and nonprofits about where to give and serves as the hub of a politically liberal "dark money" network.[1]

Eric J. Kessler
EducationUniversity of Colorado
Georgetown University
OccupationFounder of Arabella Advisors
Board member ofNational Democratic Institute
Sixteen Thirty Fund

Background

Kessler's family owned Fel-Pro, an auto-parts manufacturer in the Chicago area. They sold the company for $750 million when Kessler was 26 years old.[2] Kessler worked for the Family Alliance Foundation, a philanthropic organization formed with some of the proceeds of the Fel-Pro sale. Kessler also worked for the League of Conservation Voters. He was a United States Department of the Interior appointee during the presidency of Bill Clinton. He then spent six years working for the National Democratic Institute. In 2005, Kessler founded Arabella Advisors.[2] Since its founding, Arabella Advisors has distributed billions of dollars to various liberal political causes.[3]

Kessler was the president and board chair of the Hopewell Fund at its September 2015 founding.[4]

See also

References
  1. Bland, Scott; Severns, Maggie (November 19, 2019). "Documents reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018". Politico. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  2. ""Be the Change" an Interview with Arabella Advisors' Eric Kessler". Philanthropy New York. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  3. Birnbaum, Emily (15 August 2023). "US 'Dark Money' Donor Groups Accuse Each Other of Abusing System". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  4. "Hopewell Fund (2015 Form 990)". ProPublica. 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
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