The New Liberal Mega Donor
How the Arnold Foundation
is funding the left
and harming our country
Meet John Arnold, the billionaire behind Arnold Ventures LLC
John Arnold’s massive Wall Street fortune enabled him to establish the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures LLC ) with his wife in 2008. Since then, the power couple have leveraged the program to flex their muscles publicly, doling out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants. As of 2023, the foundation reported holdings of more than $4.3 billion, up from around $2.2 billion from just a few years earlier. Philanthropy is wonderful gift, but not when the Arnolds are motivated by their own self-interest. The Arnolds may use their foundation to limit taxes and pursue policies to benefit their own largesse. Worse yet, the former hedge fund trader often pursues destructive solutions to fix societal problems without regard to those impacted, including crime victims, nontraditional college students, and even regular Americans who want to live with their Constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy.6 things you need to know about John Arnold
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Arnold Spent Millions Supporting Soft On Crime Policies
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Is a Leading Funder of Gun Control
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Supports a Cadre of Faux Conservatives
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Targeting Career Colleges
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Arnold Foundation Employee Caught Self-Dealing
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Runs revolving door of Obama/Biden bureaucrat
Scott Walter, president of the conservative nonprofit Capital Research Center
"The groups Arnold funds peddle utopian pipe dreams under the guise of progressive reform. But the victims won't be billionaires like him."
What You Need to Know
October 3, 2025
Arnold Ventures Spends Millions of Dollars on Groups Supporting Soft on Crime Policies.
We constantly see these protests where Antifa terrorists and other professional thugs burn cities and attack law-abiding citizens, and nothing ever seems to happen to them. Why these terrorists never end up in jail isn't hard to figure out, it's a…
October 3, 2025
John Arnold and his Arnold Ventures is one of the leading funders of gun grabbers in the nation.
Arnold Ventures is the funder of the nation's leading gun control research institute. For years they have been supporting the deceptively named Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention (ARMS) Institute at UConn. It is a well of…
October 3, 2025
Arnold Ventures Employs a Cadre of Faux Conservatives
John Arnold is is smart enough to know that he'll be more effective if he does not look like a foam-ing at the mouth leftist. To that end, he's hired a bunch of mercenary lobbyist who have monetized prior connections…
November 16, 2023
John Arnold’s Shady Past
Enron Origins Senior Enron executives served hard jail time and shareholders lost $74 billion dollars during the 2001 collapse of the infamous energy trading giant. Enron’s crooked accounting ultimately wiped out more than $1.5 billion in retirement savings for firefighters,…
October 30, 2023
Arnold Foundation Employee Caught Self-Dealing
Denis Calabrese, the former president of Arnold Ventures (f/k/a Laura and John Arnold Foundation) for eight years, according to a lawsuit alleging that he recieved millions of dollars of fund from kickbacks he received from grants he distributed as president…
October 25, 2023
Runs revolving door of Obama/Biden bureaucrats
John & Laura Arnold have quicky mastered The Old Washington Game by funding a revolving door of activists that move between developing liberal ideas in the Arnold’s progressive ivy tower, then orchestrating them in government positions, before returning to the…
October 25, 2023
Contempt for Nontraditional College Students
The Arnolds likely know little about the role that career colleges play, including educating first-generation, veteran, fulltime employed, and minority students in much higher proportions than traditional four-year universities. Yet Arnold Ventures is the largest single funder working to shut…
October 25, 2023
A Dangerous Experiment To Help Criminals
Billionaire John Arnold is supporting experiments in policing that make our streets less safe. Arnold Ventures’ Public Safety Assessment tool (PSA) purports to help suspected criminals achieve “higher rates of pretrial release” by using an “objective” algorithm. The releasing suspected…
October 25, 2023
Push For Unconstitutional Spying
Even as Arnold promotes soft-on-crime bail policies, he uses rising crime to push for unprecedented government surveillance, despite the shocking revelation in recent years of systemic surveillance abuses of government intelligence agencies. Under the guise of “security,” these agencies launched…
May 5, 2023
Arnold donated millions of dollars to abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood
Although Arnold vows that he is not a liberal, he has funded abortion groups on a massive scale, showing a total disregard for the lives of the unborn. Arnold donated millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood Arnold donated millions of…
March 5, 2023
Arnold funds radical leftist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a radical leftist organization dedicated to smearing, harassing, and canceling those they don’t like. They’re activities have been so extreme and outlandish that they were forced to apologize several times, including to former…
February 5, 2023
Arnold funds anti-law-enforcement ally of Black Lives Matter
As part of Arnold’s war on law enforcement, Arnold Ventures has funded the Misdemeanor Justice Project, an anti-police group whose activities include tracking “Stop, Question, And Frisk” Actions By The New York Police Department. Data Collaborative for Justice has also…
January 13, 2023
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