"Dark money" behind ads encouraging Kansas Senator Moran to support energy tax credits
Are government energy subsidies a good idea?
“Dark money” Arabella Advisors’ Sixteen Thirty Fund sent grants to American Energy Action, directly and indirectly, in recent years as documented in IRS tax filings.
American Energy Action is currently running Facebook and TV ads for Kansas Senator Moran to support energy tax credits in Trump’s “big beautiful spending bill.”
Ten years ago the Heritage Foundation gave “5 Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Keep Subsidizing Wind And Solar Energy.”
…in the long run, subsidies actually hurt the very industries they’re supposed to help by disincentivizing innovation and making U.S. companies less competitive at home and abroad
IRS 990s
Sixteen Thirty Fund
In 2021 the Arabella Advisors’ Sixteen Thirty Fund gave grants to both American Energy Action and the Energy Action Fund.
Any grants given for ads in 2025 may be known by late 2026 at the earliest because of lax reporting requirements to the IRS by nonprofits.
Energy Action Fund
In 2002 the Energy Action Fund received $75,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund but sent $100,000 to American Energy Action.
Related
Wind, Solar, and Washington’s Wasteful Subsidies, Sarah Wagoner, Economic Policy Innovation Center, July 1, 2025.
Last year Johnson County Board Chair Mike Kelly’s PAC received $85,000 from an organization named Local Jobs & Economic Development Fund, which was a nonprofit receiving funding from the Energy Action Fund and dark money Tides Advocacy and Tides Foundation.
Wow, Earl, apparently running out of content? sad.