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Arabella Advisors
11 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-18
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About Arabella Advisors
Eric Kessler is verifiably Arabella Advisors' founder and an earlier Sixteen Thirty president/chair.
From Who directs Sixteen Thirty Fund: board, officers, disclosed staff, and limits of the public organizational chart (2026-09-18). Recorded status: 2024 filing verified; current president confirmed; complete 2026 board not verified New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.
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Eric Kessler's NDI biography identifies him as Arabella Advisors' founder, a former League of Conservation Voters national field director and a Clinton-era White House appointee on conservation issues.
Separately, Stremlau's own current consulting biography states that she previously served as head of the fiscal sponsorship practice at Arabella Advisors; another professional biography describes her as a former Arabella Associate Managing Director who developed, incubated, launched and provided operational infrastructure to hundreds of charitable initiatives.
The University of Maryland School of Public Policy reported in 2019 that Meyers (MPP 2016) had been promoted to Associate Director, Managed Organizations at Arabella Advisors.
The same 2024 filing reports a $2,750,000 grant to Western Futures Fund for 'civil rights, social action, advocacy.' Schedule O separately states that Sixteen Thirty contracted with Arabella Advisors under an administrative agreement to provide business and administrative services, including systems/services for federal, state and local compliance, HR, payroll and other administrative functions.
First, the National Democratic Institute biography of Arabella Advisors founder Eric Kessler states that he served as a White House appointee helping manage conservation issues during the Clinton administration and serves on the board of the 1630 Fund.
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Organizations
Hopewell Fund
Stated in published researchHopewell Fund's FY2024 Form 990 reports about $9.3 million paid to Arabella Advisors for administrative and operational support; shared service providers do not direct grantmaking by themselves.
Read record and sources →New Venture Fund
Stated in published researchNew Venture Fund's FY2024 Schedule O says it contracted with Arabella Advisors for administrative, compliance, HR and payroll services.
Read record and sources →Sixteen Thirty Fund
Stated in published researchSixteen Thirty Fund's filings identify Arabella Advisors as an administrative-services provider and books-and-records contact; this does not establish grant decision control.
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People
- Eric Kessler · 3 shared records
- Jonah Meyers · 3 shared records
- Amy Kurtz · 2 shared records
- Molly McUsic · 2 shared records
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Research finding · 2026-09-18Who directs Sixteen Thirty Fund: board, officers, disclosed staff, and limits of the public organizational chart
Recorded status: 2024 filing verified; current president confirmed; complete 2026 board not verified
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