Nonprofit
Berger Action Fund (501(c)(4))
Documented money flows
- Berger Action Fund (501(c)(4)) to Sixteen Thirty Fund (501(c)(4)), grant, $208,000,000, 2016-2023 (as reported). Exhibit 924
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- POL-5.9: ProPublica and The Lever reported, following The New York Times, that Barre Seid was the source of the $1.6 billion that Marble Freedom Trust received. The Associated Press reported that groups funded by Hansjorg Wyss gave Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund $245 million since 2016, including $208 million to Sixteen Thirty Fund.
- POL-5.11: The FEC ended enforcement matters against groups on both sides without finding violations. It split 3 to 3 in MUR 6396 and MUR 6696 (Crossroads GPS) and MUR 6589 (American Action Network); in MUR 7904 (Wyss, Berger Action Fund, Wyss Foundation, New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund) it voted 6 to 0 to dismiss the political-committee allegations and split 3 to 3 and 2 to 4 on the foreign-national and name-of-another allegations.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 906 certification 28 July 2022. Federal Election Commission: MUR 7904, Hansjorg Wyss et al. (complainant Americans for Public Trust)
- Exhibit 924 3 April 2023. Associated Press: Group steers Swiss billionaire's money to liberal causes (Brian Slodysko)