The Institute for Health Policy Accountability (IHPA), an independent authority on key drivers of decision-making in the health care space, today released a new edition in its ongoing series of accountability reports, this time exposing Arnold Ventures’ financial support for left-leaning organizations that advocate providing taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants, directly at odds with the priorities of President Trump and Congressional Republicans.

The new research details how Arnold Ventures publicly claims to “work across the political spectrum to build durable, bipartisan coalitions,” while its funding tells an entirely different story. Since 2020, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation has directed nearly $10 million to Washington, D.C.-based think tanks and advocacy groups that have consistently pushed to expand federal and state health benefits to illegal immigrants, the same policies Congressional Democrats were willing to shut down the federal government for 43 days to protect.

Key findings from the IHPA research include:

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Arnold has provided more than $2 million in funding since 2020.
  • CBPP authored a report arguing that an “inclusive approach to immigrants who are undocumented can help families and states prosper,” explicitly calling for expanded health coverage to undocumented children as “a strong first step towards access to health care coverage for all.”
  • The organization has criticized President Trump’s immigration enforcement since his first term, describing his administration’s actions as having “created a climate of fear” among undocumented immigrant families.
• Brookings Institution: Arnold has provided more than $5.7 million in funding since 2020
  • Brookings proposed expanding federally funded community health centers to provide primary care to illegal immigrants and explicitly called for expanding Medicaid eligibility to undocumented immigrants as part of COVID-19 legislation.
• National Partnership for Women and Families: Arnold has provided $643,583 in funding since 2020
  • NPWF called on Congress to pass the HEAL Act to ensure “all immigrants, regardless of status, have access to public and affordable health coverage.”
• Center for American Progress: Arnold has provided more than $1.5 million in funding since 2020
  • CAP proposed multiple workarounds to extend public health coverage to the undocumented population, including granting citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants.
• PrEP4All: Arnold has provided nearly $120,000 in funding since 2020
  • PrEP4All released a 2024 plan for a federally funded national PrEP program explicitly designed to provide free HIV medication to illegal immigrants through a “PrEP Pass” requiring minimal paperwork and no financial eligibility verification.

Read the full report here.

The Institute for Health Policy Accountability is an independent authority on key drivers of decision making in the health care space. IHPA provides fact-based research and analysis across the public policy landscape, adding a central and currently missing voice to the conversation.

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