By Jacob Fenton | Sunlight Foundation
The nonprofit fundraising arm of Arizona State University gave $100,000 to a shadowy political group that spent at least $2.4 million on TV ads attacking state candidates who sided with the solar industry during last year’s election.
The Arizona State University Foundation raised more than $165 million in its 2014 fiscal year, and handed out $66 million in grants, nearly all of it to Arizona State University. The only grant the foundation made that year that didn’t go to a school or a charitable nonprofit was given to a “social welfare” nonprofit called “Save Our Future Now” — identified in the foundation’s tax forms only as “SOFN” — for $100,000.
