Key Findings:

• This Center for Public Integrity investigation examined ballot initiatives required property owners to be compensated for regulations that diminish the value of their holdings — and the web of stealth organizations funding them.

• This 2006 project looked at the forces behind ballot initiatives in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington and discovered that they shared something in common: The vast majority of their funding came from a series of interrelated organizations and committees all tied to the same few political activists—and that many of those organizations were operating illegally.