Wednesdata: The Clinton Foundation's Total Revenue

[Trivia: What do the letters in W’s TARP program stand for?]

With all this talk of criminal enterprises and influence peddling, I was curious what the trajectory was of money taken in by the Clinton Foundation over time. ProPublica has a handy page linking to copies of all of the 990 tax forms filed by the foundation in the 2 decades since its founding, so I copied the “Total Revenue” figures from those and graphed them:

A better graph would adjust for inflation, but I think the movements are dramatic enough that that doesn’t really impact it.

I think the biggest thing that surprised me was that the big drop from 2016, when Hillary was all but guaranteed the White House, to 2017, was exactly in line with a slump that started back leaving 2014. I don’t know how to account for that. Mostly this tells the story of a non-profit that was founded, ramped up high and fast, and has had a surprising amount of up and down movement in annual revenue since then, not really aligning tightly with political stars—although it is true that no year since 2016 has matched that year’s revenue.

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Answer: Troubled Asset Relief Program.