A ‘dark money’ nonprofit run by one of Black Lives Matter’s founders received $2.5million in donations from a Silicon Valley foundation in 2020, new tax filings have revealed.
Forms filed last month show that Dignity and Power Now – a Los Angeles-based grassroots agency headed by BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors – secured $4.2million in donations in 2020, with the bulk of that sum coming from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a multibillion-dollar fund based in the Bay Area.
The firm, which bills itself as ‘a donor-advised community foundation serving the Silicon Valley region,’ is one of the largest funds in the country, and received $2.1 billion in contributions in 2020 alone, tax records show.
Moreover, the high-powered fund is linked to some of the biggest names in the Valley, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, who have all contributed cash to the sizable foundation.
Patrice Cullors dark-money nonprofit has obtained $2.5m in donations from a woke Silicon Valley fund whose benefactors include some of tech’s richest tycoons
Cullors Dignity & Power Now obtained more than $2.5m from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
There’s no suggestion any of those tech tycoons donated directly to Cullors’ nonprofit, or of learning whose donations made their way into her charity.
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Cullors, 38, who resigned last May from the activist group in the wake of revelations she’d spent millions on a slew of lavish homes using donated funds, has not commented on the contribution, which amounts to $2.5million, records show.
The ‘dark money’ designation used to describe Cullors’ nonprofit – which was reportedly used to buy BLM brass a 6,500-square-foot mansion in 2020 – is used to describe an entity that does not disclose from where it receives funding.
The Silicon Valley Community Fund’s past donors include Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, left, and former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey, right
Speaking to Fox News Friday, the outlet to first report the donation, the executive director for Dignity and Power Now asserted that the transaction was not ‘dark’ and that it was available for the public to see.
‘There is nothing “dark” or non-transparent about money Fox was so easily able to identify the source and documentation for,’ Mark-Anthony Clayton-Johnson told the outlet
‘When we choose to accept philanthropic dollars, it is grounded in the commitment and reality that we move resources directly towards improving the lives of Black and Brown communities whom we serve and are accountable to,’ he continued. ‘Our impact and work speaks for itself and we are proud to continue doing it.’
‘If what you publish contains falsehoods and distortions, we will respond accordingly,’ Clayton-Jonnson said.
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