'Unethical': BLM has $60M on hand — but who controls it is unclear, report shows

[Sugar Cookie]

With $60 million on hand, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s coffers are overflowing — but it’s unclear who controls all that money, according to a report.

The organization’s executive director stepped down just months after the nonprofit declared it had raised over $90 million, and in the year since, there’s been no one at the helm, according to a Washington Examiner investigation.

“Black Lives Matter” became a rallying cry in the wake of several high-profile killings of black Americans at the hands of police. In 2015, a network of chapters was formed, as support and donations poured in. But critics say the BLM Global Network Foundation has increasingly moved away from being a black organizing network and has become a philanthropic and political organization run without democratic input.

BLMGNF raised over $90 million in 2020 alone, according to a February 2021 financial report published by the nonprofit. After accounting for expenses and grant disbursements, the organization said, it had $60 million on hand.

At the time, BLM said that it planned to focus on economic justice in the coming year, especially as it pertained to the pandemic’s impact on black communities, as well as grow an endowment to sustain the organization long-term.

“One of our biggest goals this year is taking the dollars we were able to raise in 2020 and building out the institution we’ve been trying to build for the last seven and a half years,” then-BLMGNF executive director Patrisse Kahn-Cullors told the Associated Press last year.

Soon after, The Post reported that Kahn-Cullors went on a real estate buying binge.

At the time, a spokesperson for BLMGNF said Kahn-Cullors’ compensation for her several years in the organization totaled $120,000.

The organization “cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of personal property by any employee or volunteer. Any insinuation or assertion to the contrary is categorically false,” the spokesperson said.

A month later, Kahn-Cullors announced she was stepping down from leadership of the organization and handing the reins over to two other activists, Makani Themba and Monifa Bandele.

Both told the Washington Examiner that they never took the job. Themba cited disagreements with the organization in a September Twitter post.

“We never actually started in the position, so we never received any detailed information,” Themba told the Examiner.

The organization’s leadership remains a question mark.

BLMGNF is incorporated in the state of Delaware, and was granted nonprofit status in December 2020, according to public records.

Publicly available tax filings for the group list Kailee Scales as the keeper of BLMGNF’s books. She could not be immediately reached by The Post at a number listed in the filings.

The Examiner reported that it paid a visit to the Los Angeles address listed on those same tax forms, and was told by a security guard that BLM had never had offices there.

Co-founded by Kahn-Cullors and Scales, among others, BLMGNF is but one of many organizations that use “BLM” or “Black Lives Matter” in their names.

Among its stated goals, the organization distributes grant money to so called “chapter” organizations — in 2020 BLMGNF said it distributed over $21 million to local non-profits aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement.

BLM has $60M on hand — but who controls it is unclear, report shows

With a reported $60 million on hand, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s coffers are overflowing — but, it’s unclear who controls all that money, according to report.

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Patrisse 'Big Pimpin' Cullors

Makani 'I Don't Fuck With These Hoes' Themba

Monifa Bandele

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Well the bottom two probably have the actual community at heart .. maybe totally wrong ..

 

[Sejanus]

Some nice coin in moral outrage these days.
Curious how it fell from 90 to 60 million.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Black Lives Matter transferred millions to a Canadian charity run by the wife of its co-founder to purchase a sprawling mansion that had once served as the headquarters of the Communist Party, public records show.

M4BJ, a Toronto-based non-profit set up by Janaya Khan and other Canadian activists, snagged the 10,000 square foot historic property for the equivalent of $6.3 million in cash in July 2021, according to Toronto property records viewed by The Post.

Khan is the wife of Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Foundation Network and a self-avowed Marxist.

She resigned from the group last year, a month after The Post revealed that she had spent $3.2 million on homes in Georgia and Los Angeles. Khan-Cullors vigorously denied that BLM donations were used to buy the homes.

The purchase of the Toronto property, named the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, came to light amid mounting concerns over the US activist group’s lack of transparency in its finances.

In Canada, the purchase was criticized by two senior members of the group who resigned earlier this month over the building’s funding.

“For BLM Canada to take money from BLM Global Network for a building without consulting the community was unethical,” tweeted Sarah Jama earlier this month. “For BLM Canada to refuse to answer questions from young black organizers goes against the spirit of movement building.”

The questions were raised as BLMGNF is going through its own internal turmoil as two activists who were put in place to manage the organization after Khan-Cullors’ resignation, abruptly left in September, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.

Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion

Black Lives Matter transferred millions to M4BJ — a Canadian charity run by the wife of its co-founder — to purchase a sprawling mansion, public records show.

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[Sejanus]

Con-artists

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Problem with America things are done on emotion and nothing more!

 

[Freyja]

I say that the money should be seized and given back to the taxpayers and to business owners who had their businesses vandalized or destroyed.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors — who resigned in the wake of a Post expose of her spending spree on lavish homes — is tied to several other fundraising organizations whose finances raise “potential red flags,” according to a new report.

One of the groups, Reform LA Jails, in 2019 collected more than $1.4 million, of which $205,000 went to a consulting company owned by Cullors and her spouse Janaya Khan, New York magazine said.

Another $211,000 was paid to Cullors’ pal Asha Bandele, who co-wrote her memoir, and about $86,000 was paid to an entertainment, clothing and consulting company called Trap Heals, which was started by Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’ child, according to the report.

Reform LA Jails also reportedly paid $270,000 to a consulting company run by its treasurer, Christman Bowers, who’s also known as Shalomya Bowers and has signed tax documents as the deputy executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, which reportedly has $60 million its coffers but no leader since Cullors quit under fire in May.

The Post exclusively reported on some of the spending last year in an article that revealed the massive contributions made to Cullors’ various groups by deep-pocketed donors linked to Facebook, Twitter and Netflix.

Bowers is also involved in at least three other groups that Cullors started or helped lead — including Dignity and Power Now, JusticeLA, and the Justice Teams Network — between which money has passed, New York said, citing official filings.

Jeffrey Tenenbaum, a nonprofit lawyer in Washington, DC, told the magazine that the various payments may have violated state and federal laws that prohibit self-dealing and transactions among related parties.

“The transactions at issue certainly raise eyebrows and potential red flags,” he said.

A California activist who claims Black Lives Matter “got rich” off grassroots organizers like himself is now raising questions about the group’s finances after it disclosed it had $60 million in its coffers.

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BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors tied to other groups with spending ‘red flags’: report

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is tied to several other fundraising organizations whose finances raise “potential red flags,” according to a new report.

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[Satanica]

File under government grifters who should be in jail. Cullors has been very blatant about it, too.

 

[Donut Whisperer]

Problem with America things are done on emotion and nothing more!

I never thought of it in those terms, but that is so true.

 

[cubby]

Con artists, all of them.

 

[VLGRDSPLY]

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keep it coming... oh and did everyone see the dude that tried throwing the moltov cocktail at the cops (during the mostly peaceful protest) but instead lit one of their own onfire got 10 years and I believe 250k in fines? a few other antifa guys have gotten jail terms etc too (many below guidlines) but still are FINALLY getting arrested etc - of course its not really out and on the news...

 

[Turd Fergusen]

BLM co-founder blasts standard financial disclosures as ‘triggering’ and ‘unsafe’​

As the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation comes under scrutiny over its purchase of a $5.8 million Los Angeles mansion, co-founder Patrisse Cullors blasted standard financial disclosure forms as “triggering” and “unsafe.”

“It is such a trip to hear the term ‘990,’” Cullors said during an event Friday, according to the Washington Examiner. She was referring to IRS Form 990, which charities are required to file every year to disclose their financial activities.

“I’m like, ugh. It’s, like, triggering,” she added, saying that she “actually did not know” what the form was before “all this happened.”

Cullors went on to claim filing the financial disclosure forms “doesn’t seem safe for us.”

“This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is literally being weaponized against us, against the people we work with,” Cullors said, seeming to allege that people within the BLM organization have been “attacked and scrutinized” for their financial activities.

“People’s morale in an organization is so important,” she said. “But if their organization and the people in it are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout. That leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma.”

Charitable organizations are required to release their 990 forms to the public upon request.

BLM co-founder blasts financial disclosures as ‘triggering’ and ‘unsafe’

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors blasted standard financial disclosure forms amid the organization coming under scrutiny for buying a $5.8 million mansion.

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[Satanica]

Bitch, if you want safe then follow the rules. Those financial disclosure forms are doing exactly what they're supposed to do and, in reality, every such organization should be scrutinzed and then attacked if improprieties are found like they were in your case. Frankly, I'M burned out that so many of these organizations are populated by grifters.

 

[DaveL]

Until someone actually steps up to the plate and files those financial disclosures, I won't believe they actually still have $60M on hand.

 

[Satanica]

Probably not, the way they're been spending it!

 

[Totemic]

Careful folks... she's a black lesbian. You criticize her too much and you will be canceled.

And of course the rules and disclosure forms are triggering! What a horrible phrase.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Tax filings reveal how BLM co-founder spent charity funds​

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her brother and child’s father eye-watering sums of cash for various services, according to tax documents filed with the IRS.

The co-founder’s brother, Paul Cullors, saw a cool sum of $840,000 hit his bank account for allegedly providing security services to the nonprofit organization, tax documents seen by The Post show.

Meanwhile, the organization paid a company owned by Damon Turner, with whom Cullors shares a child, almost $970,000 to help “produce live events” as well as other “creative services.”

On top of the controversy, BLM wrapped up its fiscal year — which runs from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021 — with a stunning $42 million in net assets.

The foundation had an operating budget of about $4 million, according to a board member.

More than $37 million was spent by the foundation on grants, real estate, and charter on private flights, according to the tax filings

Tax filings reveal how BLM co-founder spent charity funds

More than $37 million was spent by the foundation on grants, real estate, and charter on private flights, tax documents seen by The Post show.

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[Satanica]

Let's face it. The main efforts of BLM consisted of grifting (fund raising) and then giving the money away to relatives for "services provided". Pretty sweet deal, eh?

 

[Turd Fergusen]

BLM paid co-founder’s baby daddy nearly 5 times more than Trayvon Martin foundation​

Black Lives Matter paid the co-founder’s baby daddy almost five times the amount the group doled out to the Trayvon Martin Foundation — a charity honoring the black youth whose 2012 death spearheaded the movement.

Patrisse Cullors, the former executive director and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, paid a company owned by Damon Turner $969,459 for “live production, design and media,” according to the group’s latest filings to the IRS. Turner’s for-profit company, which sells $145 sweatshirts on its web site and solicits donations for “the movement,” received the second highest payout the group made in fiscal year 2020, which covers July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.

A rapper and artist, Turner is the father of Cullors’ young son, and runs a Los Angeles-based entertainment and clothing company called Trap Heals LLC. Turner has been on the receiving end of Cullors’ largesse in the past. In 2019, his company took in $63,500 from Reform LA Jails, a state political action committee controlled by Cullors, to work for criminal justice reform.

Meanwhile, BLMGNF paid $200,000 to the Florida-based Trayvon Martin Foundation, IRS filings show. The non-profit was set up by Trayvon Martin’s parents to “provide emotional and financial support to families who have lost a child to gun violence,” according to its website. Rage over the 17-year-old’s shooting death and the acquittal of the neighborhood watchman who claimed he shot the teen in self-defense, led to the birth of Black Lives Matter.

BLM paid co-founder’s baby daddy nearly 5 times more than Trayvon Martin foundation

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation paid nearly $1 million to a company owned by co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ baby daddy Damon Turner.

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[Sugar Cookie]

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors' brother is paid of the two highest salaries at the organization for being the head of the security team at the $6million BLM Los Angeles mansion bought with charity donations.

The former leader had said previously that her sister, mother, and brother were employed with the Black Lives Matter Foundation. But new financial filings last week revealed Paul Cullors is paid more than dozens of other employees at the severely scrutinized organization.

Although the May 11 filing, first reported by the Washington Examiner, does not reveal the exact amount Paul Cullors is paid yearly, it does state he is one of the two highest-compensated employees.

It is unclear whether Cullors is paid more, less, or the same, as the other highest-paid employee, BLM Operations Director Raymond Howard.

The organization will be required to disclose what employees it paid upwards of $100,000 in its 990 financial disclosure filing.

News that Patrisse Cullors's brother receives the greatest compensation at BLM comes on the heels of mounting criticism toward the doomed ex-leader of the organization.

'While my brother is the head of security, and my mom and sister did work at the property, there are also dozens of people who work in the organization that is black folks and are doing amazing work,' Cullors told the Associated Press last week.

After her resignation in May 2021, it has been revealed that BLM purchased a $6million lavish home in Los Angeles with charitable donations. Patrisse Cullors has also come under fire for receiving a $120,000 payment in 'consulting fees' by BLM.

Cullors has repeatedly denied claims that she took money from BLM for personal matters and has reiterated that all the purchases and transactions - including the lavish 6,500 square-foot Studio City property home - were legitimate.

'The idea that (the foundation) received millions of dollars and then I hid those dollars in my bank account is absolutely false,' Cullors said, calling those claims 'a false narrative.'

t has also come to light that Patrisse Cullors's ex-partner Damon Turner's art company, Trap Heals, was paid $150,000 for a November 2020 livestream of election night.

Meanwhile, Cullors told the Associated Press last week that she was paid $120,000 in 'consulting fees' by BLM, and claims she wanted to pay to hire the mansion for her son's birthday

Speaking to AP, Cullors said she intended to pay a fee to rent the property for her son's birthday.

Black Lives Matter has since confirmed that it had billed her - but it's unclear how much for, if she was charged the same rate as anyone else, and if she has since settled up the supposed debt.