IRS filings reveal that Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors redistributed millions of dollars donated to BLM to her family and friends.
Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, BLM witnessed a cascade of donations, receiving more than $90 million in 2020 alone.
The murky finances of BLM have attracted significant attention for some months as the racial justice group’s lack of transparency fueled calls for increased scrutiny.
Now charity tax documents show how BLM spent its funds over a one-year period.
As the Washington Examiner reports:
Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’s only child, raked in $969,459 from the embattled charity through his art firm, Trap Heals, BLM’s Form 990 disclosure shows. An LLC run by Cullors’s brother, Paul Cullors, received $840,993 for “professional security services.” Shalomyah Bowers, a member of the BLM board of directors and a close associate to Cullors, pulled in $2,167,894 to his company for consulting and management services. New Impact Partners, an LLC run by the sister of BLM operations director Raymond Howard, received $107,000 for “fundraising counsel activities.”
Cullors ultimately had exclusive control over how BLM spent its funds, as she was the only member of the charity’s board of directors from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, the time frame covered by the Form 990 disclosure.
BLM, like all charities, is required by law to make its 990 forms public when requested.
At a conference last month, Cullors called having to disclose BLM’s financial documents “triggering.”
In an interview with the Examiner, Tom Anderson, the director of the National Legal and Policy Center’s Government Integrity Project, said, “I’m sure people who donated, in some cases their rent money, to BLM didn’t expect millions of dollars going to family members and close associates of Patrisse Cullors while thousands of protests were taking place.”
The Examiner adds:
BLM even paid out $139,625 to its former executive director, Kailee Scales, despite the fact that she didn’t work for the charity during the time frame.
“Kailee Scales did not serve during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021,” BLM reported in its Form 990. “However, she did receive a severance payment for calendar year 2020 in the amount of $139,625. The terms and conditions of the arrangement are confidential.”
BLM also spent just shy of $6 million in donor cash on a mansion in Los Angeles.
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Why should anyone be surprised at this finding? That whole phony bunch is made up of criminals and those trying to get something for nothing. They were being paid to destroy as much of those cities as they could while they carried out their “peaceful protests”. It’s a shame that we have 13% of our population deciding what the rest of the 87% can say, do, or even think. Anyone that doesn’t play along with their line of thinking are branded as racists. They are the darlings of the left wing progressive and liberals and in their eyes can do no wrong. This country is sitting on a powder keg and is going to explode into that second civil/race war that people have been speaking about for years now. When it happens it will make that first one in the 1850’s look like a company picnic.
By God you didn’t miss one point! Hopefully the sheep will come out of their stupor soon. And make an effort to salvage what we have left of this country.
Brilliant comment. You said it all.
She is an outright crook and a fraud. She really deserves prison.
Nonprofits shave had to fill out the 990 form for a hundred years, but she said because she has to fill it out, the IRS is singling her out because she’s black. Not only is she arrogant beyond belief, but she also stupid beyond belief. Throw her into prison for a long, long time.
Nonprofits HAVE not SHAVE
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