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Did someone say BLM was a progressive non-profit that cares about black lives and stuff?

‘Social justice pays well’: BLM leader ripped for ‘buying $1.4 million Los Angeles home’ in predominantly white neighborhood



Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real-estate buying binge
Black Lives Matter co-founder buys four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone

BLM is a political movement and some finger puppets were smart enough to profit off of it. Apparently not smart enough to use a shell Corp to hide from their marks.....

SUCKERS

Charity? We're calling it a charity now? What other charity organization do you know of that encourages looting?

"A lot of people are really attacking our pages. They’re like, ‘Oh, you support the looters.’ And yeah, we do, 100%."
Black Lives Matter organizer Ariel Atkins.

https://www.wbez.org/stories/winning-has-come-through-revolts-a-black-lives-matter-activist-on-why-she-supports-looting/398d0f3f-73d0-4f2e-ae32-04cceba0d322

People donated millions of dollars to the wrong Black Lives Matter foundation — read this before you give to any charity

Published: July 6, 2020
NPR
By Leslie Albrecht
One tip for steering clear of name confusion: Find out a charity’s employer identification number before you donate

Many Americans have been inspired to donate money to the Black Lives Matter movement — but donors should make sure they’re giving to a group that will use their money they way they intended. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty I

Americans who were moved to fight for racial justice after George Floyd’s killing by police donated millions of dollars to the wrong Black Lives Matter foundation — a cautionary tale for anyone who gives money to charity.

Donors tried to send an estimated $4.35 million to a California-based nonprofit called the Black Lives Matter Foundation, BuzzFeed News reported, but it has no connection with the Black Lives Matter social justice movement. Most of the money didn’t end up at the Black Lives Matter Foundation, because officials at companies involved in raising the cash realized the mistake and froze the funding.

The incident shines a light on the growing role that third-party companies play in collecting and distributing the roughly $300 billion that individual Americans give to charity every year. It’s also a reminder that it pays to do your own research about any organization you want to give money to, especially if you’re donating through online fundraising platforms or employee-matching programs.

“This unfortunate scenario demonstrates the importance of donor diligence,” said Yael Fuchs, president of the National Association of State Charity Officials. She added, “Many online platforms only require that entities raising money prove that they have 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, but having (c)(3) status does not mean that the organization is legitimate or well run.”

Before you click on that donate button, here’s how to avoid sending your money to the wrong group.

What happened: How money got donated to the wrong Black Lives Matter group
Donors sent money to the Black Lives Matter Foundation through employee-matching donation programs at their jobs and through third-party fundraising platforms including GoFundMe and the PayPal Giving Fund. This happened because the foundation showed up when users searched those platforms for “Black Lives Matter.”

But as its founder explained to BuzzFeed, despite the similar names, the Black Lives Matter Foundation has no affiliation with the Black Lives Matter social justice movement founded in 2013 by three community organizers. (The movement is not a tax-exempt nonprofit, so it accepts donations through a fiscal sponsor called Thousand Currents.)

Employees at Apple AAPL, +2.02%, Google GOOG, +0.90%, Microsoft MSFT, +1.03% and Dropbox DBX, -2.53% tried to send donations to the Black Lives Matter Foundation through gift-matching programs run by Benevity, a company that manages employee giving and other social responsibility functions for companies, including MarketWatch’s parent company, News Corp NWSA, -0.15%.

None of the money those employees donated to the Black Lives Matter Foundation actually ended up with the foundation, according to Apple, Google, and Microsoft. (Dropbox did not respond to a request for comment.) All told, employees at about 200 of Benevity’s 650 client companies donated to the Black Lives Matter Foundation through its platform, said Benevity founder and executive chair, Bryan de Lottinville.

‘This unfortunate scenario demonstrates the importance of donor diligence.’— Yael Fuchs, president of the National Association of State Charity Officials. After discovering that donors were sending money to a group that wasn’t affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, and after further investigation revealed that the foundation was not in good standing with state authorities in California, where it is based, Benevity did not release any of the donations to the foundation, de Lottinville told MarketWatch. (Benevity has since “deactivated” the foundation on its platform and added a note to its profile explaining that the foundation is not related to the movement.)

Other donations to the Black Lives Matter Foundation were made by individuals who gave money to fundraisers on GoFundMe. Users launched 180 campaigns that raised some $350,000 for the Black Lives Matter Foundation, a GoFundMe spokesman said. GoFundMe listed the foundation on its platform because it was in a database operated by its partner, the PayPal PYPL, +0.86% Giving Fund. GoFundMe and PayPal are working to redirect the donations, spokespeople for the companies said.

Watch out for sound-alike names
There have been attempts to trademark the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” but no one owns it, which means it can end up in the hands of people who aren’t affiliated with the official group, a decentralized global movement with 22 chapters across the country.

The Black Lives Matter Foundation doesn’t appear to have been intentionally deceiving anyone. The foundation was established as a legitimate nonprofit by a Black man who told BuzzFeed his wife’s ex-husband was allegedly killed by the police. The founder also noted that his goals differ from the movement’s goals. His group’s mission is to unify the police and the community, while the movement advocates for defunding the police. (The foundation’s founder could not be reached for comment.)

In the corporate world, one company wouldn’t be able to incorporate using another’s name, de Lottinville noted. But social movements — like MeToo, for example — often have no defined ownership.

“Many social justice organizations choose not to incorporate or otherwise adopt more traditional leadership structures,” said Fuchs, who is also co-chief of the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s charities bureau enforcement section. “We understand the desire to run a movement in an innovative, non-hierarchical way, but this does leave the door open for fraudsters or other opportunists to claim popular names and may limit protections that are available to the legitimate entity.”

Scammers often use sound-alike names to get donors to open their wallets. Dozens of fake charities were busted in 2018 after using names similar to legitimate groups helping military veterans. Similar frauds have happened with cancer charities.

One tip for steering clear of name confusion: Find out a charity’s EIN (employer identification number) before you donate. No two charities have the same one, and donors can use the number to verify whether a charity is legit.

Is the charity is in good standing with the IRS and state authorities?
If you want your donation to be tax deductible, the group you’re giving to has to be a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the IRS. You can check the IRS website to make sure a nonprofit is in good standing. But donors should also check with authorities in the state where the charity is based. Most state attorneys general have easily searchable databases where donors can check a charity’s status. If you don’t know who your state charity regulator is, you can find it on the National Association of State Charity Officials site.

If donors to the Black Lives Matter Foundation had typed its name into the California Attorney General’s charity verification tool, they would have seen that state authorities had issued a cease and desist letter to the foundation because it had not registered with the attorney general’s office, yet was soliciting donations, said Tania Ibanez, senior assistant attorney general in charge of the charitable trust section of the California Attorney General’s Office.

There is pending legislation in the California State Assembly that would require third-party platforms like GoFundMe, PayPal, and Benevity to vet the status of charities in California before listing them on their platforms, Ibanez noted.

Look at the charity’s own website before you donate
When donors come across a charity on a third-party fundraising platform or on a friend’s social media feed, where it’s common for people to ask for donations in lieu of birthday presents, it’s easy to quickly click donate, especially when it’s a cause that’s been in the news lately.

Third-party fundraising platforms like Benevity, GoFundMe or PayPal Giving Fund typically have blurbs describing the charities that are listed on their sites. But before deciding whether to donate, donors should hit pause and visit the charity’s own website. (The Black Lives Matter Foundation, for example, doesn’t have its own website.)

“My general counsel would be to slow down and take time to look at a website — and the mission statement in particular — and, if possible, check the list of donors on the website,” said Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy and author of “Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count.” A charity’s website should clearly explain its mission and accomplishments. You can also look to see who is on the group’s board of directors. “Make sure it all makes sense,” Buchanan said.

However, even rating sites don’t always give a complete picture. The Black Lives Matter Foundation was listed on CharityNavigator, for example. because it was a registered 501(c)(3) organization, but the foundation had no rating, a CharityNavigator spokesman noted. CharityNavigator has now updated the entry with a “moderate concern” advisory.

There’s no national database of complaints against charities. But donors can do a little digging by Googling the group’s name with words like “fraud,” “lawsuits,” or “complaints” to see if any news stories come up. Don’t forget to click past the first page of results.

Ask the organization what it will do with your money. A nonprofit should be able to say what it does with donations. If it can’t, that’s a red flag.

“The nonprofit should also provide visibility into how the nonprofit operates,” said Kevin Scally, spokesman for Charity Navigator. “Are they an advocacy organization? Do they provide direct services? Do donations fund research? Legitimate organizations should make the answer to these questions very clear.”

Donors can see details of how an organization spends money — including salaries for executive directors — on Form 990s, which all nonprofits are required to file. Legitimate 501(c)(3) charities should file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service annually, Scally noted. “If they have not done so, for example, if the organization was something recently formed and you are having difficulty finding information on it, err on the side of caution,” he said.

You don’t have direct control over your money
Third-party platforms make donating to charities easier than ever. They function as online directories where people can quickly look up causes they’re interested in supporting. They’re fast and convenient, and help get exposure for charities that may not have big marketing budgets.

But because third-party platforms are essentially middlemen between donors and their money, there are caveats. Some of these platforms charge nonprofits fees to appear on their sites. Platforms have been known to go out of business, leaving donations undistributed to charities. Sometimes there’s a delay between when a donor makes a donation and the nonprofit receives that money.

Generally when donors give money to a charity through these platforms, their donation doesn’t go directly to the charity. Typically it first goes to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that’s run by the platform, which then gives the money to the charity.

That loss of control comes with pros and cons. The buffer between donor and charity worked well in this case, said Benevity’s de Lottinville, because it prevented money from ending up with the wrong group. Benevity only lists charities that are in good standing with the IRS, and before it distributes funds to charities, it does another round of vetting.

During that round, Benevity discovered the California cease and desist letter, de Lottinville said, and also realized that the Black Lives Matter Foundation wasn’t affiliated with the movement. “It’s unfortunate, but this is exactly what we’re set up to do, is help protect our corporate client and our donors,” he told MarketWatch.

Likewise, GoFundMe donors are protected by a guarantee that their money will go to the intended recipients and allows for refunds in some cases. Donors to the PayPal Giving Fund are advised that if their donation can’t be sent to their chosen charity, PayPal will “reassign” the funds and “whenever possible will consult with you on the reassignment.”

He said he doesn’t know exactly how much money Benevity has helped raise for racial-justice groups in the past month, but estimated that it’s “probably in the $100 million range.”

The roughly $4 million that donors tried to send to the Black Lives Matter Foundation through Benevity “sounds like a big number,” de Lottinville said, “but in the context of the total giving through the platform to these issues, it was actually relatively small.”

Rt.com? Really? No wonder no one takes you seriously.

I’m sure Putin appreciates your servility.

Did you expect me to go to ther New York Times or CNN?
I don't know...did they even report on this? I mean they were propagandists and great fund raisers for BLM.

Russia! Russia! Russia! It's not my fault that RT's reporting is better than the U.S. Commie Progressive news outlets many times.
Don't kill the messenger. Putin is probably laughing his a$$ off at what suckers many American are to fall for these Marxist scams. .

What about the distinction between Black Lives Matter Foundation and the black lives matter social protest movement?

All I know is it's the BLM Marxist co-founder that is the issue at hand in the original post., you know that original bunch that wants to destroy the traditional family structure and capitalism. So if there are copy cat BLM's that are scamming for dollars too and it appears to be the case, that's a separate issue to look at. The only distinction may be which one is more rotten than the other.

I’m not sure I like this purchase. If she needs to go light Compton or South Central LA on fire you’re looking at easily an hour commute.

Some assembly required.

Jason Whitlock defiant after Twitter locks him out for criticizing BLM founder's ritzy home purchases

Sports columnist Jason Whitlock said Monday he would not comply with Twitter's demand to remove a tweet criticizing a Black Lives Matter co-founder's purchase of an expensive home after the social media giant locked Whitlock out of his account.

Whitlock, who is Black, took a dig at Patrisse Cullors on Friday after she reportedly bought a $1.4 million home in Topanga Canyon, a ritzy Los Angeles-area enclave where only 1.4% of residents are Black.

"She’s with her people!" Whitlock wrote sarcastically, with a link to a story about Cullors' purchase from celebrity blog site Dirt.com. Despite the story not including an address and despite the fact that other outlets had reported on Cullors' new home -- including The Grio and New York Post -- Whitlock was told Friday he had violated Twitter's rules against publishing private information.

"I'm still in Twitter jail because I won't post bail," he said in an interview on Curtis Scoon's YouTube channel. "I'm not sure if I'm going to post bail ... We did nothing wrong. I'm not running to go post Twitter bail when I did nothing wrong."

Whitlock said he posted his tweet because he found Cullors' conduct hypocritical, given her self-proclaimed Marxist beliefs and her apparent desire to live in a majority-White area in spite of the movement she founded.

Whitlock joked he couldn't delete the tweet to begin his 12-hour "sentence" anyway, since it had already been removed by the service. Whitlock hasn't tweeted since Friday and said he was going to wait and see how the story played out.

Cullors, who has called capitalism evil, has two other homes in the Los Angeles area and has reportedly bought four houses for $3.2 million in the past year.

"She's a grifter. That's what the f--- she is," Scoon said.

Whitlock, a longtime critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, said it was a "hustle" and its leaders are not "promoting anything real."

"I'm going to wallow in this victimhood like they like to do," he said.

Twitter did not respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Whitlock stands out in his field for his criticism of progressive athletes like LeBron James and the almost uniformly left-wing sports media world.

Formerly at Fox Sports, he joined the sports and commentary site OutKick last year but left in January over a business disagreement with founder Clay Travis.
Black Lives Matter's official Twitter account published a lengthy thread on Tuesday in defense of Cullors.

Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder, participates in the "Finding Justice" panel during the BET presentation at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, California.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has gone on a real-estate buying binge in recent years, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.

As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent.

The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles, according to a report. The 2,370-square-foot property features “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views. The Topanga Canyon homestead, which includes two houses on a quarter-acre, is just one of three homes Khan-Cullors owns in the Los Angeles area, public records show.

Some fellow activists were taken aback by the real estate revelations.

Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, which is not affiliated with Khan-Cullors’ Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, called for “an independent investigation” to find out how the global network spends its money.

“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he said. “It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”

Last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a “custom ranch” on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot “paved/grass” community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.

The three-bedroom, two-bath house, about 30 minutes from Atlanta, has an indoor swimming pool and a separate “RV shop” that can accommodate the repair of a mobile home or small aircraft, according to the real estate listing.

The Peach State retreat was purchased in January 2020 for $415,000, two years after the publication of Khan-Cullors’ best-selling memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”

In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.

It is not known how much Khan-Cullors received in compensation in either deal.

Khan-Cullors began her buying spree in LA in 2016, a few years after the civil rights movement she started from a hashtag — #blacklivesmatter — with fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi began to gain traction around the world.

That year, she bought a three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom home in Inglewood for $510,000. It is now worth nearly $800,000. Khan-Cullors added her wife, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada, to the deed in a family trust last year. The couple married in 2016.

Khan-Cullors' home in Inglewood, Calif., is now worth $800,000.


Two years later, in 2018, Khan-Cullors purchased a four-bedroom home in South Los Angeles, a multi-ethnic neighborhood. Khan-Cullors paid $590,000 for the 1,725-square-foot home, although the price has since climbed to $720,000, according to public records.

Three of the homes were bought in Khan-Cullors’ name, and the Topanga Canyon property was purchased under a limited liability company that she controls, according to public records cited by “Dirt,” the real estate blog that first reported the March 30 purchase.

Last year, Khan-Cullors and Khan were spotted in the Bahamas looking for a unit at the Albany, a real estate source who did not want to be identified told The Post. The elite enclave is laid out on “600 oceanside acres” and features a private marina and designer golf course. Current homes for sale include a nearly 8,000-square-foot, six-bedroom townhouse with a media room and marina views. The price is only available upon request, according to the resort’s website.

Khan-Cullors paid $590,000 for this South Los Angeles home.


“People who buy at the Albany are buying their fourth or fifth home,” said a resort worker who did not want to be identified. “This is not a second-home residence. It’s extremely high-end, and people are coming here for complete and total privacy.”

While it’s not clear if Khan-Cullors purchased a property at the island retreat for the super-rich, her mere interest shows just how far she has come from the hardscrabble Van Nuys neighborhood in LA where she spent her childhood with two brothers and a younger sister.

In her memoir, Khan-Cullors describes growing up in a housing project less than a mile from the affluent and largely white neighborhood of Sherman Oaks, a community of wide lawns and pools where “there is nothing that does not appear beautiful and well kept.” The four kids were mostly raised by her single mother, who worked 16 hours a day to support the family, she writes. Albany, a new planned community in the Bahamas. The Albany residence Khan-Cullors reportedly looked at is on 600 oceanside acres.

Growing up, Khan-Cullors lived in “a two-story, tan-colored building where the paint is peeling and where there is a gate that does not close properly and an intercom system that never works,” she writes. “The only place in my hood to buy groceries is a 7-Eleven.”

Khan-Cullors embraced activism and Marxism at a young age. “It started the year I turned twelve,” she writes. “That was the year that I learned that being black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.”

But she didn’t rise to national prominence until 2013, when she and two other activists protested the not-guilty verdict against George Zimmerman, who shot dead Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager in Florida.

Donations and pledges from corporations and individuals poured into the movement at that point. In February, the BLM nonprofit co-founded by Khan-Cullors told the AP that they took in $90 million in 2020, with $21.7 million committed to grant funding and helping 30 black-led groups across the country.

Black Lives Matter leaders would not specify how much money they took in from prominent donors, according to the AP report.

It’s also not clear how much Khan-Cullors makes in salary as one of the leaders of the movement, since its finances are split among both nonprofit and for-profit entities and difficult to trace.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors' Topanga Canyon property was bought under an LLC.


Founded by Khan-Cullors and another activist, Kailee Scales, the nonprofit Oakland, Calif.-based BLM Global Network Foundation was incorporated in 2017 and claims to have chapters throughout the US, the UK and Canada, and a mission “to eradicate White supremacy and build power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities.” The group does not have a federal tax exemption and donations are filtered through ActBlue Charities and Thousand Currents, two nonprofits that manage the cash.

At the same time Khan-Cullors incorporated the nonprofit, she also set up the similarly named BLM Global Network, a for-profit that is not required to disclose how much it spends or pays its executives.

Newsome of NYC’s BLM said, “We need black firms and black accountants to go in there and find out where the money is going.” He added that his group does not receive any financial support from the BLM Global Network.

Khan-Cullors did not return requests for comment, but on Monday, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation issued the following statement to The Post:

“Patrisse Cullors is the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF). She serves in this role in a volunteer capacity and does not receive a salary or benefits. Patrisse has received a total of $120,000 since the organization’s inception in 2013, for duties such as serving as spokesperson and engaging in political education work. Patrisse did not receive any compensation after 2019.

“To be abundantly clear, as a registered 501c3, BLMGNF 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.

“Patrisse’s work for Black people over the years has made her and others who align with the fight for Black liberation targets of racist violence. The narratives being spread about Patrisse have been generated by right-wing forces intent on reducing the support and influence of a movement that is larger than any one organization. This right-wing offensive not only puts Patrisse, her child and her loved ones in harm’s way, it also continues a tradition of terror by white supremacists against Black activists. All Black activists know the fear these malicious and serious actions are meant to instill: the fear of being silenced, the trauma of being targeted, the torture of feeling one’s family is exposed to danger just for speaking out against unjust systems. We have seen this tactic of terror time and again, but our movement will not be silenced.”



https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/



Anyone in here donate to her capitalistic property binge spending spree?

Well with home purchases comes the glut of spending...paint, flooring, upgrades, appliances, landscaping, furniture, decorating, window treatments...I'd say they're gonna be spending some cheddah... just like you and me.

Will BLM intervene in violence inflicted by blacks on Asians? Nope no, no, no. That doesn't fit the narrative, the wrong oppressed race doesn't bring in the CA$H from the wokies.

The only philanthropy a Marxist understands is false philanthropy, expropriation by theft, fraud or the force of government which usually includes the previous two..

I for one appreciate BLM talking about the biggest offender of crime and murder of blacks, and taking to task the culture that contributes to it....

That would be a very good thing...

I'm pretty sure ZRX1200 was referring to black on black crime, which BLM totally ignores.

Black on black crime....? Never heard of it.

If nothing else...

Patrice cullors has made a decent investment for BLM and it's future if the homes are in BLM corporation ownership?
Unless , the huts are her name...then she is really a TRUE CRIMINAL... STEALING DONated money for personnel gain and embezzlement...

Topped for jonesy.

Jerry Mathers?

I killed a black beaver, does his life mathers? My mistake it was a raccoon 🦝.

That would be a valid argument if that wasn't true for whites killing whites. The dilemma with you is you don't understand we don't pay civilians to serve and protect us we pay the police to serve and protect us. It's only crickets to you because you don't live in or visit these communities. There are protests every day inside these communities calling for the violence to stop. See you don't hear or see that because you don't put yourself in a position to do so you rather sit back in your bubble and have a pseudo care factor about the police. Which we all know you don't care about them either. Do me a favorite pick up a book, go outside, visit with people who don't look like you or your neighbors, or go volunteer somewhere inside a black community. Then come back and give your opinion.

He sounds like a liberal dissenter...

Living in the trenches ( bad neighborhood) with a better insight than most of us old fat white guys...getting drunk and smoking cigars...in the suburbs or da' country...

Welcome
Kmoore28 the dissenter...
And opposing view guy? Gal?

Are you volunteering to go with me to North Philly,on a Saturday night. If not f**k off, maybe in broad daylight in the south side of Chicago.