BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors chairs 'dark money' non-profit that received $2.5m from woke Silicon Valley fund whose previous donors include Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey A 'dark money' nonprofit run by one of Black Lives Matter 's founders received $2.5mil in donations from a Silicon Valley foundation in 2020, tax filings show Tax forms show that Dignity and Power Now - an LA-based agency headed by BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors - secured $4.2mil in donations in 2020 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,' received $2.1 billion in contributions in 2020 alone
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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.
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