Only 33% of the $90 million Black Lives Matter received went to charity

Only 33 percent of Black Lives Matter’s total $90 million donations made their way to charities, says a shocking new report.

The group handed out approximately $30 million between 2020 and 2022, during which time it raised $90 million in donations while promoting itself as the preeminent civil rights organization in the US.

Among the benefactors of BLM’s meager donations were friends and family of co-founder Patrisse Cullors, in particular her graffiti artist brother, Paul, who received $1.7 million in salary and contracts during that period.

Cullors’ brother served on BLM’s board of directors and received a salary of just under $140,000, while his company, Black Ties Security, received more than $750,000 from the group for “security services,” reports the New York Post.

A year earlier, his company, Cullors Security LLC, received $841,000 for services.

In 2021, he paid $637,000 for a home in suburban Los Angeles.

Among the causes contributed to by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, based in Oakland, were pro-black and trans causes and anti-police efforts, according to the Post’s report. The paper said the total amount donated was $30,498,722.

Of that $30.4 million, $4.5 million went to nonprofits led by well-known BLM supporters and partners. Despite the huge donations, BLM posted a loss of $8.5 million for 2021.

One group that received a grant was the Tamir Rice Foundation, named after the 12-year-old boy from Cleveland who was shot to death in 2014 by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white police officer.

The foundation, led by Rice’s mother, has been critical of Black Lives Matter in the past. “They’re taking advantage of the blood of our loved ones and they won’t even talk to us,” Samaria Rice told the Post in 2021.

BLM’s largest grant went to the Love Not Blood campaign, a group founded by Cephus Johnson after the death by an Oakland police officer of his cousin Oscar Grant in 2009.

Grant was played by Michael B. Jordan in the award-winning film Fruitvale Station, which chronicles the filming.

Other recipients included the Trans Justice Housing Project in Atlanta, which received $200,000, the same amount was given to the Reuniting African Descendants group while the Michael Brown Chosen for Change Foundation received nearly $300,000.

That foundation’s nonprofit status was stripped by the IRS for failing to provide proper returns.

Brown’s 2014 shooting to death in Ferguson, Missouri, at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson sparked national outrage.

The Post report indicates that donations to BLM fell by $67 million from $76 million to just $9.2 million between 2020 and 2021.

It was reported on Friday that Patrisse Cullors has been quietly let go of her Warner Bros TV deal after failing to produce any content.

The BLM activist posted a message on Instagram a few days ago accusing the media of “lying” about her.

“For the past 2.5 years I have been relentlessly attacked by the media. So many lies and so much misinformation. They are determined to destroy my life,” she wrote. “Even though I haven’t been with BLM since 2021, my face is still used to spread so many untruths. I am exhausted and daily fear for my life. The worst part is that so many people have just remained silent.

“Many have not and I am grateful to those who have helped fight the dangerous lies. But all of you. I don’t know how much more of this I can take.’

Cullors became a co-founder of BLM in 2013 before stepping down in 2021. The movement began ten years ago in the courtyard of her Los Angeles home.

Now Black Lives Matter’s national organization is on the verge of bankruptcy after its finances plunged $8.5 million into the red last year — while handing out multiple seven-figure salaries to its staff at the same time.

Financial disclosures obtained by The Washington Free Beacon show the perilous state of BLM’s Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020 as a more formal way to structure the civil rights movement.

But despite the financial controversy and scrutiny, BLM GNF continued to hire Cullors family members and several board members.

For the previous year, 2021, tax returns showed that BLM paid a company owned by Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’ child, nearly $970,000 to help “produce live events” and provide other “creative services.” to deliver.

“While Patrisse Cullors was forced to resign over allegations of using BLM’s funds for personal use, it appears she still keeps it all in the family,” said Paul Kamenar, an attorney for the National Legal and Policy Center- watchdog group.

A consulting firm led by BLM board member Shalomyah Bowers received $2.1 million for providing operational support to the organization. Bowers said the last BLM board approved the contract with his company when he was not a board member.

The filing also revealed that Cullors had reimbursed BLM $73,000 for a charter flight and paid the foundation $390 for private use of his $6 million Los Angeles mansion.

Bowers, who took over from Cullors when she stepped down, also benefited heavily from the group: In 2022, his consulting firm will receive $1.7 million for management and advisory services, the Free Beacon reported.

And the sister of former Black Lives Matter board member Raymond Howard was also employed in a lucrative consultant role.

Danielle Edwards’ company, New Impact Partners, received $1.1 million in 2022 for advisory services, according to the Free Beacon.

BLM GNF also agreed to pay an additional $600,000 to the consulting firm of an unknown former board member “in connection with a contract dispute.”

The nonprofit ran an $8.5 million shortfall and its investment accounts fell in value by nearly $10 million in its most recent fiscal year, financial disclosures show.

The group posted a $961,000 loss on a $172,000 securities sale, suggesting the group suffered an 85 percent loss on the transaction. Further details of that protection have not been shared.

And the money flowing into BLM’s coffers has dropped dramatically.

Donations fell 88 percent between 2021 and 2022, from $77 million to just $9.3 million for the most recent financial year.

A year later, in May 2022, it was revealed that Black Lives Matter had spent more than $12 million on luxury properties in Los Angeles and Toronto — including a $6.3 million, 10,000-square-foot property in Canada that was purchased as part of an $8 million “out-of-country grant.”

The Toronto property was purchased with grant money intended for “activities to educate and support black communities, and to purchase and renovate property for charitable use.”

The group had said it intended to use the property as its Canada headquarters, and it has now been renamed the Wilseed Center for Arts and Activism.