Black Lives Matter fell so far behind in disclosing its finances to the public that several liberal states barred it from raising funds in their jurisdictions in early 2022. The two activists who were supposed to replace her never took the job. A consulting firm owned by a Black Lives Matter board member Shalomyah Bowers, a close associate of Cullors, received $2,167,894 for providing management services for the charity.īlack Lives Matters’ troubles began when Cullors’s personal real estate purchases surfaced in April 2021. Black Lives Matter paid $969,459 to an art firm run by the father of Cullors’s only child, Damon Turner. Paul Cullors went on to purchase his own Los Angeles home for $637,000 in December 2020. Financial disclosures released in May 2022 revealed Black Lives Matter paid her brother, Paul Cullors, $840,993 for "professional security services," a sizable sum for the self-taught graffiti artist with no prior experience as a bodyguard. Not content with its budding American property empire, Black Lives Matter branched out to Canada, granting $8 million to its Canadian affiliate to finance the purchase of a Toronto mansion in July 2021 for $6.3 million.Ĭullors’s family and friends reaped benefits too. The charity secretly purchased a glitzy $6 million compound in Los Angeles in October 2020 with donor cash, which Cullors used to film videos of herself drinking wine and baking peach cobblers. Its founder, Patrisse Cullors, went on a cross-country real estate buying spree, snagging four properties in California and Georgia for a cool $3.2 million.
The Black Lives Matter charity used that windfall to accumulate property and spread wealth to leadership while it could. It’s a staggering decline from Black Lives Matter’s heyday in the summer of 2020, when it parlayed the nationwide unrest that followed George Floyd’s death into an $80 million financial bonanza.
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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised just $9.3 million in the fiscal year ending in June 2022-an 88 percent decrease from the year prior, according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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