{"id":47547,"date":"2020-08-16T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-lives-matter-groups-are-multiplying-and-competing-for-donations\/"},"modified":"2020-08-16T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:03:00","slug":"black-lives-matter-groups-are-multiplying-and-competing-for-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-lives-matter-groups-are-multiplying-and-competing-for-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black Lives Matter groups are multiplying \u2014 and competing for donations"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Black Lives Matter groups are multiplying \u2014 and competing for donations<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked an outpouring of more than $1 billion in corporate giving \u2014 and launched a wild scramble for the cash among a dozen BLM groups scattered across the country.<\/p>\n

Some are for-profit, some are nonprofit but all are positioned to claim big bucks in corporate pledges from companies such as Bank of America, Walmart and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four are already in trouble with the IRS, according to public records.<\/p>\n

They show that BLM charities in New York, Vermont, Florida and South Carolina have had their nonprofit status revoked by the IRS for failing to file annual returns.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also confusion among the groups, along with a lack of transparency, which is alarming watchdogs.<\/p>\n

Robert Ray Barnes, a music producer from California, incorporated the Black Lives Matter Foundation in California in May 2015, more than a year before BLM Global Network \u2014 the self-styled leader of the movement \u2014 was founded as a for-profit firm in Delaware, records show.<\/p>\n

Some donors got the two mixed up.<\/p>\n

Barnes, 67, who started his shoe-string outfit after a friend was gunned down by Los Angeles police in 2011, runs it from his home Santa Clarita. He\u2019s the only employee.<\/p>\n

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Robert Ray Barnes<\/span>Caleb Lunetta\/The Signal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He paid himself $24,000 to run the organization in 2017, the latest tax filings show. The charity took in $279,109 in 2017, and spent $189,000 on homeless services and producing a rap video to raise awareness of police violence in the black community.<\/p>\n

But Barnes, who ended up marrying his friend\u2019s widow and raising her two young children, nearly ended up with millions because some who wanted to give thought his organization was the nationally recognized Global Network.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat app<\/a>ears to have happened to me is that when people searched for Black Lives Matter, the Global Network didn\u2019t return anyone\u2019s calls,\u201d Barnes told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they thought I was the main group because I return all calls to my charity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers at Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox and Google halted their plans to give more than $4 million to Barnes\u2019 group through online charity platforms last month after BuzzFeed reported the nonprofit did not represent the wider Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n

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Black Lives Matter protesters carrying banners march on the West Side Highway in Manhattan.<\/span>Stefan Jeremiah<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Barnes\u2019s foundation got a further slap on the wrist weeks ago when New York\u2019s Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James demanded the group \u201ccease solicitation\u201d of New York donations because it had not registered as a charity in the state.<\/p>\n

Barnes told The Post he had never asked for donations in New York. He said he now plans to fill out the necessary documents to register here.<\/p>\n

Exactly how much BLM Global Network raises or spends \u2014 or pays its executives \u2014 is unknown because for-profits are not required to disclose such data, as nonprofits are.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not to be confused with BLM Global Network Foundation, which was incorporated as a charity in 2017 but it does not have a federal tax exemption, records show.<\/p>\n

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Patrisse Cullors and Kailee Scales<\/span>Cassidy Sparrow\/Getty Images for Black Lives Matter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Founded by activists Patrisse Cullors and Kailee Scales, the Oakland, Calif.-based BLM Global Network Foundation claims to have chapters throughout the US, UK and Canada, and a mission \u201cto eradicate White supremacy and build power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sells a host of merchandise, including T-shirts, masks and mugs, claiming that unspecified proceeds help fund the movement.<\/p>\n

Donations go through ActBlue Charities, an online fundraising platform that also collects money for progressive causes linked to the Democratic super PAC ActBlue.<\/p>\n

In 2019, ActBlue raised more than $1 billion in online funds for Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the ActBlue charity does with that [the Black Lives Matter] money is not entirely clear,\u201d said Lloyd Mayer, an expert on nonprofit law at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s Law School.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrangement is not transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for ActBlue Charities said the group passes along contributions \u201cdirectly to the receiving campaign or group.\u201d Its website says that \u201cYour contribution will benefit Black Lives Matter Support Fund at Tides Foundation,\u201d a nonprofit that administers cash for other charities.<\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has said that it also works in conjunction with Thousand Currents, another nonprofit that helps grassroots organizations administer their donations.<\/p>\n

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New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/span>David McGlynn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Neither Thousand Currents nor BLM Global Network returned The Post\u2019s calls or emails.<\/p>\n

Experts say it\u2019s not uncommon for fundraisers to set up for-profit companies that are not limited in what they can do, like charities are. But in order to raise money, the for-profit company must partner with a nonprofit.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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