Data & Digs
Tracing the threads and connecting the dots on BLM: organization, funding, roots & ideology, methodology, connections to other orgs, etc.
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From an article posted earlier:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/top-black-lives-matter-activist-questions-millions-dollars-donations-going-no-one-knows/
>When you research the expenditures of the ActBlue PAC, all of their contributions are directly going to top DNC campaigns:
>But the question remains where is the money going to that is donated to Black Lives Matter. If the money goes to ActBlue Charities, then where does it go next? For example, where are headquarters for Black Lives Matter and what’s the address?
>In a list of tips for how to verify a charitable organization: https://www.charitiesnys.com/pdfs/OAG-COVID19-TipsforCharity.pdf – some of the basic questions should have answers that are usually readily available.
>What kind of organization is “Black Lives Matter”? (Non-profit, private, etc…) Where is the headquarters? What’s the address & phone number?
>Is it a registered non-profit in the US (501-c-3)? Is the organization on the IRS website? https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/ the group being donated to today? There is an entity labeled Black Lives Matter Foundation (EIN: 47-4143254). This entity last filed in 2017 with an individual by the name of Robert Barnes labeled as the head:
>Per our review Mr. Barnes is not listed on the BLM website. There is little information on this person online. So where does ActBlue send the donations for BLM? Are payments made and then funds defaulting back to ActBlue per its terms of service?
What I found -
ActBlue Expenditures 2020 cycle via Open Secrets https://archive.fo/eNitO
IRS.gov:
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=4403655&ein=474143254&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=47-4143254&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=Search&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=1&names=&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States
2017 990 form: LAST FILING
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/474143254_201712_990_2019022316123190.pdf
EIN: 47-4143254
19197 Golden Valley Rd. Santa Clarita, CA 91387
Robert Ray Barnes 17713 Innsbruck Point Ct., Santa Clarita, CA 91387
501(c)(3) Year of formation: 2015
Grants & Contributions: $279,109
Grants and similar amounts paid $9,150
Other Expenses $56,012
Total Expenses $89,162
Revenue Less Expenses $ 189,947
Total Assets - Beginning of Current Year: $16,207 End of Year: $206,154
Signature Date: 2018-11-12
Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, and Highest compensated Employees:
Robert Ray Barnes, President 25 hours/week Individual Trustee/Director, Officer Compensation $24,000
Anthony Coleman, Vice Pres, Dir 1 hour/week Individual Trustee/Director, Officer Compensation 0
Edward Pressley, Secretary, Dir 1 hour/week Individual Trustee/Director, Officer Compensation 0
Gregory Moore, Treasurer, Dir 1 hour/week Individual Trustee/Director, Officer Compensation 0
>>1094 (sb)
Robert Ray Barnes at that address.
Moar names. Phone #. Other addresses where he has lived.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Robert+Ray+Barnes+17713+Innsbruck+Point+Ct.%2C+Santa+Clarita%2C+CA+91387
then the https://www.truepeoplesearch.com link.
In my experience digging on all of a person's associates and every piece of numerical data (address, phone) associated with them often turns up clues. I might dig on him tomorrow, depends what's going on.
Says there are 6 people who share his phone number at that address. Must be a landline.
>>1097 (sb)
In the IRS filing, the address (from 2017 filing) is in a UPS store.
Barnes bought his home in Santa Clarita in 2015 (same year BLM was formed) for a cool $517,000.
On the CA registry, there's a different address:
https://www.ca-registry.com/C3790568-black-lives-matter-foundation
https://archive.fo/a5sI2
Black Lives Matter Foundation
Po Box 571633
Tarzana, CA 91357
Black Lives Matter Foundation is an entity registered at California with company number C3790568.
Company is incorporated on 22nd May 2015.
Current status of the company is Active.
Registered agent is Robert Ray Barnes,
5348 Newcastle Ave #124 Encino CA 91316
CONDO
C3790568 BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION
Registration Date: 05/22/2015
Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA
Entity Type: DOMESTIC NONPROFIT
Status: ACTIVE
Agent for Service of Process: ROBERT RAY BARNES
17713 INNSBRUCK POINT CT
CANYON COUNTRY CA 91387
Entity Address:
19197 GOLDEN VALLEY RD., 313
SANTA CLARITA CA 91387
Entity Mailing Address:
19197 GOLDEN VALLEY RD., 313
SANTA CLARITA CA 91387
A Statement of Information is due EVERY ODD-NUMBERED year beginning five months before and through the end of May.
SI-COMPLETE filing date 6/1/19
https://web.archive.org/web/20200613025640/https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=03790568-26333761
Listed Officers of Black Lives Matter Foundation:
Anthony Coleman
(may have a fb page, but I don't visit that site, plus it's a common name…)
They called him 'whitest black kid' and it sparked a racial awakening
Ardmore man takes to the streets to get word out about his book
By Brian Hickey September 20, 2017
https://www.phillyvoice.com/they-called-him-whitest-black-kid-and-it-sparked-a-racial-awakening/
https://archive.is/V9H1S
6-5-20 Lynn BLM Protest
Anthony Coleman chants "Black Lives Matter" as he marches through Lynn will fellow protesters rallying against police brutality and racism.
https://www.itemlive.com/2020/06/05/lynn-again-makes-a-peaceful-point/6_5_20_lynn_blm_protest_8/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200613030843/https://www.itemlive.com/2020/06/05/lynn-again-makes-a-peaceful-point/6_5_20_lynn_blm_protest_8/
Edward Pressley
NOTHING connecting him to BLM
Gregory Moore
Want to be an ally to your black friends? Here's a list of what (and what not) to do
Greg Moore, Arizona Republic Published 6:00 a.m. MT June 4, 2020
https://archive.is/3P02w
>>1111 (sb)
Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Tuesday, August 16, 2016
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/
https://archive.is/jzQMA
For all its talk of being a street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.
The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.
That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.
“The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America,” said the Borealis announcement.
In doing so, however, the foundations have aligned themselves with the staunch left-wing platform of the Movement for Black Lives, which unveiled a policy agenda shortly after the fund was announced accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state” guilty of “genocide.”
Released Aug. 1, the platform also calls for defunding police departments, race-based reparations, breaking, voting rights for illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a “universal basic income,” and free college for blacks.
As far as critics are concerned, the grab-bag platform combined with the staggering underwriting commitment offer more evidence that Black Lives Matter is being used as a conduit for left-wing politics as usual.
“It’s about time people woke up to the fact that big money is using people as pawns to stoke racial hatred and further their global agenda,” said the Federalist Papers Project’s C.E. Dyer.
Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said corporations and others may want to think twice about partnering with the Ford Foundation, the fifth-largest U.S. philanthropy with $12.4 billion in assets.
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>>1112 (sb)
“The Ford Foundation has traditionally been leftist, at least since the 1970s, on law-enforcement matters. So it’s not a huge surprise, but it’s certainly disappointing,” said Mr. Johnson. “I guess potential donors may want to look at the [Black Lives Matter] movement and see the damage, destruction and murders that they’ve left in their wake.”
For Black Lives Matter, the grant-making partnership isn’t risk free, lending legitimacy to the movement but also credence to those who say it has strayed from the concerns of black Americans calling for equal treatment at the hands of police.
“I think whoever’s in charge of vetting a grant like that didn’t do their homework,” said Mr. Johnson. “Or maybe this was already in the works before they realized what exactly they were dealing with before this platform came out—before it became more apparent that it’s become today’s Velcro for what the leftist-fringe movement desires.”
And that’s a shame, he said, “because instead of having a serious movement that might have been a basis for dialogue and improving relations in communities, especially communities of color, it’s kind of become in some ways a very violent movement, in some ways a very, very far-left [movement] with an almost statist agenda.”
Borealis and Ford did not return requests Wednesday asking for comment, but one of the newly launched fund’s partners, the Movement Strategy Center in Oakland, California, praised the foundations for bringing resources to “this transformative movement.”
“Ensuring that all Black Lives Matter, in this land and around the world, will require an infusion of assets into Black communities,” said the center in an Aug. 8 statement.
In their July 19 announcement, Ford Foundation program officers Brook Kelly-Green and Luna Yasui said that, “Now is the time to call for an end to state violence directed at communities of color.”
“And now is the time to advocate for investment in public services—including but not limited to police reform—together with education, health, and employment in communities for people that have historically had less opportunity and access to all those things,” they said. “These are the reasons we support the Movement for Black Lives.”
Ford and Borealis are hardly alone: They said the fund will “complement the important work” of charities including the Hill-Snowden Foundation, Solidaire, the NoVo Foundation, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, the Neighborhood Funders Group, anonymous donors, and others.
In addition to raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives, the Black-Led Movement Fund will collaborate with Benedict Consulting on “the organizational capacity building needs of a rapidly growing movement.”
Ford has locked horns over Israel before: In 2003, the foundation announced after years of criticism that it would not renew its funding for leftist causes through the New Israel Fund, according to Forward.
The Black Lives Matter movement exploded in August 2014 after an officer shot dead unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Since then, police shootings of black men have prompted rioting and protests in dozens of U.S. cities, as well as the deaths of eight officers in separate incidents this year at demonstrations in Baton Rouge and Dallas.
Mr. Johnson confirmed that his organization, an advocacy group for police, has no grant-making alliance with Ford.
“We don’t receive any funding from Ford. But yeah, thanks very much,” he said with a laugh.
Not that he wouldn’t take it. “Of course it would come in handy — look at what’s going on across this country with the attacks on police,” Mr. Johnson said. “We’re not looking for a handout from Ford, but it would be nice to see groups like that or George Soros try to give some nuts-and-bolts help for people who are hurting, instead of throwing money around on grand schemes.”
>>1113 (sb)
Black Lives Matter: Racist Provocation with Radical Roots
by James Simpson
September 21, 2016
https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/
https://archive.is/OrAR1
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. … We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us” – Vladimir Lenin
That quote from the Soviet Union’s first leader captures the entire essence of the Left’s strategy. No matter what the issue, no matter what the facts, the Left advances a relentless, hate-filled narrative that America is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed as soon as possible. The BLM movement is only the latest, but perhaps most dangerous variant on this subversive theme.
Communists use language and psychology as a weapon. Their constant vilification of enemies is a form of psychological warfare. It puts America and Americans on trial. The verdict is always guilty. Facts don’t matter because the Left does not want to resolve the problems they complain about. They use those problems to agitate and provoke, hoping conflict becomes unavoidable and thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their hatred is tactical.
Not all is well in BLMsphere, which goes to this point >>1118 (sb) perfectly.
Why Black Lives Matter: Cincinnati Is Changing Its Name
 March 28, 2018  blmc-newspost
http://blacklivescincy.com/home/2018/03/28/why-black-lives-matter-cincinnati-is-changing-its-name/
https://archive.vn/QdOxr
For well over three years we have recognized the stark difference in principles, politics and methods of functioning between our independent organization Black Lives Matter: Cincinnati (BLMC) and the national leadership of Black Lives Matter (BLM), the Movement for Black Lives network (M4BL), and other spin offs and creations of this sliver of the Black liberation movement. BLMC has never been a chapter of that organization or a partisan of its politics because, even at the onset of us establishing our name as BLMC, we recognized that our idea of the type of movement necessary to win black liberation was at odds with that national body and it’s directives.
We originally took the name, inspired by a rising movement for Black liberation, manifested through spontaneous actions breaking out after the killings of Mike Brown, Jr., and Trayvon Martin. People chanted “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” and “Black Lives Matter.” This was before any serious national structure and unified platform existed. We felt — in that context — we had the right to try to champion the name and give it the meaning worthy of the people it claims to support and defend.
Internally, we have agreed for some time that it is our duty to represent a different pole of attraction to the strategy and perspectives of BLM in Cincinnati and nationally. We debated, however, how and when to formally break with the name. Because WE (BLMC) have done real work under that name and did not want to surrender it to those we feel cannot and have no interest in building a revolutionary movement for Black liberation.
But we can no longer use or identify with the name Black Lives Matter — a rally cry that still has meaning, even if perverted by those pushing it as a brand. The depth and scope of betrayal of struggles against police brutality and the families fighting for their loved ones is too great. The continuous shift towards electoral and liberal Democratic Party politics and away from revolutionary ideas is too great. The consequences for Black, brown, and poor people are too great. The possibilities to build a truly independent movement on a national scale for Black liberation are too ripe.
BLM did not create or build this new grassroots movement against police brutality and racism; they capitalized off a nameless groundswell of resistance sweeping the nation, branded it as their own, and profited from the deaths of Black men and women around the country without seriously engaging, as a national formation, in getting justice for fighting families. All the while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars from high-end speaking engagements and donations from foundations that support the Black struggle (or want to co-opt it). They have gained access to high profile associations, including invitations to the White House and celebrity events; have been on magazine covers; are on the way to profiting as authors and subjects of books; and have accepted numerous awards and accolades as so-called founders of the movement — while families struggle, unassisted, to keep their fights going. So many people on the ground have shared a similar experience: when the reporters leave and the bright lights are gone, so are they (BLM).
There are a couple of individual groupings using the BLM name that are on a trajectory similar to ours and have carried out principled work. They are exceptions to an overall course charted by BLM national.
THE BETRAYALS
St. Louis
BLMC travelled to St. Louis and met numerous families and community fighters still pushing to get killer cops indicted, arrested and jailed. They have all told us the same story: people on the ground were mobilizing and making gains in the fight. They were mobilizing people in militant action against city and town administrations and the police. Then people from the organization now known as BLM, DeRay McKesson, Color of Change, Dream Defenders, and others descended upon St. Louis. They took media credit, pushed the BLM name and as a result, concessionary funds from the government as well as from those with money looking to make contributions for the fight all funneled into the coffers of BLM and local activists willing to cut deals against the interests and wishes of the people of St. Louis most affected by police murder.
No chapter of BLM existed in Ferguson. But the media carried and carries the lie that this broad collection of families and fighters exist under a BLM umbrella. They don’t. BLM is a small fraction in a larger pie of the Black liberation movement, nationally. There are many organizations and individuals doing work with no affiliation to BLM and with many different names. All the powerful sacrifices of autonomous families and groupings around the country are continuously attributed to works of BLM.
Grassroots leaders of the struggle in St. Louis, including Darren Seals, have been assassinated by what many believe to be police forces. Multiple people have been shot in the head and burned in their cars with high-grade accelerants over the past 3 years and BLM has not uttered a peep in their defense or called for a special investigation. Several of these slain activists spoke out about the treachery of BLM and McKesson and some of the deals being cut behind closed doors.
Cleveland
Before the trip to St. Louis, in the summer and fall of 2015, BLMC attempted to work with the Rice family (from a distance) to build momentum for the fight to jail the cops that killed Tamir Rice. Samaria Rice’s sheer will to get justice inspired tens of thousands across the country.
More at link
Well, the numbers just keep going up! I was wondering how to find out how this was calculated…
Corporate America pledges $1.7 billion to BLM
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61533
https://archive.vn/ElYtN
Which took the info from here:
BLACK LIVES MATTER: CORPORATE AMERICA HAS PLEDGED $1.678 BILLION SO FAR
by William Michael CunninghamJune 10, 2020
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-lives-matter-corporate-america-has-pledged-1-678-billion-so-far
which for some strange reason redirects to this web address:
https://www.blackenterprise.com/hairstylists-are-saying-social-distancing-is-crushing-their-industry/
but nevertheless is archived:
https://archive.fo/nKk98
They republished what was a newsletter article from https://www.creativeinvest.com/
The footer on the newsletter article says:
>Creative Investment has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for the development of a tracker. To donate to our effort, please contribute at paypal.me/cirm. To get a copy of our BLM response database, send an email to info@creativeinvest.com.
>>1146 I cannot find anything regarding Israel on their website at all.