Dark Money Behemoth That Hosts BLM Foundation Received $16 Million in Government Grants

 

The dark money network that houses the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation

received nearly $16 million in taxpayer-funded grants last year, financial filings reveal.

 

The Tides Center, a California-based nonprofit incubator, reported the government

grants on its 2019 tax forms. It operates by acting as a fiscal sponsor to several

left-wing nonprofits, including the BLM Global Network Foundation, which has

advocated for abolishing the nuclear family and defunding the police. This

arrangement lets the nonprofits avoid disclosing their financial activity, and thus

makes it difficult to know where the taxpayer-funded cash ultimately ends up.

 

The center's 2019 windfall adds to the $170 million it has received in government

grants since 2001—grants that have drawn criticism from nonprofit watchdogs. Scott

Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, has called Tides as "liberal and

politically active as they come" and questioned whether American tax dollars should

be awarded to groups housed at such networks.

 

The new filings show that the center took in $155 million in anonymous contributions

on top of the $16 million in government grants it received in 2019, a $34 million

increase over its 2018 totals. It also cut nearly $20 million in grants to outside

groups, including the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability and the New

Venture Fund, a separate nonprofit incubator that is part of a $715 million secret

money network managed by Arabella Advisors.

 

The Tides Center was launched in 1996 as an offshoot of the Tides Foundation. It has

incubated numerous social justice, environmental, gun-control, and abortion-rights

groups. George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the William and Flora

Hewlett Foundation have all pushed funding through the network.

 

The Tides Center did not respond to a request for comment.

 

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Links in article:

 

Tides Center 2019 Public Disclosure PDF

http://www.tides.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Tides-Center-2019-Public-Disclosure.pdf

 

BLM Removes Website Language Blasting Nuclear Family Structure

https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/blm-removes-website-language-blasting-nuclear-family-structure/

 

Statement by Patrisse Cullors, Executive Director,

Black Lives Matter Global Network on the Attempted Murder of Jacob Blake

https://blacklivesmatter.com/statement-by-patrisse-cullors-executive-director-black-lives-matter-global-network-on-the-attempted-murder-of-jacob-blake/

 

Tides Center Funnels $170 Million in Taxpayer Money to Left Wing Groups

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/tides-center-funnels-170-million-in-taxpayer-money-to-left-wing-groups/

 

Democrats Dark Money Network Rakes in $715 Million to Bankroll Liberal Causes

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dem-dark-money-network-rakes-in-715-million-to-bankroll-liberal-causes/

 

Tides Foundation

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tides-foundation/