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California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, along with her LLC, has collected a combined $3.7 million over the last decade from a nonprofit activist organization she founded. Corporations that receive millions of dollars from the California taxpayer are behind hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the nonprofit that Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife runs. [Daily Mail]
Siebel Newsom created a string of documentaries about gender, including Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Her nonprofit, The Representation Project, promotes her documentaries and engages in activism battling "intersectional gender stereotypes" and "harmful gender norms."
The nonprofit brings in between $1 million and $1.7 million a year in grants and donations, from which about $300,000 has been going directly to Siebel Newsom and her company.
The most recent IRS filings up to March 2024 show Siebel Newsom received a $150,000 salary from The Representation Project. Her company, Girls Club LLC, received another $150,000 from The Representation Project.
Siebel Newsom and her nonprofit colleagues earn above 95% more than workers at similarly sized nonprofits, according to an analysis conducted by the Daily Mail.
There are about 23,000 charities in the IRS database of nonprofits with revenues between $1 million and $2 million. The salary for the median executive at a nonprofit the size of Siebel Newsom's is $31,945.
In 2023-2024, Siebel Newsom and her LLC received $300,000 out of the $1,704,981 gross receipts. That year, The Representation Project paid a total of nearly $1 million in compensation and spent $153,691 on fundraising.
Including the money paid to Siebel Newsom and her LLC, the nonprofit paid a total of $581,942 to its executives in 2023-2024. By comparison, the median nonprofit of similar size paid its executives a total of $132,640, or less than a quarter of The Representation Project's total executive pay.
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